Testimonials

Julie Passalacqua

Dear Galina,

The Calendar this year is amazing, beautiful, poignant! Quite a transformation from needlework – I am always in awe. Thank you so much.

San Jose, California, USA

01.01.2024

Izabella Jaczynski

Dear Galina, 
Once again, thank you so much for your wishes and another wonderful calendar. I finally had time to read all the poems, admire pictures/paintings. It is nice that your granddaughters are continuing your " calendar tradition ". They are very talented and creative young artists and did a fantastic job. I am glad they included their picture too.

My favourite Alisa's works are:

• cover page - canvas of empty street in a big city
• August page - canvas, sea
• November page - wood, volcano

and Anna's are:

• January - wood, wet street in a big city
• May - canvas, sea
• July - canvas, flowers, very pretty and colorful.

They remind me of some of your Mom's artworks, which I suspect were inspiration for Anna

• September - canvas, very original

I liked all the poems, they do reflect the world between 1922 - 2022. A. Akhmatova's are my favorite and thanks to your calendars I got to enjoy samples of Russian poetry. I read English or Polish translations of Russian prose in past years but not poetry, so thank you my friend. And I think all paintings compliment the great poems.

Clearwater, Florida, USA

01.01.2024

Galina Bogdanova

Thank you all who made for a great calendar 2024!!!

Westwood, Massachusetts, USA

02.12.2023

Andrey Kneller

Received it today! Looks great! Thanks again to you and your girls!

Southborough, Massachusetts, USA

02.12.2023

Julie Passalacqua

Dear Galina,

“Among Enchanted Grasses” is a beautiful creation – you have an incredible team to work with! My favorite work is “The Birches”. The embroidery is exquisite, the stitches are breathtakingly perfect. She was such an artist!

San Jose, California, USA

14.12.2022

Izabella Jaczynski

Thank you very much for your wonderful calendar 2023. As always it is beautiful, special and again filled with pictures of your Mom's great art. I do love the combination of art and poems. I will read all English translations first and later will tackle reading them in their original language. And thanks to you I have the chance to improve my knowledge of Russian poetry at least a little.

Clearwater Beach, Florida, USA

11.12.2022

Julie Passalacoua

Dear Galina,

You mast be so proud of Anna and Alise – what an amazing calendar they created for 2022 – making you and their greatgrandmother proud to carry on this tradition through the genetations!

Always such a beautiful artistic creation! No translation needed.

Thank you. Best wishes for the happiest of new years.
Love, Julie

San Jose, California, USA

16.01.2022

Izabella Jaczinski

Dear Galina, 

Two days ago I received your big surprise: the 2022 calendar with art work of your granddaughters! It is beautiful, very colorful, modern and original and I like it a lot so thank you very much my dear friend. What talented girls they are and I am sure their parents and grandparents are very proud of their achievements and talents. It will take me a while to read all the poems in the calendar since my Russian is rather rustic these days but I will enjoy the challenge :-) Of course my favorite paintings are for March, June and I am sure you can guess why :-) Also May, August, January and February and all others are great art works too. 

Clearwater Beach, Florida, USA

29.12.2021

Marina Rivkina

Hello Galochka,

Thanks a lot for your present.  This is the my first NY present this your and it is very impressive.  May be this is a prediction for me - the year will be beautiful and full of common sense.

I like the compilation - everything follow the main idea, which have a role of a trunk and beautiful words and pictures are around like a branches with flowers.

I love your poems. They are great. 

I really wish "the new generation" have a "feeling" of what all of you presenting here.

My best congrats with coming  NY and best of luck and success in your creative work.

San Jose, California, USA

19.12.2021

Julie Passalacqua

Dear Galina,

Once again thank you! The 2021 calendar filled with your Mother’s needlework is exquisite. Can you guess that May with its beautiful hydrageneas and lilacs is my favorite. Olga’s admiration of your mother’s work shines through her poetry and helps us appreeciate the smallest details.

Another masterpiece you can be most proud of!
Love,

San Jose, California, USA

27.12.2020

Izabella Jaczynski

Dear Galina,

Thank you so much for your wishes and a wonderful calendar, Your Mom's embroidery is very special and beautiful. The flowers are so pretty and the poems complement her artwork. You have such great ideas every year that I am always anxious to see what theme for the calendar you pic each year.

Clearwater, Florida

27.12.2020

Marina Ryvkina

Galochka,

Thank you very much for this meeting with the BEAUTY, that you made for us with your present.

And beside this the wonderful relations, the kindness, remembrance, love and respect in your family - all this is such a positive feeling for all of us.

My best wishes to you and your family,

With respect,

San Jose, California

15.12.2020

Julie Passalacqua

Dearest Galina!
Congratulations on another amazing calendar. Thank you for taking me to Crimea through breathtaking air and exquisite poetry. This is such an evocative creation.

San Jose, California, USA

31.01.2020

Izabella Jaczinski

Once again, thank you for your gift of a lovely calendar for 2020. Your aunt had a great idea and is a wonderful artist. Crimea's scenery is spectacular and as always poetry that you choose compliments the pictures/art. I have several favourite ones e.g. May, June, July, September :-)

Clearwater Beach, Florida, USA

31.01.2020

Izabella Jaczinski

Thank you so very much for another lovely calendar, it arrived here yesterday. The scenery of Crimea is very pretty. I will view and read the calendar some more in the nearest future.

Clearwater Beach, Florida, USA

31.01.2020

Janet Maich

I’ll engoy the latest calendar!

Santa Clara, California, USA

20.01.2019

Julie Passalacqua

Dear Galina,

Another incredible calendar! Between your mother’s artwork and your granddaughter compiling the 2019 edition, you must be so proud. As I read the poetry, it made me realize how the seasons transition so differently in your homeland.

Thank you so much.

San Jose, California, USA

10.01.2019

Marina Ryvkina

Galiochka,

My best wishes to you and your love ones.
The most important in our lives is beauty. It makes is kinder, more optimistic, and many others "more....".
That is our forever present from your mom.
And i am very thankful to you, that you continue to share this gift with us.

Thank you. 

With sincere respect,

Palo Alto, California, CA

01.01.2019

Izabella Jaczynski

Dear Galina,

Thank you for your wishes, holiday card and wonderful calendar, which arrived here 2 days ago. What a great idea to commemorate Pushkin's 220 birthday anniversary. It is hard to believe that you are creating those calendars for over 10 years already. As the previous ones,  this one too presents your Mom's beautiful artwork, which is complimented with great poetry. These special calendars are truly wonderful gifts that I enjoy a lot.

Clearwater, Florida, USA

16.12.2018

Julie Passalacqua

Dearest Galina,

Once again thank you for exquisite 2018 calendar. The needlework so perfectly complements the poetry of Osip Mandelstam. Know that I will spend time each month lost in thought about each!

San Jose, California, USA

21.12.2017

Izabella

Dear Galina,

Your calendar arrived here on Saturday. As always, it is beautiful and thank you very much for such dear gift. Your Mom's art work is so special and beautiful. The verses of poet Osip Mandelstam complement your Mom's art so perfectly. One expresses his feelings and beauty in words the other in her embroideries. I do not know if your Mom has ever met the poet but to me they are artists/soulmates.

You select such great/perfect verses and poets to create wonderful calendars in memory of your Mom. 2018 calendar with one poet only but how perfectly his verses are matching your Mom's art. And the poems in original language and English translations allow me to understand them better and practice my Russian too :-) Thank you my friend. 

Clearwater Beach, Florida, USA

20.12.2017

Janet Maich

Dear Galina and Jacob,

Thanks again for another favorite calendar. What a lovely way to start a New Year!

Santa Clara, California, USA

04.01.2017

Dina and Igor Yevelev

Dear Galochka,

Thank you so much for the wonderful present!
We truly appreciate it.
You have created such the beautiful memories for your family!

G-d bless you, dorogaya.

Palo Alto, California, USA

28.12.2016

Julie Passalacqua

Dearest Galina,

Once again I am in love of your calendar. The beauty of the needlework accompanied poetry is a stunning artistic combination.

You must take such joy in each year’s creation!

San Jose, California, USA

28.12.2016

Izabella Jaczynski

Dear Galina,

Your calendar has arrived in C.B. this afternoon. Thank you so very much for your very special gift. Your Mom's artwork is beautiful as always and the poetic verses complement her art so well.

Clearwater Beach, Florida, USA

12.12.2016

Olga Selikhov

Galina privet! We've received calendars yesterday. Awesome craft and poetry!

Thank you very much from all of us!

Coventry, Connecticut, USA

10.12.2016

Julie Passalacqua

Dear Galina,
Once again, thank you so much for the 2016 calendar “The Land of Birch Tree”, filled with your Mother’s needlework and accompanying poetry. It is such an amazing work of art.

San Jose, California, USA

22.12.2015

Izabella Jaczynski

Dear Galina,

Thank you very much for your beautiful calendar, card and wishes. As in previous years, it is a tribute to your Mom's artistic talent and her beautiful creations. This year it has even a more important meaning than before. And how well you choose the poems that compliment her art so well with words. Thank you again my dear friend for sharing it with me too.

Lublin, Poland

19.12.2015

Julie Passalacqua

Dear Galina, Once again thank you for the beautiful Christmas gift. The 2014 Calendar with your Mother’s amazing needlework and accompanying poetry is? As always, not only an endeavor of love, but a piece of artwork.

16.01.2014

Izabella and Marek Jaczynski

Dear Galina, Thank you so very much for a beautiful calendar 2014. It arrived here 2-3 days ago but I was in Warsaw for a week visiting with my family and just got back home. Your mom's creations are so pretty and poems that you picked match her art work perfectly.

15.12.2013

Izabella and Marek Jaczynski

Dearest Galina,

Thank you so very much for the beautiful calendar 2013. The colorful pictures of your Mom's embroidery are so pretty. She truly is a great artist. And the idea of including poems of such famous poets in two languages in the calendar is great. I know I will enjoy reading and rereading them a lot :-)

Lublin, Poland

16.12.2012

Magdalena

Here is intresting people... Lets talk!

03.12.2007

Janice Lieberman

Dear Galina, What a delightful surprise I recieved this week when the album of your mother's embroideries arrived. They are so exquisite. Each one is unique and filled with "sunshine". I smiled as I studied each one... Your idea of developing a website is terrific, especially to have it in English and Russian. 

The beauty of preserving your mother's work is that it keeps her close to you and is a beautiful legacy for the family.

03.02.2007

Julie

The book of your mother's art is incredible. She must have been an inspiration to you!

07.12.2006

Karen

Thank you so much for the beautiful calendar of your mother's cross-stitch. She is a true artist. I went to web site and enjoyed reading about your mother's life and work… and, of course, seeing some of her beautiful stitches pieces. I would love to see some of her ribbon embroidery as well.

05.12.2006

Camelia Esquivel

Hi, Galina! The we page you created for your mother is sooo beautiful! Her work is fantastic! You are so fortunate to be the daughter of such incredible person and at the same time she is so fortunate to have a daughter like you! C O N G R A T U L A T I O N S !

10.05.2006

Igor Yevelev's translation for the poem "At the Dead End" by Grigoriy Alenitzkiy in September

The spark has burnt out my own regrets,
And star also gone into the depth of muddy pools.
The force of the wind blew turmoil with no ends,
As never been seen by the eyes of the fools.

These folks are quite ready for everything harsher,
As lies, and betrayal, as rape, and the murder,
These folks do not care that there is Supreme Judge,
Who is watching the crimes and observes such disorder.

These folks are demanding land, money and bliss,
For living such life - without loss or concern.
These folks reached the peak on the path to abyss,
It doesn't matter that Country has none in return.

San Jose, California, USA

1.9.2022