Constructivism in the works of Alexander Rodchenko. Laconic USSR Rodchenko (many photos)

Soviet master of photography Alexander Rodchenko is known as one of the founders of constructivism and the creation of a completely new direction - design. For many years he worked with his wife, artist Varvara Stepanova, simultaneously practicing photography, painting, graphics, book design, sculpture and advertising design.

In photography, Rodchenko put documentary quality and realism of the images he created in the first place. He is responsible for innovation in the field of experiments with angular composition of the frame and photographic points.

Alexander Mikhailovich Rodchenko was born in 1891, his father worked as a theater props maker. At first he studied to become a dental technician, but his passion for painting eventually prevailed, and Rodchenko entered the Kazan Art School. It was there that he met his future wife Varvara Stepanova, with whom he subsequently made many joint artistic projects.

Rodchenko was actively interested in painting and worked on creating abstract compositions. For some time he devoted himself to the so-called production art, which involved the creation of utilitarian objects without any artistic content.

After the revolution of 1917, Rodchenko became one of the secretaries of the trade union of painters in Moscow, organizing the necessary conditions for the creativity of young artists. During this period, he tried his hand at decorating the Pittoresk cafe in Moscow and at the same time headed the Museum Bureau. His life in art is a constant experiment involving the creation of completely new graphic, pictorial and spatial projects.

In painting, Rodchenko introduced lines and dots as independent pictorial forms; in the field of creating spatial forms, folding and collapsing structures from flat cardboard elements. In the early 20s, he was engaged in teaching, teaching his students the basics of creating multifunctional objects for everyday life and public buildings.

Creative experiments gradually led Rodchenko to photography, which he considered an absolutely necessary means of expression for any modern artist. His portrait and reportage photographs, as well as interesting collages using both his own photographs and magazine clippings, immediately attracted attention to him.

Rodchenko’s photographs began to be published in such publications as “Evening Moscow”, “Soviet Photo”, “Dash”, “Pioneer” and “Ogonyok”. With a reputation as an innovator in photography, Alexander Rodchenko soon received an offer from Vladimir Mayakovsky to illustrate his books. Rodchenko made several photomontages for the design of the publication of Mayakovsky’s poem “About This” in 1923, which even served as the beginning of the emergence of a new direction in modern art - book illustration and design.

Two years later, at the International Exhibition of Contemporary Decorative and Industrial Arts in Paris, Rodchenko’s advertising posters were awarded a silver medal. At the same time, he turned to classical portraiture in photography - portraits of Mayakovsky, Aseev, Tretyakov, Melnikov and other representatives of art. In 1926, the magazine “Soviet Cinema” also published his first perspective photographs of buildings, including the series of photographs “House on Myasnitskaya” and “House of Mosselprom”.

What distinguished Alexander Rodchenko from other photographers of the 20s? The fact is that photography of that time was characterized by the creation of images with a horizontal composition and a rectilinear perspective. The photographs were dominated mainly by static sculptural compositions, which did not evoke great emotions in the viewer.

Rodchenko was the first in Soviet photography to call for abandoning such dogmas in favor of images that describe life as realistically as possible. That is why he constantly experimented with angles and shooting points in order to catch this or that object in those moments that would constitute its essence, movement.

In photography, Rodchenko sought to reveal the content of an object or an entire phenomenon. To do this, he skillfully “played” with photographic angles, used contrasting chiaroscuro and worked on the original compositional structure of the frame.

Alexander Rodchenko went down in the history of Russian and world photography as the author of unique photographs taken from a variety of angles, from an unusual and unusual angle for the human eye. He believed that every photographer should “remove the veil from the eyes called the navel... and shoot from all points except the navel until all points are recognized.”

In the 30s, Alexander Rodchenko worked as a photojournalist for the Izogiz publishing house and as a graphic designer for the magazine “USSR in Construction,” which allowed him to take part in a trip to the White Sea-Baltic Canal, where he took a series of reportage photographs. After a series of government propaganda projects inspired by the spirit of the times and revolutionary romanticism, Rodchenko became interested in sports photography and photography of the unusual world of the circus.

In the post-war years, he returned from photography to painting and decoration. However, his original work soon came into conflict with the position of the official authorities and in 1951 Rodchenko was expelled from the Union of Artists.

Alexander Rodchenko died in December 1956 in Moscow and was buried at the Donskoye Cemetery. In photography, he is often compared to Edward Weston and Tina Modotti. In many ways, the school of Soviet photography created with his participation discovered many new outstanding names - Arkady Shaikhet, Max Alpert, and others.

In 1998, the Museum of Modern Art in New York hosted a large-scale exhibition of works by Alexander Rodchenko, which included all his best projects in the field of painting, graphics and photography.

Rodchenko was called the genius of Soviet propaganda in the mid-20th century. He was a talented, creative master. Alexander Rodchenko stood at the origins of the avant-garde in the USSR. It was he who set the latest standards in advertising and design, destroyed old ideas about graphics and posters, and created a new course in this direction. Behind all sides of this creative personality there is such a facet as photography, and not everyone knows about it. Rodchenko knew how to capture interesting moments and create unique masterpieces.

More than a photographer

In the 20s, Alexander Rodchenko began to create his first photographic works. He was a unique photographer. At that time he worked as an artist-designer in the theater. He had a need to capture his work on film, and so he discovered a new art that completely captivated and enchanted him. Alexander Rodchenko's main contribution to the development of the photo reportage genre was the first multiple photographs of a person in action. This is how he collected documentary-figurative ideas about the models. His unusual photo reports were published in all popular central publications: in the magazines "Ogonyok", "Pioneer", "Radio Listener", "30 Days", in the newspaper "Evening Moscow".

Alexander Rodchenko. Photography is art

Photographer Rodchenko’s calling card was photographs taken from different angles (foreshortening). With these photographs the master went down in history. The images were taken from an angle that is unusual for perception, often from a unique, unusual point. The perspective to a certain extent distorts and changes the perception of an ordinary object. For example, the photographs taken by the artist from the roofs are so dynamic that it seems as if the image is about to begin to move. It is not surprising that such a series of photographs was first published in the magazine “Soviet Cinema”.

Rodchenko set such canons in the art of photography that have taken pride of place in modern photography textbooks. For example, when performing a series of portraits of Mayakovsky, the photographer completely departed from the standards of conventional studio photography. But in the 30s, some of his experiments seemed too bold to the authorities. The photograph from the bottom of the famous "Pioneer Trumpeter" seemed bourgeois to some. The boy from this angle looked like a sort of “well-fed” bad boy. The artist here did not enter the framework of proletarian photography.

Alexander Rodchenko, biography

In 1891, Alexander Rodchenko was born in St. Petersburg into a simple, humble family. My father's name was Mikhail Mikhailovich (1852-1907), he served as a theater props man. Mother, Olga Evdokimovna (1865-1933), worked as a laundress. Due to prevailing circumstances, in 1902 the family moved to a permanent place of residence in the city of Kazan. Here Alexander received his first education at the Kazan parish primary school.

Alexander Rodchenko (USSR, 1891-1956) was a member of the Zhivsculptarch society since 1919. In 1920, he was a member of the Rabis development group. In the 1920-1930s he was a teacher as a professor at the metalworking and woodworking faculties. He taught students to design multifunctional objects and achieve expressive forms by identifying design features.

Photo activities

In the 20s, Rodchenko was actively involved in photography. To illustrate Mayakovsky's books "About This" in 1923, he used photomontage. Since 1924, he became known for his psychological portraits of friends, relatives and acquaintances ("Portrait of a Mother", Mayakovsky, Tretyakov, Brik). In 1925-1926 he published perspective photographs from the series “House of Mosselprom”, “House on Myasnitskaya”. He published articles about the art of photography, where he promoted a documentary view of the world around him, defended the need to use new methods, mastering different points of view (lower, upper) in the photo. Participated in the exhibition "Soviet Photography" in 1928.

Alexander Rodchenko became a famous master of photography thanks to the use of different angles in photography. In 1926-1928 he worked as a production designer in cinema ("Moscow in October", "Journalist", "Albidum"). In 1929, based on Glebov's play, he designed the play "Inga" at the Theater of the Revolution.

30s

Alexander Rodchenko, whose work seemed to bifurcate in the 30s, on the one hand, is engaged in propaganda of socialist realism, on the other, he is trying to preserve his own freedom. Its symbol is the photo reports about the circus created in the late 30s. During this period he returned to easel painting. In the 40s, Rodchenko painted decorative compositions made in abstract expressionism.

The 30s are marked by the transition from early comprehensive works to the specific creativity of Soviet propaganda, which are completely imbued with revolutionary enthusiasm. In 1933, the photographer was sent to the construction site of the White Sea Canal, where he took many reportage photographs (about two thousand), but only thirty are known now.

Later, together with his wife Stepanova, the albums “First Cavalry”, “15 Years of Kazakhstan”, “Soviet Aviation”, “Red Army” were designed. Since 1932, Rodchenko was a member of the Union of Artists. In 1936 he took part in an exhibition of masters of Soviet photography. Since 1928, he regularly sent his works to exhibitions in salons in France, the USA, Great Britain, Spain and other countries.

Alexander Rodchenko, recalling his childhood, says that when he was 14 years old, he sadly wrote in his diary about the uncertainty in life. He was sent to study medicine, and he longingly dreamed of becoming a real artist. Finally, at the age of 20, Alexander quit medicine and went to study at an art school. In 1916 he will be drafted into the army, and yet practicing medicine will benefit him. He will be appointed manager of the sanitary train instead of being sent to the front.

In the 20s, Rodchenko and his wife organized a creative union. They developed a “new way of life” and combined many artistic techniques and arts. Together we designed a new clothing model - now it’s a jumpsuit. It was intended to hide gender differences between future generations and to praise the labor activity of Soviet people. In 1925, the first and last trip abroad took place in the master’s life; he was sent to Paris. There he designed the USSR department during the International Exhibition.

last years of life

After the war, Alexander Rodchenko fell into depression; the entries in his diary are only pessimistic. In 1947, he complains that life is becoming more boring every day. They stopped providing work for him and Varvara. A period of lack of money began. As the author himself said, all that remains is to pray to God. In 1951, Rodchenko was even expelled from the Union of Artists, although four years later he was reinstated, but it was too late, the artist stopped creating. He died in 1956, December 3. Alexander Rodchenko was buried at the Donskoye Cemetery.

Mayakovsky's associate in advertising
December 5 marked the 125th anniversary of the birth of Alexander Rodchenko

Alexander Rodchenko

Alexander Rodchenko “Pioneer”, 1930

In 1916, Rodchenko moved to Moscow, met his wife and colleague Varvara Stepanova and actively began to participate in avant-garde exhibitions together with Wassily Kandinsky, Vladimir Tatlin, and El Lissitzky. At first, his activity as a non-objective artist was limited to easel painting with compasses and rulers, largely derived from the Suprematism of Kazimir Malevich.

Alexander Rodchenko

2. Alexander Rodchenko “Red. Yellow. Blue", 1921

3. Artist, photographer Alexander Rodchenko, director Vsevolod Meyerhold, poet Vladimir Mayakovsky, composer Dmitry Shostakovich (from left to right)

4. Alexander Rodchenko, Vladimir Mayakovsky “There have never been better nipples,” 1923

5. Alexander Rodchenko “Kinoglaz”, 1924

Nevertheless, in 1921, at the exhibition “5 × 5 = 25”, he showed the triptych “Smooth Color” of three monochrome canvases (yellow, red, blue) and, thus, broke with non-objective painting, divorced from reality, in order to move on to “industrial art”, which was supposed to organically merge into the collective life of the new society.

9. Alexander Rodchenko “Workers’ Club”, 1925

The “Constructivist Group” arose in February 1921 on the initiative of the artist and art theorist Alexei Gan, as well as Rodchenko and Stepanova. A year earlier, Rodchenko began giving lectures at VKHUTEMAS (Higher State Art and Technical Workshops) and supervising student projects - among them, for example, a bus station and universal exhibition equipment.

10. Alexander Rodchenko. By the phone. 1928

11. Alexander Rodchenko. Vladimir Mayakovsky. 1924

12. Alexander Rodchenko. Pedestrians. 1928

13. Alexander Rodchenko “He is not a citizen of the USSR who is not a shareholder of Dobrolyota”, 1923

One of Rodchenko’s first works on the topic of the day, which were called upon to “restructure” the consciousness of Soviet people, was a poster: “He is not a citizen of the USSR who is not a shareholder of Dobrolyota.” Since 1923, in tandem with Vladimir Mayakovsky, he has signed advertising posters: “Advertising designer Mayakovsky - Rodchenko.” Among their joint works is the Mosselprom emblem, advertising for the Molodaya Gvardiya magazine, GUM and Rubber Trust.

14. Alexander Rodchenko. Portrait of a mother. 1924

15. Alexander Rodchenko. "Wildflowers". 1937

16. Alexander Rodchenko. Sukharevsky Boulevard. 1928

17. Alexander Rodchenko “Composition”. 1917

18. Alexander Rodchenko “Dance”. 1915

19. Alexander Rodchenko “Pioneer”, 1930

Today, Rodchenko’s photographs are associated with laconic forms, clear lines and clear images. They are sold at auctions and exhibited in museums. However, Rodchenko took his first photographs in 1924 to collect material for photomontages.

20. Alexander Rodchenko “White Circle”. 1918

21. Alexander Rodchenko

On the 125th anniversary of his birthAlexandra Rodchenko(1891-1956) - constructivist, photographer and one of the first designers in the USSR, whose experiences have now taken shape as cultural archetypes, Gazeta.Ru recalls the main milestones of the artist’s work.

And Alexander Rodchenko was one of the founders of constructivism and the creators of the first Soviet advertising. He worked on propaganda posters, painted abstracts, illustrated books, and invented artistic photography techniques that are still used today.

“I was committed.” Meet the avant-garde

Alexander Rodchenko was born on December 5, 1891 in St. Petersburg, in the family of Mikhail and Olga Rodchenko. His mother worked as a laundress, his father as a theater props maker. They lived in a small apartment directly above the theater; to go outside, you had to walk straight through the stage every time. Therefore, the boy’s early childhood took place in a “behind the scenes” environment. Mikhail Rodchenko did not want his son to follow in his footsteps and insisted on getting a “real profession.” Immediately after finishing four classes at the parochial school, the boy went to study to become a dental technician and even worked as a prosthetist for some time. However, in 1911, he entered an art school in Kazan as a volunteer, where the Rodchenko family had moved by that time. Varvara Stepanova, who later became Rodchenko’s wife and colleague, a famous artist and designer, studied at the same school.

In 1914, during an all-Russian tour, futurists came to Kazan - Vladimir Mayakovsky, Vasily Kamensky and David Burliuk. Their evening made a strong impression on Alexander Rodchenko: he realized that he wanted to engage in futuristic art.

At the end of 1915, Alexander and his wife moved from Kazan to Moscow. There, through mutual friends, he met the artist Vladimir Tatlin, one of the founders of the avant-garde movement. Tatlin invited Rodchenko to take part in the futuristic art exhibition “Shop”. Instead of an entry fee, Alexander Rodchenko helped organize the event: he sold tickets and told guests about the works presented.

“I learned everything from him [Tatlin]: attitude to the profession, to things, to material, to food and all life, and this left a mark for the rest of my life... Of all the modern artists I have met, there is no equal to him.”

Alexander Rodchenko

Kazimir Malevich. White on white. 1918. New York Museum of Modern Art, New York

Alexander Rodchenko. Black on black. 1918. Vyatka Art Museum named after V.M. I am. Vasnetsov, Kirov

During these years, Rodchenko finally decided on the direction of his own creativity. Inspired by Malevich’s painting “White on White” (“White Square on a White Background”), he created a series of works “Black on Black”. However, if Malevich’s painting is built on geometric shapes and a play of shades, then the main means of expression for Rodchenko was texture - it was she who made the composition three-dimensional.

Illustrator, decorator, avant-garde poster master

Alexander Rodchenko became one of the founders of constructivism - his works were distinguished by their laconicism and geometricism. The artist illustrated books, worked on sets for theatrical productions and filming, but his advertising posters became the most famous. In addition to the traditional means of painting and graphics, Rodchenko used photomontage techniques, creating laconic and informative collages.

The artist released a whole series of advertising posters together with Vladimir Mayakovsky: the poet was responsible for short, memorable slogans. Constructivist posters fully fit into the revolutionary ideology of the young Soviet state. They were called upon to educate, inform, and agitate.

Using the technique of photomontage, Rodchenko created not only posters, but also illustrations for books and magazines. In particular, to Mayakovsky’s poem “About This”.

Alexander Rodchenko, Vladimir Mayakovsky. “Nowhere except in Mosselprom.” 1925. Image: n-europe.eu

Photo experiments by Alexander Rodchenko

Alexander Rodchenko began taking photographs in 1924. By that time, he was not only an accomplished artist, but also a teacher - he taught at the Moscow Art and Technical Institute. At first, Rodchenko photographed only to collect new materials for collages, but later his innovative works became very popular. Rodchenko used unusual angles, thanks to which his works acquired special dynamics and realism. The most impressive images for those years were those with a diagonal composition, when shooting was done from top to bottom or bottom to top. Such methods contradicted the strict canons of photography at that time. But Alexander Rodchenko’s techniques quickly became popular with his colleagues, and many of them are used in professional photography to this day. However, some of his experiments were criticized. For example, the work “Pioneer Trumpeter”: in it a boy with a bugle is shot from a lower angle. They said about the photo that the boy looked more like a “well-fed bourgeois” than a Soviet pioneer.

Since the late 1930s, Alexander Rodchenko stopped experimenting with themes and genres. He practically did not photograph or draw, he only designed books with his wife.

After the Great Patriotic War, the artist became interested in pictorialism. This direction of photography made photographs look like paintings. Photographers achieved a similar effect through special light and shutter speed settings. During this period, Alexander Rodchenko was interested in the circus and theater and often photographed artists in the style of pictorialism.

The artist died on December 3, 1956. He did not live long enough to see the opening of his first photo exhibition, which was organized by his wife. Today, Rodchenko’s name is borne by the Moscow School of Photography and Multimedia, where his grandson, Alexander Lavrentiev, teaches.

December 5, 1891 in beautiful St. Petersburg. His mother was an ordinary laundress, and his father was a theater worker who worked as a prop maker. When the boy was 11 years old, the family moved to live in the beautiful city of Kazan, where Alexander graduated from primary school at the church parish after 3 years.

In 1911, the young man entered the art school named after. N.I. Feshina, in which 3 years later he meets a beautiful girl named Varvara Stepanova. At the age of 23, the lovers begin a happy life together by moving to Moscow. At this age he was drafted into the army, in which he served for another 3 years. The future photographer was in charge of the management of one Sanitary train under the Moscow zemstvo.

After the army, Rodchenko begins to work in the trade union of painters in Moscow, where he mainly organizes normal working conditions for all young and beginners. Simultaneously with this work, Alexander, together with his colleagues, is working on the design of a local cafe called “Pittoresk”.

A year later, Alexander begins to develop a series of his own graphic, spatial, pictorial, abstract and geometric works. He was also interested in the direction of minimalism. After some time, Rodchenko began to participate in permanent exhibitions of the Russian avant-garde and in competitions dedicated to architectural topics.

In his small texts entitled “Everything is Experience” and “Line”, he recorded his personally accumulated creativity over many years. His attitude towards art was simply phenomenal; Rodchenko characterized the texts as something new in his life, which should not be overlooked.

For him, all this was a huge opportunity for self-expression and self-improvement, since every artistic particle invested in his work was a microelement of his big and kind soul.

In 1918, Alexander Rodchenko painted two impressive paintings, “White Circle” and “Black on Black,” the latter made entirely of oil paints.

The following year, the artist worked on creating a work of art consisting of three parts, which was made of monochrome flowers.

He constantly experimented and discovered something new for himself. Everything he did in the field of art and painting led him to designing real objects. He was faced with the most difficult and interesting task: to create a new unique thing from his own ideas and thoughts.

In 1919, Alexander worked on works made from flat elements of cardboard - this composition was called “Folding and Collapsing.” In 1920, he was interested in hanging mobiles that were cut out of plywood in simple geometric shapes - he called these works "Planes reflecting light."

And already in 1921, he invented spatial structures from ordinary wooden slats, from which a very interesting design “According to the principle of identical forms” emerged. In the same year, the painter drew a line in this direction and decided to switch to production art.

Further career and personal development

After some time, Rodchenko began to lecture at the woodworking and metalworking departments of the Moscow educational institution Vkhutemas-Vkhutein. For ten whole years, he has been working as a professor and teaching young people to design and create multifunctional objects that are useful to people both in everyday life and for large-scale purposes.

He showed how to give any manufactured object its unique and original expressive form, just as he could give an ordinary thing a transformable function. Throughout his teaching career, Alexander Rodchenko worked at the Institute of Artistic Culture as chairman of the commission.

In the period from 1923 to 1930, Alexander was a member of the groups “Lef” and “Ref”, and also worked as an artist for two popular magazines: the eponymous “Lef” and a certain “New Lef”.

He actively participated in the Association of Modern Architects, and in 1925 he was sent on a business trip to Paris to professionally design the Soviet section of the International Exhibition of Contemporary Decorative and Industrial Arts. It was there that the photographer carried out his first interior project, “Workers’ Club”.

In the same year, Alexander received a silver medal at the Paris exhibition for the best advertising posters; he was the author of the famous panels on the same Mosselprom House in Kalashny Lane in Moscow.

Since 1924, Alexander Rodchenko began to professionally study photography; his most famous works of that time are “Portrait of a Mother” and portraits of colleagues from LEF, as well as images of famous artists and architects.

After 2 years, he published his first angle shots of various buildings in the magazine “Soviet Cinema”. He demonstrated his work from photo sessions in such a way that they became real propaganda for a completely new documentary view of our world. And Alexander always defended the position on the need to study and apply absolutely all points of view in photography.

In 1928, Rodchenko participated in an exhibition entitled “Soviet Photography for 10 Years.” His wide popularity and worldwide fame arose due to his constant experiments with angles during the next photo shoot. A year later, he staged a play based on A. G. Glebov’s play “Inga” at the famous Moscow Theater of the Revolution.

In the early thirties, Alexander Rodchenko worked as a photojournalist for a newspaper called “Evening Moscow”, and also did not ignore the popular magazines of the Soviet era: “Radio Listener”, “Ogonyok” and many others. He was actively interested in and developed in the film industry, reportage photography, and was also a talented inventor of original furniture, unusual costumes and original scenery.

In 1930, when Rodchenko was almost 40 years old, he became one of the founders of a photo group called "October", which included talented and professional photographers who shared the principles of innovative photography. A year later, at the House of Press, Alexander published several controversial photographs under the titles “Pioneer” and “Pioneer Trumpeter.”

And in 1931, here he demonstrated his best dynamic photographs “Vakhtan Sawmill”, which caused a storm of criticism and accusations of formalism that had not subsided for a long time, since the photographs did not correspond to the tasks of proletarian ethics.

After working in his own photo group for about two years, the photographer decided to leave this place and begin to develop himself as a photojournalist by getting a job at the popular publishing house Izogiz. A year later, he began working as one of the main graphic designers for a magazine called “USSR at Construction.”

Together with his charming wife Varvara, he worked on photo albums “10 years of Uzbekistan”, “Soviet aviation” and many others.

Recent works and retirement

Alexander Rodchenko continued his favorite activity as a painter, thanks to which he soon became a member of the jury and artist of numerous exhibitions, and was on the presidium of the photo section of the professional union of film workers.

This brilliant man is today known not only in the circles of the former countries that were part of the USSR, but also in the West. Towards the end of his twenties, he often sent his best work from photo shoots to France, Spain, the USA, Great Britain and Czechoslovakia.

After socialist realism was legitimized in the mid-thirties as the only correct style and method of presenting modern art, all of Alexander Rodchenko’s work began to be harshly criticized from all sides.

All this persecution lasted until 1951, until he was removed from the Union of Soviet Artists. And when all these disagreements subsided and the opinions of critics came to naught, he was reinstated as a member in 1954.

At the same time, the gifted master decided to return to painting and over the course of several years painted a whole selection of paintings dedicated to the circus and its workers. Throughout the forties, the author created many different decorative and non-objective works.

When the notorious Second World War began, he and his family were evacuated to the city of Ocher, and then they moved to live in Perm. In 1942, he returned to Moscow, where he again began working as a designer for various contemporary art exhibitions.

A year later he became the main pictorial artist of the capital's House of Technology. Then Rodchenko again worked with V. Mayakovsky, they created a whole selection of monographic posters, and a year before his death, the photographer, together with his beloved wife Varvara Fedorovna, wrote sketches for the design of the famous poem by the great Russian writer called “Good!”

Constructivist Alexander Rodchenko passed away on December 3, 1956 at the age of 64 in Moscow; this outstanding photographer was buried at the New Donskoye Cemetery.

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With absolute sincerity, Maxim Izmailov.