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C Oleg Burov we met in the early 70's.
It was like this: I found a tiny black kitten and I kept thinking, where would it to me to attach. In any case, decided to go to Nashchyokin house - keeper of his work while a friend of mine, an archaeologist Pichikyan Igor, who is running to live there a cloud of artists, though, and suspect that his humanity does not apply to representatives of the feline - and the yard had fallen on one exclaimed : "What a lovely kitty! Where you have this? ". This man was a sculptor Oleg Burov, guarding the last part of the historic mansion. The kitten was also prolific cat named Black, the progenitor of the whole dynasty Prechistenka-ostorzhenskih cats. And with Oleg we became friends.
I was immediately surprised and attracted his polychrome sculptures of female figures, like Aphrodite, born of a foam, women's faces, like the flower-maidens of Wagner Parsifal ...

Then Oleg moved to France, and our friendship continued. The whole garden of his three-story shop in familiar at least by the name of all the people who love painting, city Ober-sur-Oise, hung with birdhouses, bird feeders. These same birds arrive, lunch and dinner, as if suddenly turns out that the feeder is empty, insolent and exacting banging on the window. Every morning the resort neighborhood and simply abandoned dogs, cats, squirrels, rabbits and even some livestock - also with his claims. Oleg understands what they are. Oleg - a specialist in phonetics, morphology, syntax, the language of animals ...