Eduard Leminski one of Alexei Kutsenko and the artist sent me a pithy comment...
"Sergei, I'm glad that I remembered him! I would very much like to have more memories of this no doubt is an amazing artist and person. I for many years, (until your met) talked with him very closely. We were friends, went to the sketches, developed as artists together, knowing each other, feeling the need to literally each stroke on the canvas of each other, argued a lot about art. Then our paintings were quite different, changed approaches to the represented, but we continued to chat and make friends. One day, I had to "shove" him in a psychiatric hospital. I was of course against any treatment in these clinics, but the case was extraordinary. This time if not for the hospital - Alex would have definitely died! It was observed by a famous Professor, who was dismayed by the ability of Alex to paint with such concentration of drugs in his system. The Professor believed that Alexei unique in this sense, to discover Kutsenko, he, as a scientist, was convinced that it was impossible! ...Remember the fantastic but true story of how he first came to the clinic in his youth. I remember quite extraordinary, strange case on the eve of his death... It would be nice to publish a book of reminiscences about him!"...
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