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Poppies are blooming and gillyflowers are besotting with their flavour in Benevskoe village. Slow paced life among Lazovskii hills reminds of embroidery paintings, created by local craftswomen. Up to the present time, Galina Azarova, managed to find time to not only deal with the daily routine, but also to create. Since early youth, she has been working on farm, raising children and later,after early decease of her son and doughter, grandchildren. Even in a hardest days, she always found time for needle and yarns.

What themes are most pleasing to the rural pensioner at present?

- Flowers from her own threshold are the most beloved models for Galina Grigoryevna: delicate poppies of light orange color, charming gillyflowers, that are constantly at risk to be trampled down by beloved black colored puppy with cute spots.

The whole house is decorated with gillyflowers. The walls, pillows, cushions and napkins are covered with embroidered roses, lilacs and poppies. All the items are embroidered with the use of different techniques, that are being well known in the big russian-ukrainian family. Her father is from Chernogovschina and mom from Siberia, but they met and fall in love with each other in the Far Eastern Benevskoe village. Their children were born here and the youngest one of them, Galina, has never ever left the village.

Galina Azarova, inhabitant of Benevskoe village says: "Right now I only have chickens, but beginning from 8th grade, when I graduated from local school, and till this year I alwasy had cows. I worked at collective farm till the time it has stoped to exist. After that and till the nearest time we always had cows at our own yard".

It seems, that she got so tired of cows, that didn't embroid them on her handiworks even once, though she has works with horses on them - horses with fairytale warrior heroes or simply horses on the meadow. The themes of her works are very well known and Galina Grigoryevna doesn't hide it and confess, that didn't make up any new concepts in her works.

All her works are backstitch embroidery, but made in a different styles, like hemstitch, Russian and Hungarian cross-stitch. Her sisters were also good at such handiwork.

- Mom could embroid and father was also good at it, besides he even could handweave and span.

In 1944, when wounded father, got back home from the battlefield, Galya Azarova was 3 years old. She just got used to being with the father, when he died in September of victorious 1945.

Her grandson, Nikita, used to embroid while studying in the Junior School. Galina Azarova is still keeping his handiwork with the swans and lotuses pictured on it. At present she is working upon eagle wings. Her husband brought her a backstitch embroidery set with traditional South Korean image: mountains and an eagle hovering over them. Existence of such backstitch embroidery sets abroad means, that popular in Russia handicraft is getting it's fans among foreigners around the world. And warm colored handiworks created by Far Eastern rural craftswoman scatter around different cities and villages, together with her family, friends and acquaintances. Being no exception, we also take delicate poppies of light orange color, made by Azarova, to Vladivostok.

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