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The designer, who has moved the faces of victims of repression to the present, told how the project began. A PHOTO

Khasan Bahaev Photo: Facebook

Few have heard of the Moscow cartoonist Hasan Bakhaeva, but October 27 started talking about it all. On the eve of the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Political Repression, the artist published Facebook a collage depicting Tamara Litsinsky shot in 1937 year. He placed a photo of a woman in a “modern setting”, “dressed” in modern clothes, added color to a black and white photo.

As Bahaev told the publication "Present"Thus, he decided to show that that terrible regime is not the distant past, and the victims of the regime are ordinary people, like each of us. The publication gathered hundreds of likes and reposts, and the idea grew into a “Reviving Memory” photo project.

Khasan Bahaev was born and raised in Moscow. Father Bahaev is a Chechen, mother is half Russian, half Ukrainian. His relatives on both sides were also victims of the Stalin regime: the maternal great-grandfather died in the GULAG, the family of the father together with other Vainakh families were deported to 1944 in Kazakhstan, where the grandfather died in one of the camps.

“I don’t take questions about ethical issues personally. I have this right, because I am a descendant of repressed people. They blame me for not using the faces of my ancestors in the project. And I do not have their photos. What are the pictures in the mountains? In addition to information about the grave of his grandfather, father's father, there is no more information. But recently I made a collage depicting the face of my great-grandfather on the maternal side. I think I look something like him. True, he has such a mustache like Chapaev. I would really like to do a project with other deported Chechens and would be glad if they sent me photos. ”

It all started with Tamara Litsinskaya. Beautiful girl from the past with a lively look. Later, Hassan confesses that “in his own way he fell in love with her” and decided to “revive”. Tamara he considers muse project. The author picked her build, which seemed the most suitable. The girl holds her hair, which gives photos realism.

“But it turned out that the face was left in black and white, and everything else - in color. I took a program that partially flashes a photo to blur the line between the shots. If I took a photo in full color, on the one hand, it would make it perfect, but on the other, the connection of time would disappear. It all happened quickly, as if the Most High himself drove with my hand, and all I could do was succumb to this excitement. ”

Tamara Litsinskaya

Tamara Litsinskaya was a second year student in the evening department of the Rabfak named after. Lenin. On charges of "participating in an anti-Soviet terrorist organization," she was sentenced to death. The girl was shot six months after her arrest, she was 28 years old.

Litsinsky left two young children - a son and a daughter. A few days ago, her great-granddaughter, the granddaughter of her son, contacted Hassan. The project liked the girl. “I think Tamara would not mind,” she wrote to Hassan.

Soviet theater director Vsevolod Meyerhold arrested in 1939 year on suspicion of "counter-revolutionary crimes". He was sentenced to death penalty - execution. The sentence was carried out six months after his arrest, February 2 1940.

“I was struck by the look of Meyerhold: so old, lost. He was 66 years old. And he, the old man, was beaten there. Imagine, some kind of nit, which cannot connect two words, beats Meyerhold himself. In general, you can not beat anyone. And then - the whole Meyerhold, and beat him. As if he is nothing.

Vsevolod Meyerhold

Meyerhold's spouse, actress Zinaida Reich, was killed less than a month after the arrest of her husband. The report on the search of their home indicated a complaint against Reich, who protested against the methods of one of the NKVD officers. Once he got into her apartment at night, an unknown person stabbed a 17 woman.

Zinaida Reich

Evgeniy Yaroslavskaya-Marcon shot on 30 year of life in 1931 year. Her husband, Alexander Yaroslavsky, was sentenced to 5 years in the camps and sent to the Solovki, Arkhangelsk Region. In 1930, Eugene began to prepare an escape for her husband, for which she was arrested. She was sentenced to 3 years in the camps, and her husband was added a sentence for trying to escape. At the end of 1930, Alexander was shot. Eugene was shot six months later.

“I chose it because it has a lot of life. I really like such women: brave, daring. I tried to arrange an escape for my husband - fire! Her story made a great impression on me, I couldn’t pass it by,” says Hassan.

Evgenia Yaroslavskaya-Marcon

Raice Bochlen 21 was the year she was shot. The girl worked as a typist at the Glavsevmorput Management. The Soviet government accused her of spying for Japan. For the same reason, Raisa's father and brother were arrested and shot. Her sister was arrested, and her mother on 5 years was sent into exile in the Orenburg region.

Raisa bochlen

Despite the enormous resonance of the “Living Memory” project, there were many mixed reactions. The newly formed project has both admirers and those who strongly disapprove of it. “They wrote to me: “How can you? My relatives died in camps and exile!” But let them point out to me their family connection with one of those whom I involved in the project, I will exclude this photograph. I didn't do anything bad to them. If you believe in another world, then I did for them everything that could be done for them. They remembered them with a kind word and cried for them. I think people really shed tears for them. Tamara generally became a celebrity. A large number of people prayed for her. What relative can tell me something? The author admits that leading the project is emotionally difficult. And it's not just about criticism.

“These photos show people at one of the most critical moments in their lives, they just got into this meat grinder, and they are photographed. It depicts the beginning of hell. You look at people, you know their fate. Imagine what energy comes from these photos. First, it is a very strong work of the soul. This imposes a certain imprint on the psyche, but I do not dare to quit it. ”

Hassan says that he wants to include photos of the deported Chechens and Ingush into the project, but he has no pictures of these people yet.

Soviet 25-year-old mountaineer Oleg Korzun, shot in 1938, on charges of spying and preparing a terrorist attack

Almost immediately after the project was sold on social networks, Hassan began to receive offers to jointly publish a book on repression, make a separate series on musicians, and even organize an exhibition. “The proposal, of course, is tempting, but working alone at the exhibition is not easy. I want to have access to the archive, where I could draw these photos to get enough material. Yes, and the help of sponsors would not hurt. "

Now dozens of people from all over the world share with Hassan the stories of their relatives and send their photos - each author carefully “revives”. The author of the project does not yet know what this will result in, but he is definitely sure that he will not make money on it.

“I’m not able to raise this project alone, I don’t have an administrative resource, I was not going to receive any money for it and I don’t receive it. The only thing, if there is a social request, I will do it as much as I can. As long as I have the opportunity to run into the right people, I will do them. ”

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