my daddy I love so much

The artist's father died at the age 51. His name was Alexey Nikolaevich. He suffered many years from multiple sclerosis. This terrible incurable disease makes human bodies disable. All his relatives and friends left him. The only person who didn't leave him was his daughter Lena Hades. She was at this time 13 years old teenager. Her father could not move his arms and his legs at all, he was totally immobilized by his disease. On January, 17, 1985, he died. The music he heard before his leaving this world was Adagio in G Minor by Tomaso Albinioni and the Alegretto of 7th symphony by Beethoven, it is a tragic coincidence but the Italian composer Tomaso Albinoni died on January, 17 too.

Aleksey Nikolaevich was extremely good and intelligent person and a talented chess player and the best father of the world. Another sad coincidence - Aleksey Nikolaevich's favorite American chess player Bobby Fischer died on January, 17, 2008, 23 years later.

Aleksey Nikolaevich's native land --

Kostroma region, Vokma, near the Zagatino village

9 July 1945 10 h 20 min

the Total Solar Ecipse observed by the artist's father when he was 12 years old

Zagatino village doesn't exist anymore - all young aboriginal people left it and old ones simply died of old age and all village houses already destroyed by time, this is a marker of the neighbor village Nikola, the artist's father when he was a child used to go to the Nikola village school...

lena hades grandfather

the artist's grandfather -- his name was Nikolay Dmitrievich, he was of Gypsy origin and he was extremely honest and gentle person, he had 7 children, he often told his children 'you must go to bed with a clear conscience"-- he was a peasant farmer and a Gypsy but his soul was noble and generous

Grandfather Nikolay in his coffin

artists grandparent's izba

probably 1962-1963 in Russian izba means a village house

artist's father, here he is 26 years old, the cold summer of 1959, Lena Hades was in this moment in her mother's womb

lena hades daddy

ушаков николаевич папа лены хейдиз

мир-peace

lena hades as a child

Now in Russia Facebook doesn't work, it's completely down because it's blocked by Russian authorities, Twitter is down too, Instagram is still working, so I can describe what is happening now in my country, this is our new world reality - the Third World "Peace"... This Third World "Peace" is so terrible, so frightening ... I don't know how to stop it ... No one can hear me ... Putin called this war "peacekeeping operation to restore peace" ... STOP WAR! STOP THIS CHIMERIC "PEACE"! #stopwar #pea