The series conceived and compiled by Isaak Kushnir. Album concept, curator - Svetlana Tsvirkunova> Gennady Zubkov. Essays by Mikhail German.

He is a fine, severe and spiritual master to keep faith with the selected rule without being enslaved by it and using it as a mean of the constant development.
He is a painter got into the unaccustomed artistry just for his great experience, got into that mystery and mastership to be provided just the unerring taste? hard work and perfectionism.

However, he is an example of concentrating his life to the service of this work, a man of the adamantine and rare courage. He is a man to keep the moral and professional independence, tolerance and faith in life against everything.
Alexander Borisovich Baturin compels our admiration.

Other repeating his experience could be hardened in heart being down in the mouth or covering his head with a crown of thorns could substitute for his art with a fate of martyr. Our contemporary history has many appropriate examples. Myths of the past hard times defend some painters from the right blame for the present incapacity. However, our life has no bowels, and departed courage as well as once accomplished feats cannot improve modern paintings.

Indeed, the painter of the heroic fate in his own fashion, Baturin spent many years in the Stalinist camps was indisposed to convert his past anguish (that befalls sometimes many worthy men) into a pediment of his modern success. The other day he asked about the time of his imprisonment and exile said, "As you know there were singularly beautiful landscapes". Only a real painter seeing first beauty and disdaining his executioners can do this answer. This answer is chivalrous, it is the answer of a man to be above any lamentations.