-Lift my eyelids !!!
Do you know who VIY is? Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol knew for sure that Viy was a Slavic demonic creature. He devoted one of his stories to this topic. But it will not be about him at all, but about chess.
-Поднимите мне веки!!!
Ты знаешь, кто такой ВИЙ ? Николай Васильевич Гоголь точно знал, что Вий это славянское демоническое существо. Одну из своих повестей он как раз и посвятил этой теме. Но речь пойдёт совсем не о нём, а о шахматах.
Several years ago I was obsessed with making a set of chess pieces. The main idea of a chess game was to consist in the struggle between light and dark forces.
I am afraid that I myself could not sit down for such a party. A very big responsibility. What if White starts and loses?
Maybe this is one of the reasons why I still haven't finished these figures.
Перебирая разные варианты я остановился на максимально упрощённом, даже скорее схематическом. Чёрные фигуры сделаны из искусственного морёного дуба (я травил дерево раствором аммиака). Белые сделаны из лесного орешника.
Of course, for a complete set, you also need a playing board with cells. Maybe someday I will finish this work.
These are old photographs, I didn't bother to reshoot the figures. I have a difficult relationship with them.
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