About the interior
A photo: Dmitry Drozdov / “Antenna” “We have been living in this house for 13 years now,” says Parfenova’s spouse Elena Chekalova. - It was built and furnished gradually. And there are no expensive things. Part of the furniture purchased for little money in the mall. Then they removed the standard doors from the purchased cabinets and inserted those found in the villages. She weaved chairs and sofas with covers with patterns, even light bulbs painted. All personally brought to mind. I do not like rich houses, where everything is monotonous, according to the catalog. They have no individuality. And we have every detail of the interior - the whole story. For example, in Lenin's office, the main decoration is the shield that he brought from Ethiopia when he shot the film “Living Pushkin”. These were hard shots. The husband was captured by the bandits. Their group was robbed, and then they even wanted to shoot. They somehow persuaded the intruders to be released. And there is a plot behind every thing in our house. We have pictures of religious content, written by peasants 200-300 years ago. This is an apocryphal painting. A lot of old furniture, which Michael Surov, a friend of Leni, took out from the villages. Well, how did you take it out? Was exchanged. People wanted to put some awful wall into the house, and the wonderful cupboard in which their ancestors kept things was carried to the dustbin. And this was characteristic of all Soviet citizens. My grandmother, who was born before the revolution in a noble family, had wonderful furniture. When she was a child, mom and dad brought her to the market and bought a nightmarish wall. I did not have the right to vote, I could not protest then. Therefore, now for my husband and I, each such thing is a relic. It is such antiquities that create the very comfort, light, energy in our house. ”
