Honorary Chairman of the Vasnetsov Foundation Olga Alekseevna Vasnetsova is 75 years old!

On March 16, 2016, Honorary Chairman of the Vasnetsov Foundation Olga Alekseevna Vasnetsova celebrated her 75th birthday with her family and close friends. Olga Alekseevna's daughter Alexandra gathered to congratulate the ideologist of the creation of the Vasnetsov Foundation; Arkady Vasnetsov's great-grandson, chief architect of Mozhaisk Nikolai Borisovich Vasnetsov; Arkady Vasnetsov's great-granddaughters Ekaterina Borisovna Vasnetsova and Elena Nikolaevna Vlasova; diplomat Oleg Vladimirovich Vasnetsov, great-grandson of Apollinaria Vasnetsov; chairman of the Vasnetsov Foundation Kuznetsov Oleg Vasilyevich, great-grandson of Maria Nikolaevna Vasnetsova . Most came in families, some up to three generations. Long‒time friends and like-minded people congratulated the birthday girl - Lyudmila Vasilyevna Fedorova, head of the department for the study of creativity of V.M. Vasnetsov of the Tretyakov Gallery, Sergey Nikolaevich Chernyshev, a descendant of S.I. Mamontov, Lidia Ivanovna Iovleva, a leading researcher at the State Tretyakov Gallery.

On her birthday, Olga Alekseevna shared her memories of those who lived in the house-museum of the famous ancestor V.M. Vasnetsov, told the story of the family, the modern descendants of the Vasnetsovs, who gathered for her anniversary, many of whom captured the features of the ancestors, whose portraits are hung on the walls of this amazing house. I would like the hospitable and warm atmosphere that prevailed this evening to be passed on to every family, so that family history and experience become an integral part of the development of subsequent generations, because at the heart of all this lies love, which is never much. Taking this opportunity, we express our gratitude and appreciation to Olga Alekseevna Vasnetsova for her efforts to bring these precious family moments to us and wish her good spiritual and bodily health, love and care of loved ones and every success!