White Horse

About the Book

This work is about the motherly beginning of all earthy, about spiritual origin of human—of a specific person, a woman. Heroine nicknamed Dove, sent to Earth of our time by Morena, the goddess of death and fertility. Dove lives among ordinary people, working, suffering, losing, loving, and tolerating. And finally she returns to the kingdom of Morena riding on a white horse, which was given to her for a worthy mission on Earth, and in the company of the child, whose name is associated with a particular object of the global hunt.

About the Author

Anna-Nina Kovalenko Painter, graphic artist, writer, performer, curator. Born in a family of Old Believers in the village of Sidoryonkovo in western Siberia during the Second World War. Studied at the Moscow Power Engineering Institute (1960–63). Dropped out after three years and moved to Odessa, where she performed menial work at the Jute Manufactory (1963–1965). Returned to Moscow and studied at the All-Union Institute of Cinematography (1965–68). Moved to Siberia where worked for TV (Kemerovo) and for local miners newspapers (Belovo, Kemerovo). Back to Moscow and trained as an artist under Alexei Maximov (1970s). Member of the Moscow Independent Artist Association (1979–86). Participated in many exhibitions, including women shows, in cooperation with D. Anikeev and A. Semionov. Organized the show Eight and had solo shows in House of Scientist (Dubna). Under police surveillance after publicly opposing the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan (1981). Joined the Trust Group for establishing peace and mutual trust between East and West (1984). Helped young hippy artists to hold underground exhibitions, performances and shows, as show parade Art Is Stronger than Bombs” (September 6) on Old Arbat Street in Moscow, which ended in the KGB assaulting and arresting the participants and destroying the art works (1986). Engaged in solo activism for peace, leading to physical assaults, arrest, imprisonment and incarceration in a psychiatric hospital, where she was forcibly injected with drugs used for physical destroying. Released from hospital after signing a document promising to leave the Soviet Union within six days (end of 1986). Awarded political asylum by the US Embassy in Moscow and moved with her teenage daughter to New York (1987). Participant of many exhibitions in New York, New Jersey, Chicago (USA), and European towns. Member of the Salon des Indépendants in Paris (1989–2000), European Art Group in France (1997–99), and Salon Art Senior (M-me A. Grimaldi) in Monaco. In 1999–2014 recipient of diplomas and medals from Fédération Nationale de la Culture Françaisе. Тheaters: Dixon Place; Joyce’s Theater (NYC). Manhattan Cable TV: Ideas and Images (Reading Armless Mothers dedicated to Mother’s Day). Films: Watch Hamlet (Lew Durasov), Razor of Trebliz, Nuclear Family (Omar Ali Cosma), Bounds (Devin Horan), etc. Member of Russian Writers Club (New York) since 1984. Member of American Pen Center. Wrote memoirs of Malaya Grusinskaya, including of Anatoly Zverev (1990s), entitled Дни Анатолия Зверева (Days of Anatoly Zverev). Author of novels Manuscript found in Upper Bay, or White Horse, Five steps to Resurrection, Landings, and many stories and essays in journals of Russia (Day and Night, Krasnoyarsk; North, Murmansk; Fires of Kusbass, Kemerovo; Dvorzovaya, 26, St. Patersburg), Europe (Bridges, Literature European, Frankfurt), and USA (Slovo-Word, New York; Absinthe, Michigan). Author of a few books in English (Purgatory, Beyond the Little Prince, Siberiada, etc., Xlibris). Lives and works in New York.