A depiction of person with mustache removed from Ales Pushkin’s exhibition (Photo)

In Uladzimir Karatkevich’s museum censors removed a stand with photo reproductions of paintings in the Orthodox Church in the village of Bobr, which were painted over not long ago.

The paining depicted figures of sinners near the gate of the Hell, and among them were persons resembling Alyaksandr Lukashenka and Metropolitan Philaret, as well as riot policemen in camouflage regions.by web resource informs.

The exhibition was opened on February 22, when the 20th anniversary of pullout of Soviet Army from Afghanistan was marked in the country. Ales Pushkin served there in a helicopter regiment. One of the stands was dedicated to the war: there were photographs from archives of the artist, an official instruction sheet to a Soviet warrior against the background of a secret map of Kabul with the marks of deployment of Soviet troops.

Besides, Ales Pushkin demonstrated icons, paintings in Orthodox and Catholic churches of Belarus. Copes and photographs of them were presented, but there were also a few originals. The exhibition opens with an image of Our Lady of Vorsha, copied by the artist from a reproduction of a miracle-making icon of the 18th century, which belonged to the Kutseinsky Assumption convent in Vorsha once.

It is expected that the exhibition will last until March 18.