Victor Mizgiryov met me at the gate of the crowded Izmailovo "Vernissage" and confidently led deep into the complex: "There's a lot of people on weekends, Not everyone finds the right way. " Soon we stopped at a large iron door with a sign "The Forge".
Until now I was only in large forging departments of large plants, and just imagine how could look forge a creative person. Behind the door, I saw exactly what drew me to my imagination: просторное помещение, несколько усыпанных крошевом окалины наковален, пышущий жаром горн, у которого висит множество щипцов разной формы. На верстаках – tools and cutting metal. However, instead of dyuzhego fellow-blacksmith in the smithy was a hydraulic hammer.
As I looked around, Victor has already managed to put on gloves and throw in the oven portion of the coal. "Well, you're wondering what to show?". It was very interesting just to watch the process, but to see the birth of a piece of metal strip of something historic was just above my expectations.
Victor, without thinking twice, said that it will forge a couple of loops and zasopozhny knife novogorodets. With these words the blacksmith to work. A few bands have gone to bask in the furnace.
Slowly We got to talking with Victor, and I asked him how he became a blacksmith.
- quite by accident. I was still engaged in restoration, and it took me a sly chisel - So clever that you will not find anywhere else such. Is it that most do. That's how I got into a smithy. And then of itself has gone.
Victor deftly grabs forceps incandescent strip of metal from the furnace and continues to tell how the case forced him to replace the blacksmith in his native Great Ustyug.
As operate modern blacksmiths
- Sometimes, seventy-two hours from the furnace did not leave. How else? The most suffering on the floor is such a mountain of plowshares and all the curves - In the morning need to rectify. Well, the furnace was such that it was possible for the five pieces at a time warming. But then fell out with the head of production. He told me plainly: "You will not find a job here." I'm right when it called my friends in Tula - asked whether they need a blacksmith. And it turned out that we needed. I have all eleven specialties, so that the unemployed do not stay.
Under the blows of the hammer band dutifully change shape, appear the first outlines of the future of the knife.
- I generally lucky with education. When seven years old, my grandfather gave me the ax and said: "All grown up. Now the wood - your duty. " And so it happened that I first started to cut, then - the adze, and to twelve years resigned his first bath. A to eighteen - first home.
Victor gets out of the oven a new luminous strip of metal and begins to make a loop out of it: putting an end to a chisel and hammer tail separates into two bands. Then, quickly and accurately wielding a hammer, he sharpens each tail and turns it into a circular curl.
How do modern blacksmiths
- Well, how did you come to the reconstruction? - I ask, knowing the passion of Victor in military history.
- One went to an interesting festival. I really liked it there: the guys chopped, historical costumes themselves are doing. Well, too, decided to try it. I used to be tightly engaged in martial arts, but then got injured and had to stop.
It includes hammer and starts utonyat part of the future knife - do shank. When the hammer hits subside, Victor tells his teacher of martial arts first explained how to treat injuries, sprains and dislocations, and only then moved to the development of fighting techniques: "Here you are now maim each other, and to raise on your feet you will have nobody. "
«Look, now it will be interesting. Few cut off the workpiece for the hammer, but I'd rather like it - and you can more accurately and we can do it alone »
- I got in a fight between the heel edge. Coach right there and then my vertebrae at the right place - I do not lay a single day. But he did not doctor and not a magician: One morning I woke up and could not. I had to turn to doctors, so they do not believe that I myself came to them. Nearly a disabled not recorded.
here helped me a grandfather, I do not know anyone else alive. I came to him, told him what and how. He made me at first to coach and istopit water bath. Then there in a bath made out of bones and assembled again.
long before me the story unfolds the life of Victor, a strip of metal is gradually turned into a one-piece forged knife, and two others - in the loop.
«Knife - Dream reenactors»
- Well, now we've done for you a small souvenir - a keepsake. Simple little thing, but it made all the artists trudge: say, contemporary art.
Victor rummaging in a pile of metal scraps and pulls out a small rod. "That's out of it we'll make a bug." He attached a piece of metal original form, and then instructs the chisel and teams: Bey. A few strokes, and metal remain deep marks - wings, legs, points on the wings and eyes. "I have these beetles children do. Nothing complicated, but once you understand how you can with the metal work. "
- What can you pin down the knife or sword - I already knew. But what are usually simple people who are not reenactors bought?
- mostly grate, tongs, a different tool. Sometimes bought things like decorative wrought roses. I'm doing the fender - I have there will be a fairy tale "Fly-Tsokotuha. I did some sketches, and ordered it had agreed to this. Now, where do I come up with: this is my story and I fill it with details.
On the road from the forge we had a long talk about everything in a row: the woods and the pictures of animals and hunting, reenactors and history of Russia. "I rarely name for the Great Ustyug, so just keep track of the pedigree. I know that my family was not serfs. All the people were free, and all - the master. "
And I can say: Victor worth continuing the tradition of their ancestors.
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