Dasha Kuznetsova and Dmitry Khvorostov
Secret room at the Richter hotel, Moscow
9 October – 24 October 2021
At the summit of the sacred Everest, where snow is born and where the sky touches the earth, the dragon Tianlong hatched from a giant golden egg. When he was born, he instantly fell asleep and slept for 10,000 years, and after awakening for another 10,000 years, he huddled in a malachite nest, waiting for a drop of above-moon dew to revive his wings. When Tianlong tried to take off and for the first time he hesitantly flapped his wings, the ever-yellow sky turned black, and a huge cosmic funnel unfolded the movement of the planets. When Tianlong made a second sweep, the water that lived above the moon collapsed to the ground and flooded the dry plains. When Tianlong flapped his wings for the third time and flew over Everest, the red sun exploded into a thousand comets, and the day came.
Having completely re-assembled the image of the planet several times as a result of his terromorphic experiments, the matured Tianlong began the service of preserving the finest energy balances of the Earth. Dwelling physically between the Chinese land and the Chinese sun, Tianlong rarely found himself on the lands to the west of Everest, especially since it was believed that the kingdom of shadows and evil spirits was spread there.
One day, the young Chinese Emperor, walking through his uterine dreams, turned to a dragon flying by: "O Great Tianlong, please take me to the kingdom of shadows, for I believe that I am brave and courageous like none of my warriors."
The dragon fulfilled the Emperor's will, they flew west, and no one else met them. A terrible rumor was spreading, as if Tianlong got lost, lost the Emperor, and fell exhausted somewhere in the black mountains in a country where eternal twilight reigns. Waking up in the evening, coughing up black muck, experiencing irreversible mutations, the dragon crawled towards the lights flickering in the distance. It was a small town, and the people who lived there celebrated some kind of holiday. People saw a crawling giant snake and attacked it in terror, beating it with swords and piercing it with spears. The serpent escaped, crawled back into the black mountains to heal his wounds. Since then, the battle of the serpent with the people began. Descriptions of those events have come down to you in the form of a Christian legend about a miracle performed by St. George, who killed the cursed serpent. But as you know, the snake did not die. Filled with anger and hatred towards people, having forgotten about his good destiny, he periodically descends from the mountains in various guises, poisons and destroys everything connected with man.
In the Serbian Orthodox Apocrypha, there is a description of the three dreams of St. George, in which he dreams that he has become a dragon, and dies pierced by a spear.
Secret room at the Richter hotel, Moscow
9 October – 24 October 2021
At the summit of the sacred Everest, where snow is born and where the sky touches the earth, the dragon Tianlong hatched from a giant golden egg. When he was born, he instantly fell asleep and slept for 10,000 years, and after awakening for another 10,000 years, he huddled in a malachite nest, waiting for a drop of above-moon dew to revive his wings. When Tianlong tried to take off and for the first time he hesitantly flapped his wings, the ever-yellow sky turned black, and a huge cosmic funnel unfolded the movement of the planets. When Tianlong made a second sweep, the water that lived above the moon collapsed to the ground and flooded the dry plains. When Tianlong flapped his wings for the third time and flew over Everest, the red sun exploded into a thousand comets, and the day came.
Having completely re-assembled the image of the planet several times as a result of his terromorphic experiments, the matured Tianlong began the service of preserving the finest energy balances of the Earth. Dwelling physically between the Chinese land and the Chinese sun, Tianlong rarely found himself on the lands to the west of Everest, especially since it was believed that the kingdom of shadows and evil spirits was spread there.
One day, the young Chinese Emperor, walking through his uterine dreams, turned to a dragon flying by: "O Great Tianlong, please take me to the kingdom of shadows, for I believe that I am brave and courageous like none of my warriors."
The dragon fulfilled the Emperor's will, they flew west, and no one else met them. A terrible rumor was spreading, as if Tianlong got lost, lost the Emperor, and fell exhausted somewhere in the black mountains in a country where eternal twilight reigns. Waking up in the evening, coughing up black muck, experiencing irreversible mutations, the dragon crawled towards the lights flickering in the distance. It was a small town, and the people who lived there celebrated some kind of holiday. People saw a crawling giant snake and attacked it in terror, beating it with swords and piercing it with spears. The serpent escaped, crawled back into the black mountains to heal his wounds. Since then, the battle of the serpent with the people began. Descriptions of those events have come down to you in the form of a Christian legend about a miracle performed by St. George, who killed the cursed serpent. But as you know, the snake did not die. Filled with anger and hatred towards people, having forgotten about his good destiny, he periodically descends from the mountains in various guises, poisons and destroys everything connected with man.
In the Serbian Orthodox Apocrypha, there is a description of the three dreams of St. George, in which he dreams that he has become a dragon, and dies pierced by a spear.
