31.12.2025

We dedicate our family calendar for 2026 “The Blessed Works” to mark the 100 anniversary of our needlewoman, Svetlana Babushkina. We accompany her creations with the poems by one of the most signifi cant Russian poets Anna Akhmatova, from whose poem “To an Artist” we choose the title of the calendar, which refl ects with our feelings when we look at the art by needle we inherited:

Your paintings still before mine eyes are fl oating,
Your blessed works, that ever with me stay:
The ever-autumn lindens’ gilded coating,
The blue of water made by you today.

Translation by John Woodsworth