From clay pixel to metal monster

As the autumn holidays approached, THE 1 st-5 th grade school students of THE Audriņu primary school went to Preiļi under the “Latvian School Finish” programme. When the rain rains and blows an unpleasant wind, the mood is not the most pleasant. It was our journey that could be said without a particular delight. However, when they sank the destination in Preilos, the children noticed that not only the head of the exhibition, but also the bright autumn sun, was waiting for them at Polycarp Chernavsky's ceramic house.

When entering the simple house, it was discovered that it was actually an exhibition hall, where the exhibition “life in circles” created by the Museum of Prevention of Prevention and Applied Art could be acquainted with Silaian ceramic masters Polycarp Chernavsky. The exhibition is designed to allow visitors to meet ceramic articles, ranging from simple housekeepers to sophisticated and complex forms of decorative ceramics, to be pleased with the masters' color game and the variety of rotating characters. The pupils watched a short film that reflected real events when the industrial plant workers came to the masters. A great deal of surprise in the pupils was caused by the scenes of the film, in which the master, when he came out of the bakery, found, in his view, the scrap of the scrap, the scrap of the scraps. There was no large candlestick between the objects of the exhibition, which had 19 junks. It turns out that one of the big candles made by the master is even in Vatican. In the workshop, it was possible to look at the podman's surface, working as a masters who had “scratched the splashes” with a snake. The pupils made clay medals with their own tastes.

The journey continued to the greatest pride of the Preil History Heritage - the Preil Manor complex with the beautiful park. The area of the Preil Park is 41 ha, 13 ha of which are occupied by park ponds and channels, there are 25 species trees and bushes, among them several beds. The building of Preille Manor is an architectural monument of national significance – the castle, Kapel, the stallis, the gatehouse. Some of the objects have restored jobs that have already been restored, but unfortunately an object has been permanently lost, it has been broken by the tooth of the time. The leader of the excursion told not only the legend of the life of the great Count Borhu, for example, the fact that the wind was coughing through the windows of the Castle of Preiles, and that lonely wind is a credible white county ghost. The legend reports that the woman hung in the rounded tower of the castle because of her unhappy love. Since that day, at midnight at midnight, there was a dim light in the tower of the castle, showing the visitors of the castle about the opportunity to meet the mysterious housekeeper. An interesting legend about the digging of the palace ponds in the form of the Count Monogram. There is still a legend about the coffin of the asynchronous and brutal county coffin in the chapel … it can still be continued, because there was a shorter or longer legend at each inspection facility. The pupils listened enthusiastically, asked questions, showed interest.

The next stop is the metal art gallery “Nester Custom”. The galleries exhibit restored or completely newly built motorcycles and sculptures and interior objects from old motorcycles and car components. You can play a metal chess or settle in a stylised cafe. Today, any interesting moment of life or object is photographed. That's what happened in the art gallery. If the exponents were able to speak, they could specify how many times the children came and kept them with themselves, together with friends and only the exponents themselves. The head of the gallery, with a smile, followed the children's movement through the gallery, as the excitement in their faces was read at once.

Thank you for the programme “Latvian School Finish” about the opportunity to travel, see and enjoy Latgale wealth, about the opportunity to see how talented people are in our Latvia.

Audriņu primary school teacher Ivetas Rundanes text and photo