…Turaev’s painting is a placer of colored dreams and fantasies about eastern themes

where one can hardly separate the Caucasian from the Tajik, a modern view from a masterly stylization in the spirit if the Hera or Thebrese school; the Leningrad school there with is not only and not so much Moiseenko’s workshop, as the Hermitage or the Russian Museum, but, moreover, exhibitions, journals, meetings in the workshops, discussions, night0time talks- all these are the way to a fantastic transformation of everyday but permanently exciting vital images and reminiscences. Turaev’s paintings can be non-graphic, like cloth, carpet, ceramics; they can be symbolic, like “The lake” or “At the wall”, where the main thing is not the lake or the wall, but the mood of the people undergoing through hard and decisive times of their lives. A painting can even be iconographic, historical or literary, like “Judith”, but it deals not with the history or a legend, but with a man who has met an invisible and