Excerpts from a conversation with Natalya Mikhailovna:
“You should have been here in September! For two weeks cultural life takes place with all arts and humanities, then from morning till night we have events, competitions, performances and so on. There is probably no such huge forum in the whole post-Soviet space. In May we also have Volozhin readings.
Many people who stayed here changed their lives. Voloshin was able to help other people find their way. This was his main mission. Many visitors to this house were greatly influenced by their stay here, whether weeks or hours.
Voloshin Is a symbol of Crimea, but not only Crimea. His house can exist only here, it inscribes itself in this landscape.From one side it stands next to Karadag, the volcanic mountain from Jurassic times, of which there are only three in the world, on the other side the mountain Кучук-Янышар, the portrait of Voloshin- a huge installation of nature — and then here stands this filigree house, which was the only one that survived next to his mother’s house, everything else was devastated in Koktebel.”