This sequence of photos is to be a part of a big project about talented, strange, amazing people of russian province.
Lidiya Nikolaevna Sherbatenko lives in a small town named Solvychegodsk, north of Archangelsky district.
She raises grandchildren, does the household, in her free time she composes poems and songs.
She doesnt have professional musical education, but she sings in local chorus and learned how to play different instruments on her own.
Furthermore she is also a meteorologist, this is her favourite job to which she dedicated lots of years.
It isn’t long ago since Lidiya Nikolaevna started writing poems, and she strongly believes that these are obtained with the help of God.
She has an icon, which inspires her creativity.
Her poems are quite simple and apprehensible to every villager.
Vera Pokhlebaeva 