Page 110: Dmitri and Anya Poliakoff
The Unfolding
Northwestern Media
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🗓️ 26 November 2021
⏱️ 33 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Page 110 of the unfolding is the story of Dimitri and Anya Pollyakov. |
| 0:05.0 | In one hand, our government was telling us that the Bible is a bunch of fair tales and full of superstition. |
| 0:11.0 | And in the other hand, here's the artist that we admire, we study, and at the same time, we despise something that they held so dear. |
| 0:19.0 | God's story has been unfolding. |
| 0:22.6 | Since the beginning of time. |
| 0:26.6 | He invites you to be a part of it. |
| 0:30.6 | Another page in the unfolding. |
| 0:47.9 | Hey, this is Meredith Foster. |
| 0:51.8 | Dmitri and Anya Pollyakov grew up in the USSR. |
| 0:56.0 | It was the largest country in the world at the time, governed by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Officially, the state religion was atheism. From the time they |
| 1:01.8 | were young, they'd been told there is no God, but they were restoration artists who studied |
| 1:07.5 | some of the greatest painters in the history of art. And many of those paintings depicted the story of Jesus. |
| 1:13.9 | But Dimitri and Anya had no idea. |
| 1:16.8 | The truth was right in front of them, |
| 1:18.7 | but they had never heard the story of God's love for them. |
| 1:22.8 | So who were you before? |
| 1:24.3 | What was your life like? |
| 1:25.4 | We were restoration artists. |
| 1:26.8 | We worked with the art in St. Petersburg, and there's some of the world-famous museums there, Hermitage, and Catherine's Palace and Pushkin, Peterhof, and a Russian museum. |
| 1:40.4 | I mean, there's a lot of beauty, and this beauty predominantly was a religious theme. |
| 1:48.5 | Yeah. Were you religious? Well, we were product of our time. We were born in the USSR. It's sort of our |
| 1:56.4 | version of Babylon. So, atheism was pretty much much state religion and that's really our background, |
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