All right, welcome. We are here today to talk to Father Vladimir Katernov. Father Vladimir has a

special connection to the Florence Academy, and we're going to be talking about that today. He's going to

give us some insights into his approach to the history of and the techniques of Renaissance art. And so I'm going to let him give a little introduction

as to what he's into, what he does, his specialty,

and how he got into this.

And then we'll kind of launch into discussing the images

and the presentation that he deals with at the Florence Academy.

Yes, thank you, Jay.

It's a pleasure being on your show.

I'm a big fan.

Thank you.

And this is the day I am with you on the show

as a participant and I'm very excited.

I serve as an Orthodox priest in a Russian church outside of Russia in Florida, near St. August

in Florida, in Palm Coast.

And my church is called St. Nicholas, Russian Orthodox Church, after the St. Nicholas.

And my connection to Renaissance and to art is a kind of a long story in a way.

And I was going to try to tell it in the context of connection between Russia and Europe in artistic tradition and academic tradition.

And I've prepared some what I thought were beautiful images to kind of help us move

along this path. And we can begin to look at some pictures starting right away or if you have a little more questions you would like to

ask no that's fine let's get into it so you begin your presentation you talk about uh russian succession

and then we'll look at this image here of moscow kremlin rebuilt in 1482 to 1495.

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