三次親吻俄羅斯

世界著名華人美術家代表團俄羅斯之行，是由世界華人美術家環球繪畫和平之旅組委會主辦，相關國家和地區政府及相關國際機構協辦的大型國際文化交流活動，是至今全球華人美術家最大的藝術交流平臺，其宗旨是保護人類共同文化遺產，促進國際社會和平發展，加強溝通與理解，增進互助與友誼，奉獻愛心與幫助，促進全球華人與國際社會和諧相處。

中俄兩國是山水相連的友好鄰邦，2006年金秋十月，俄羅斯第一次迎來了世界著名華人美術家代表團，這個由中國《美術》雜志主編王仲為團長、世界著名華人美術家環球繪畫和平之旅負責人邵長春為副團長的代表團，在莫斯科和圣彼得堡度過了難忘的8天。

我的俄羅斯情結

作為代表團成員的我，此行意義格外不同，心情也格外興奮，因為我母親是俄羅斯族，在她去世的最后時刻曾對我說，將來一定要代表她到俄羅斯去走一走，看一看，想辦法找到我們的親戚。如今我就要實現母親的遺愿了，又怎么能不激動呢！

聽母親講，我們的家族是沙俄時代的貴族。十月革命以后，6歲大的她隨家人逃到了中國新疆北部城市阿爾泰，她從一個貴族的小公主變成了小乞丐，度過了悲慘的童年。上個世紀60年代初，媽媽和在蘇聯的親戚一直有通信來往，后來中蘇關系交惡和“文革”十年，聯系完全中斷了。1979年全家欲移民澳洲時，母親還再三說，一定要找到在俄羅斯的親戚。但就在此際母親在香港病逝，我們懷著悲痛的心情把未能到達澳洲的母親安葬在香港。

5年后，我在香港開畫展，從60多盆賀展花籃中精心挑出最美的花，重新組成8盆鮮花擺放在母親的墓前，那晚是我在香港期間睡得最甜的一夜。在畫展中，我拜會了聯合國難民署駐香港辦事處的官員，表達了我們全家都希望把母親移葬到墨爾本的心愿。辦事處的官員非常同情地滿足了我們的要求，我們終于把母親安葬在墨爾本東正教的墓地。

在莫斯科期間，我向中國駐俄羅斯大使館的文化參贊、新華社、中新社的記者表達了我要尋找我們在俄羅斯親人的愿望，他們都十分熱情給我介紹情況和提供尋找的線索，這為下一步的查找打下了很好的基礎。

參觀訪問的頭一天下午是我們在俄羅斯唯一的晴天，在陽光的普照下我們游覽了紅場、克里姆林宮并瞻仰了朱可夫元帥的雕像。當我看到華麗壯觀的克里姆林宮時，難以平靜的心更加劇烈的跳動起來，我情不自禁地跪在鋪滿石板的大地上，親吻了克里姆林宮三下。中國新聞社駐俄羅斯首席記者田冰在采訪我時問道：“我知道你是代表團中身份最特殊的一位，能談談你三次親吻俄羅斯大地的感受嗎?”我說：“在我的血管里流動的是偉大的中華民族和偉大的俄羅斯民族的血液，由于這個特殊情結，我的第一吻是代表我母親的心愿；第二吻愿中俄友誼代代相傳；第三吻代表自己，我終于看見了、觸摸了、親吻了我陌生而又向往的土地。”

享受美術大餐

在莫斯科我們參觀了俄羅斯著名的特列奇亞科夫斯基畫廊，并和俄羅斯繪畫大師進行了聯誼交流活動，同時向畫廊贈送了禮品，然后又參觀了俄羅斯國家藝術博物館。我們大家都被這里館藏那么多世界頂級大師的作品而震撼。在博物館里，我們看到了偉大畫家列賓的《伏爾加河纖夫》和《沙布羅斯人給土耳其蘇丹寫信》、蘇里柯夫的《依爾馬克征服西伯利亞》和《攻克血城》、謝米拉得斯基的《有罪的女人》等等大師的真跡，我興奮得每根神經都被高度調動起來，我在他們的作品前專心致志地拜讀一番，分析他們的構圖、用色和如何處理畫面中的各種關系，品嘗了一次實實在在的美術大餐。

我們來到蘇里柯夫美術學院，俄羅斯美術家協會主席希德洛夫教授和院長早已在大門口等候我們了。大家一見如故，像老朋友一樣作了交流座談。院長帶我們參觀了學院，觀摩了院方藏品和學生們的畢業作品，還觀看了學生的人體寫生課。院長自豪地向我介紹了一批又一批的優秀畫家是如何從這個學院走出去的，并向我們贈送了學院的畫集，代表團也向學院贈送了各種繪畫材料。

結束了莫斯科的行程，我們一行又乘火車抵達圣彼得堡（原列寧格勒），在圣彼得堡我們參觀了被稱為世界四大博物館（盧浮宮、大英博物館、紐約大都會博物館）的埃爾米塔什博物館。據稱埃爾塔什博物館藏品之豐堪稱世界第一，曾在列賓美術學院就讀、現為清華大學藝術學院教授的王鐵牛介紹：“如果你在該館的一件藏品前站1分鐘，一天8個小時，一周7天，一個月4周，一年12個月，那么你得用15年時間才可以把所有的藏品看完！這里有世界各個時期所有大師們的作品，你們會為來到這里而興奮失眠。”的確，大家都為能目睹世界第一流大師的真跡而感到震撼、狂喜！在博物館的中國館里，我們看到包括徐悲鴻在內的許多中國大師們的真跡。

代表團在圣彼得堡還參觀列賓美術學院，在學院高大寬敞的學術演講廳里，雙方進行了最高層次的學術研討會，整個研討會充滿了濃厚而熱烈的學術氣氛，大家回顧了中俄過去的美術之路和表達未來美術為人類和平發展的美好愿望。晚上代表團與列賓美術學院進行熱烈的聯歡晚宴，賓主頻頻舉杯祝福，整個聯歡洋溢著兄弟、同行的情意。當查爾金院長得知我有一半俄羅斯血統，便走過來緊緊地和我擁抱在一起。特別值得一提的是，第一位被聘請為列賓美術學院名譽教授的華人畫家姜石侖，也和我們大家歡聚一堂。

飽覽俄國勝景

除了美術方面的活動，代表團在莫斯科還瞻仰了列寧墓和無名烈士墓、勝利廣場和二戰勝利博物館，并和二戰老戰士俱樂部的將軍們聯歡座談，游覽了莫斯科河、耶穌救世主大教堂、瓦西里升天大教堂、伊萬大帝鐘樓、莫斯科大學、集貿市場等景點。

在圣彼得堡，代表團參觀游覽了冬宮、皇宮廣場、凱旋柱、青銅騎士像、圣彼得堡要塞和十月革命的標志“阿芙樂爾”巡洋艦，還游覽了三公里長的步行街。

這次活動得到了中國駐俄羅斯大使館大力支持和熱情接待，我們下榻在大使館內的酒店。最后一天，代表團和大使館進行了聯歡，畫家們精心地為大使館集體創作了“和平之旅”大幅作品。我的馬畫水晶作品作為代表團的禮品，贈送給了大使館公使程國平，程公使很高興地接受了禮品并與我合影留念。

真是“百聞不如一見”，我在出訪期間感覺俄羅斯藝術氣氛很好，即便下雨天，在各類博物館、美術館前排著長龍看展覽的人們秩序井然，無人喧鬧、無人擁擠，人們靜靜地向前移動。在風雪中，你請人幫助拍照，他們會很樂意幫忙，拍完還要求看看拍得如何，若不理想他們會再幫你拍。看來這個民族已度過困難期，一個騰飛時代即將到來。

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姚迪雄，著名澳籍華人畫家，浙江湖州人，1949年生于新疆烏魯木齊，母親是俄羅斯人。他早年“與馬為伍，拜馬為師，胸有活馬”，以畫馬享譽畫壇。1979年移居澳洲，其63米長卷《雙百袋鼠圖》載入吉尼斯世界紀錄，轟動澳洲。他多次應邀回國，在中國53個大中城市成功舉辦個人畫展。

Three Kisses for Russia

By Yao Dixiong

As a member of a delegation of prominent Chinese artists， I paid an 8-day visit to Moscow and St. Petersburg in October 2006. The Russian trip was very special to me， for my mother was a Russian. In the last days of her life， she asked me to visit Russia in the future on her behalf.

My mother said that her family was aristocratic in the years of the Tsar. At the age of six， she fled with her family to Altai in northern Xinjiang after the October Revolution in 1917. No longer a princess， she lived a pauper’s life. In the early 1960s， she still managed to keep in touch with her relatives in Russia. Then the contact was lost completely for ten years when the relations between China and Russia worsened and broke off. In 1979， we were to migrate to Australia， but my mother never reached the new continent. She passed away in Hong Kong and was buried there.

Five years later I held a solo exhibition in Hong Kong. From more than 60 flower baskets sent to my exhibition on the opening day in celebration， I picked the most beautiful flowers and rearranged them into eight baskets and placed them in front of my mother’s tomb. I slept most soundly that night during my stay in Hong Kong. It was during that stay that I met with UN Refugees Agency officials to make arrangements to move my mother’s ashes to Australia.

During my Russian trip， I expressed my wish to the Chinese diplomats and journalists there to find my lost relatives. They briefed me on the general situation about Russia and provided me with helpful clues for further search.

The first afternoon we spent in Russia was the only time we had sunshine during the 8-day tour. In the bright sunshine we visited the Red Square and the Kremlin Palace and the Statue of Marshal Zhukov. My heart throbbed when I stepped into Kremlin. I could not help but knelt down and kissed the palace three times. Replying to a question about my three kisses in an interview later， I explained to a Chinese journalist， “In my veins dances the blood of both the great Chinese nation and the great Russian nation. My first kiss was for my mother’s wish; the second was for the everlasting friendship between China and Russia; the third was for myself: at last I saw， touched， and kissed the unfamiliar land that had been haunting me for long.”In Moscow we visited Tretyakov Gallery and met with Russian art masters there. We presented gifts to the gallery. The large collection of masterpieces at the Russian National Art Museum was amazing. Seeing the authentic paintings by Russian masters， I could feel excitement pulsating strongly inside me. I admired and studied their paintings meticulously. Then we visited Surikov Academy of Fine Arts where we were greeted at the gate by the president of Russian Artists Association. We chatted like old friends. The president showed us around on the campus. We admired the academy’s collection of artworks and students’artworks. We also attended a class of figure sketching.

After Moscow， we took a train trip to St Petersburg. We visited the State Hermitage Museum which holds the world’s largest collection of artworks. A professor from the Qinghua University described the large collection in these words: It would take one as long as 15 years to view the entire collection at the museum if you spend one minute for one artwork， eight hours a day and seven days a week.

The Chinese delegation also visited Ilya Repin Saint Petersburg Academic Institute for Painting， Sculpture and Architecture. The Chinese artists and Russian counterparts held an academic seminar at the spacious lecture hall. The attendees traced the art developments in both China and Russia and expressed the best wishes for peaceful development for humanity through art. In the evening， a banquet was held in celebration of the get-together. Learning that I was half Russian， the president of the institute came over and gave me a bear hug. It was worth mentioning that Jiang Shilun， the very first Chinese artist working as an honorary professor at the institute， also attended the banquet.

In addition to meeting Russian artists and visiting museums， the delegation did a lot of sightseeing in both Moscow and St. Petersburg. We were deeply impressed by the Russian architecture and scenery.

Our 8-day visit was supported and assisted by the Chinese Embassy to Russia. We stayed at the hotel in the embassy. The visiting artists joined hands in creating a painting named A Journey for Peace for the embassy at a good-bye party on the last day of our visit. A crystal artwork of mine was presented as our group’s gift to the embassy.

Seeing is believing. The trip to Moscow and St. Petersburg enabled me to experience a fervent art atmosphere in Russia. Even on rainy days， there were many visitors to art museums. They admired exhibits respectfully， moving courteously and never making any unwelcome noise in the museums. When we asked them to give us a hand in taking our group photos， they were most delighted to help. It seemed to me that the nation had bottomed out from a period of hard time and would take off soon.

(Translated by David)