vorosheykin.newmail.ru — a personal website of Nizhny Novgorod artist Ivan Vorozheykin, active from at least 2001 to 2003[1][2]. The contact phone number listed on the site carried a Nizhny Novgorod code: "(+7 8312) 51-42-35"[1]. The site was known to the Nizhny Novgorod internet directory nn.ru, where it was listed as "Site of the artist Ivan Vorozheykin."

Watercolor Gallery

The earliest surviving snapshot, from 2001, presented the site as a personal gallery: "Gallery of Ivan Vorozheykin," with the email address vorosheykin@newmail.ru and a list of works — watercolors on paper captioned with title, year, and size. Among the paintings listed on the home page were "Morning. Fog. 1998," "Old Road. 1997," "Birds Flying Away. 1998," "Overcast Day. 1999," "Spring 2001," "Mushroom Spot. 1998," and "Waterfall. 1999"[1].

"Svetlaya Rus": Expansion to a Guild

By 2003 the site had changed format: the home page now presented it not as a personal artist's page but as a venue for the "Svetlaya Rus Creative Initiative Guild" ("Light Rus"), featuring a sale exhibition of paintings, toys, and birch-bark items. The page listed sections titled "Watercolor Gallery" (by Ivan Vorozheykin) and "Svetlana Vorozheykina's Picture Gallery," and also mentioned Olga Kravchuk with the caption "What Enchanted Ivan Vorozheykin"[2]. According to the site's description in the nn.ru directory, the project also included Batik, birch-bark items from the Belyakov workshop, and dolls made by Irina Gromova. No vote counter data was recorded in the surviving snapshot.

Fate of the Domain

The last snapshot preserved in the web archive is dated March 2009; by that point the content of the home page no longer had anything to do with either the paintings or the "Svetlaya Rus" guild — it had become a page collecting greeting texts and keyword phrases for February 23 (Defender of the Fatherland Day), typical of domains that had passed into the control of advertising or search-spam operations[3]. The material contains no precise information on when or under what circumstances the domain changed hands; it is only known that between the 2003 snapshot and the 2009 snapshot the site's content changed completely.

Sources

  1. web.archive.org — Home page, 2001 (archive)
  2. web.archive.org — Home page, 2003 (archive)
  3. web.archive.org — Home page, 2009 (archive)