Grev Kafi is the pseudonym of two symbolist painters, Evdokia Fidel'skaya and Grigoriy Kabachnyi, a married couple, that work in co-authorship. After the graduation from a University of Fine Arts, they lived 15 years in Tian Shan mountains, where they have got acquainted with the Sacred Teaching of the East, “The Secret Doctrine” of H.P. Blavatsky. That was the (soviet) time when people got punished for reading such books; therefore their reading was confidential. They were looking for this book all their life, but when the time came, the book itself “has found” them! It caused such a delight, such happiness that painters’ world outlook has changed! They began to study all major religions and philosophies of the world. Painters’ creativity began to address new subjects with philosophical underlying ideas. They were not understood nor accepted, but they worked hardly, lived very modestly and all the earned money was spent on canvas, paint, books and travel.

But the time has passed and in the life of the country (Soviet Union) many things began to change. In the late eighties painters’ art have undergone rising success, and they began to participate in Republican (Moldova) and all-Union exhibitions, to organize series of personal exhibitions in Chisinau, Moscow and other cities. Their creations can be found in many cities of the world and at the Theosophical Society in Adyar, India.