The sculpture "Bather"
In the Kherson region Khorly on the peninsula there is a small resort village of the same name. Before the 1917 revolution - a port town that was built thanks to the Russian businesswoman Baroness Sophie Pfalz-Fein. Her family owned and Askania Nova .
Ordinary people appreciated the Baroness for justice and generosity. In Horley there sculpture "Bather", depicting a girl. They say that the sculpture keeps veiled secret family history, in which Sophia Pfalz-Fein played no means angelic role. Although, who knows for sure?
According to one legend, the two sons of Baroness Gustav Friedrich and fell in love with a girl - Seraphim. She died tragically. And her memory stores sculpture. According to another legend, Gustav fell in love with the maid Darya. Baroness mother could not allow unequal marriage. She sent her son abroad, and the girl who sent the negro, who worked in the port, so that he had defiled her. Daria pulled away and ran to the sea to its waves of shame died with her. But Woman rescued fisherman and temporarily hid in his house, started a rumor that she drowned.
Son of Sophia experienced grief and ordered two Italian marble sculptures for fountains - "Bather" and "Seraphim." The second set in New Askanii. After learning about the suffering of his master, a fisherman told him that Daria alive. And Gustav left with his beloved abroad, where they lived happily ever after, but no one discovered the secret of the resurrection Darya.
