she was a nineteen-year-old art student , impressed with the work of Dorothy Day .
He was given the title of `` Distinguished Cultural Workerbusiness.employment_tenurethe Karelian Republic '' in 1992 , a medal and a diploma named after T. G Ryabinin for `` Enlightenment Work in the Russian North '' ( 1995 ) and an award from the Open Society Institute of George Soros for `` His Devoted Work '' .