Watch this incredible video 24-year-old Kseniya Simonova, and you begin to see the emotional depth and intensity that so many women from the former Soviet Union is, when it comes to art.

Her work is an excellent illustration of the suffering and courage that so often goes hand in hand with history and culture of these women.

Once again I am very glad to see someone with her stunning combination of beauty and talent to get some much-deserved international recognition.

Sand artist Ksenia Simonova, the winner of Ukraine's Got Talent, the Internet becomes a hit

Sand artist Ksenia Simonova, who moved the audience to tears when she won Ukraine's Got Talent, was the online sensation, with more than two million people.

By Ian Johnston - September 19, 2009

Miss Simon, 24, has attracted a number of paintings on the lighted sand table showing how ordinary people have suffered from the German invasion during World War II.

One video clip of its work on television talent show was viewed by two million users alone.

Images projected on the big screen, many in the audience moved to tears, and she won the grand prize of £ 75,000.

It begins with a scene showing a couple sitting holding hands on a bench under a starry sky, but then there are military aircraft and a happy scene is erased.

It is replaced by a person crying woman, but then the child comes and the woman smiles again. Again, war and returned to Ms. Simon's throwing sand in the chaos from which the young woman's face appears.

It quickly becomes old widow, her face wrinkled and sad, before the image is converted into a monument to the Unknown Soldier.

This is an open window frame of the scene is as if the viewer looks at the monument inside the house.

In the final scene, the mother and child appear inside and a man standing on the street, his hands pressed to the glass, saying goodbye.

The Great Patriotic War, as it is called in Ukraine, resulting in one of four people, killing eight to 11 million people in a population of 42 million dollars.