at the beginning of her career. From 2009 to 2012, Peftiev headed the Belarus Tennis Federation. Max Mirnyi, former No. 1 player in the ATP Doubles Rankings, expressed his gratitude to Peftiev's work as a CEO of Belarus Tennis Federation. Religious heritage Peftiev's contributions to the preservation of Orthodox Christian heritage have been recognised with awards from the Belarusian Orthodox Church. He was a leading sponsor of the Nikolsky Orthodox Church in Tonezh (completed 2015), built to commemorate the site of a Nazi atrocity. History and the arts Peftiev has sponsored and in some cases co-authored a number of art and historical publications, mainly in the historical series "В поисках утраченного" ("In Search of the Lost") by Belorussian historian Vladimir Lihodedov, volumes of which include: "Tadeusz Kosciuszko In Old Postcards And Drawings" "Belarus through the camera lens of the German soldier", on the period during WWI when part of modern Belarus was occupied by German troops "Adam Mickiewicz", on the poet and patriot of Belarus, Poland and Lithuania "Aleksander Nevsky", on the Orthodox churches built in European countries in honor of the Russian saint-prince "State Bank of the Russian Empire in postcards, late 19th-early 20th centuries" "Monuments dedicated to the Patriotic War of 1812" Peftiev co-authored the following: "1812: Chronicles of the Patriotic War in Old Postcards and Drawings", a commemoration of the two-hundredth anniversary of the Russian Campaign of Napoleon I and the Russian Patriotic War of 1812 "Equal-to-the-Apostles Duke Vladimir", a work on Vladimir the Great and his impact on Slavic culture In 2017, a book of maxims by Vladimir Peftiev titled "Maxims of a Man of Schemes" was published with a foreword by the British philosopher and author A. C. Grayling. The foreword says: These striking, amusing and sometimes pungent aphorisms are so full of a certain kind of pragmatic wisdom that I am moved to quote Professor Higgins on Mr Alfred Doolittle: that the latter was "the most original moralist" that the former had encountered for many years. The hard truths of practical life are apt to wring from people of experience a view of how to navigate the maze of routes that lies between desire and success; it is not, invariably, a view for the faint-hearted or those persuaded more by Aristotle than Gordon Gekko; but it will certainly strike a chord with many who have ventured that maze, and will certainly provide a preparation