material: Sergey Gandlevsky illustrations: Asya Lesik Recording of Sergei Gandlevsky's speech at the festival on the occasion of the 5th anniversary of the Demagogue magazine On the next anniversary of the never-ending war, we decided to publish archival recordings of Radio Demagogue - poems by Evgenia Lavut and Sergei Gandlevsky (read by the authors). It seemed to us that these words contain everything about both yesterday and today. Listen in full on our YouTube channel.

material: Sergey Gandlevsky illustrations: Sofia Khananashvili We are starting a series of publications of the “earliest”, even perhaps “too early”. The first text is “Poem of Love,” which Sergei Gandlevsky wrote when he was 10 years old. This is a seven-part poem about the love, battles and suffering of a young man; We publish it with a short introduction by the author. I was, if I’m not mistaken, about ten years old when I fell in love with a beautiful neighbor at my desk, Lyusya V.

And once, and the other heard the stories of shocked compatriots about a calm and continuous summer holiday in the centers of two Russian capitals. The other day I watched the film "Gap of Communication" by Andrei Loshak, took into account the conclusions of political scientist Vladimir Pastukhov about the new Russian historical community Homo Putinus and wanted to share some of his observations and considerations.

Sergey Gandlevsky And once, and the other heard the stories of shocked compatriots about a calm and continuous summer holiday in the centers of two Russian capitals. The other day I watched the film "Gap of Communication" by Andrei Losk, took on the conclusion of political scientist Vladimir Pastukhov about the new Russian historical community "Homo Putinus" and wanted to share some of his observations and considerations.

The famous poet and prose writer Viktor Koval died in Moscow Victor Koval. Photo: Facebook Friends of the first youth Viti Koval were heartbroken, so I will decide to say confused words of farewell. Losing a person forever, you begin to sort out memories.

Tomorrow there are a hundred years since the birth of the poet, playwright, performer of copyright songs by Alexander Galich. The poet Sergei Gandlevsky shared with The Insider with his thoughts on how Galich’s perception is changing over time, and what is his place in Russian poetry. In 1984, emigrant friends bought a fold and sent me a cassette tape recorder Sanyo with an opportunity.

Sergey Gandlevsky. Photo from the site www.vavilon.ru We briefly met in the 90s in America. After some time, he sent a friendly letter to my Moscow, I answered, and we became friends for twenty years. The surrounding people, it seems to me, shared for Peter Vile in his favorites - and everyone else was not in the middle.

Sergey Gandlevsky. Photo from the site www.vavilon.ru Open letter to Leonid Kostyukov Deeply liable Lenya, The other day, I read your program article “Normal Life and its significance”, I found it in many ways wrong, but seductive, and therefore I object to you in public, and not in private.

Sergey Gandlevsky. Photo from the site www.vavilon.ru This is the story of one of my human falls of forty years ago, and at the same time - a whistle sketch of morals of that time.

Lev Losev was and will remain an inaccessible role model for me. We are not talking about poetry now: his caustic, intelligent and sometimes touching to a coma in the throat lyrics will forever be remembered - next to other great poems that you mutter alone or vying to quote in a noisy feast. | | | --- | | Life brought huge blows with broth. So you got to Ultima Thule with his samovar.

Sergey Gandlevsky. Photo from the site www.vavilon.ru I was about ten years old when I was spat in the face. I grew up not at all on "chemistry", but in Moscow, on a moza. The courtyard was like a yard, quite indicative - and therefore, probably, the experience of adolescent humiliation, street and school, is familiar to many people of my generation and older.

Sergey Gandlevsky. Photo from the site www.vavilon.ru There is such a little reader's trick: first run the article diagonally and see what the author quotes, verify tastes. And if quotes do not cause protest, then read the article itself.

Sergey Gandlevsky. Photo from the site www.vavilon.ru At the time of my youth, the Georgian “Legend” was one of the most favorite cultural traditions - and even a kind of cult among the “creative intelligentsia”.