HE DOESN'T LOSE BECAUSE HE'S NOT SEEKING TO WIN. Yuri ROST Talent is expendable, intelligence is subject to fatigue over the years, charm also does not increase with age, kindness is gradually replaced by indifference, love by habit, the gift of life by the acquired skill of living... A person becomes dull, tired of wasting energy on preserving the image to which the world around him has accustomed him. Perhaps you don’t have to try very hard to please anymore. You don't even do that!

IN MEMORY OF RIMAS TUMINAS -What would you say to God? - Posner asked at the end of the interview on the eve of the premiere of War and Peace. And tired, sick Tuminas, slightly nudging his interlocutor, said: “Well, where are you, where are you?” Show yourself, it's difficult for us. And He showed up. Rimas Tuminas staged his last great play “War and Peace” on the stage of the Vakhtangov Theater.

When I sadly leaf through the Russian chronicle of the earth, I bless those kings, Under whom we did not wage war. Do you know the author of these poems? Think about it. We'll tell you, you probably know! But you will be more surprised that he also wrote this... Under whom boundaries were not pushed, Under whom capitals were not erected, Rebellions were not pacified, - They were born, lived, died In a remote circle, in their family.

Ilya Kabakov is a witness to the fact that we lived. It's hard to believe now if we hadn't continued to live the same way.

God arranged everything well. He limited the travel time, but not the journey itself. Life is finite, he said, but the desire to live is endless. The possibilities are limitless, the soul is immortal. Go and look! And note to yourself: achieving a goal is meaningless, because it means the end of the road. Movement towards a goal is life. So that you could at least somehow find your bearings, God placed pillars in the manner of the mileposts that have been preserved along the road from St.