“Today and daily”-so, a quote from Galich was called the column of Lera Novodvorskaya, written by her for the 90th anniversary of the poet. Today, at midnight, the first channel will show the film by Elena Yakovich to the centenary of Alexander Galich Photo: lip.muszkult.ru It happens. The respectable, outwardly loyal Soviet screenwriter and playwright suddenly leaves the genre, from the role, from the row. What happened in the late 50s with Alexander Galich, former Ginzburg? ...

In the early 1990s, Russia celebrated Independence Day on June 12. Naturally, we owed this holiday to Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin, with whose death joyful democratic holidays ended for us and severe authoritarian everyday life began. No wonder Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote that when a good master dies of a Negro, this is the greatest misfortune, because who can guarantee that this defenseless orphan will not be bought by an evil one at an auction?

The most famous revolutionary of the twentieth century Ernest Che Guevara is 90 years old Ernesto Che Guevara has long been a brand. He must have been a happy man. He lived as he wanted, fought to his heart’s content, did not become a “philistine” and died the way not only he wanted, but also the way almost all real men want: still young, at 39, at the hands of enemies. He died standing and never lived on his knees.

Lyudmila Stefanovna Petrushevskaya turns 80 on May 26 Plays, stories, stories of Lyudmila Petrushevskaya never belonged to the category of "women's literature". She is not a writer, but a writer. Marble, golden letters of names, Eternity. Force breaking through to the foundations of being. Of our contemporaries who write now, and the ink has not dried up yet, only two are quite classics, and in some places even geniuses. Vladimir Sorokin and Lyudmila Petrushevskaya.

St. Petersburg-315 years old Vasily Surikov. “Type of the monument to Peter I on Senate Square in St. Petersburg”, 1870 Photo: RIA Novosti When the Rossiya train, the following route Petersburg - Vladivostok, departs from the platform, the melody of the composer Glier “Anthem of the Great City” sounds. Cold, perfect, silver sounds. And you involuntarily recall the Pushkin’s “Copper Horseman”: “A hard-hard rock on the shocked pavement.” Shocked Rus', shocked by Muscovy, shocked asian quagmire.

and after the convulsive attempts of the OMON teams in Moscow and St. Political insanity is accompanied by fear of the people, snare and did not stick out) one seditious truth became obvious. This power is doomed, and without any extremist activity. After all, dinosaurs died out not from the extremism of mammals, but from their own brainlessness: a brain the size of a nut could not control a huge, voracious, clumsy body.

Ibsen has a play with the name “Youth Union”, quite satirical: about how young people make a career. And in our 60s, everything was serious, although naive, but clean. Andrei Voznesensky and his friends, those who released the Samizdat almanac “Metropol” and was a bit for this, no one will blame a desire to make a career. They were not going to live long: “Oranges, applause ... Breaking - immortal! We were born - do not survive, but squeeze speedometers! ” (Andrey Voznesensky).

Ten or even twelve, if you agree to two very pale pages. Probably, Galich, who wrote that she “takes four copies”, shoved not to her “Erica” in her “Eric”. The cigarette gave 10 copies of the “chronic events” (HTS) from one bookmark. Vladimir Ulyanov would be upset if he found out that not only the Iskra, but also the HTS could be an excellent “collective organizer”. Our dissident world, the real (unlike the false and invented Soviet) was very crowded.

100 years ago, Maurice Dryon, the creator of the “Cursed Kings”, was born. Valeria Novodvorskaya - about the Testament of the writer: remember that unrighteous power is doomed Photo: East News Without us, rarely does it. Especially in France, especially in literature. It turns out that Maurice Druon, historian, writer, academician, hero of the resistance, Minister of Culture under President Pompidu, cavalier of French and foreign orders are also from ours! ..

Valeria Novodvorskaya is about the main secret of life, which is hidden in Pushkin’s novel. Eugene Onegin was written 185 years ago Illustration for Evgeny Onegin from a rare edition of 1911, artist E. Samokish-Sudkovskaya photo: TASS The Spaniards have Spanish Romanisero, which collected all myths and legends about the reconcist and the Great Side. We have something better: “Eugene Onegin”, the St.

April 15 - 85 years since the birth of Boris Strugatsky. Valeria Novodvorskaya - about the sad prophecy of her favorite writers ... In the work of the Strugatskys, starting from the pink dawn "Monday begins on Saturday" and ending with Boris Natanovich's single novel, published in the mid-90s under the pseudonym Vititsky - "Search for Destiny, or the Twenty-seventh Theorem of Ethics", all our life with its timid questions and chilling backhand answers.

Valeria Novodvorskaya - about the mass "molting" of the intelligentsia “Two -legged creatures are millions, we all look at the Napoleons,” Pushkin said. The poet thought too well about humanity. Napoleon is a symbol of good luck, but also great risk. Nowadays, the eyes turn in a completely different direction. With the beginning of the Putin era, many journalists, “rejection” and non -conformists began Link. Democrats, liberals, Westerners fed to statesmen, conservatives and traditionalists.

110 years have come from the birth of Leo of Acceleration - a writer, human rights activist, one of the founders of the Memorial Society Writer Lev Emmanuilovich acceleration Photo: BessMertnybarak.ru April 1, not only funny events happen. This year ( 2008 -NT), the humorous date coincides with the centenary of the birth of Leo Emmanuilovich, who lived for a long time, noble and sensibly-91 years.

Marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of Maxim Gorky - the Petrel of the Revolution, which became a mountaineous Maxim Gorky, of course, had a literary gift, but they did not remember the country where from childhood they drove into the heads of schoolchildren the most mediocre, most harmful nonsense, in which he appears either by party organizer or demoniac: “Song about the Falcon”, “Song of the Bureuremnik”, “Mother”. A joke wandered around the USSR from that stupid opera: “Your mother ...

Norwegian Henrik Ibsen, born 190 years ago, brought to the Russian scene the free -loving spirit of his ancestors of the Vikings Heinrik Ibsen (1828-1906), Norwegian Poet and playwright photo: AFP At the beginning of the 20th century, ibsen was much and willingly put in Russia. And it’s clear why. Ibsen was a free -thought, a frontier, an individualist with a nihilistic vein. And even a subversive element: all his life he advocated for the termination of the union with Sweden.