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Cardboard heroes
The sphere of culture is that in Russia to a large extent not controlled by the authorities. But here changes are planned.
The sphere of culture is that in Russia to a large extent not controlled by the authorities. But here changes are planned.
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Previously, the Cossacks wrote letters to the Turkish Sultan. Now they write letters to the directors of museums. It seems to be progress. But the content of what was written is such that it would be better if the Cossacks wrote letters to the Turkish Sultan.
It seems that the pendulum swayed towards darkness. The St. Petersburg Cossacks canceled the monoscope of the St. Petersburg artist Leonid Merevoye “Lolita” according to the novel by Vladimir Nabokov . In any case, from the messages of the leaders of the St. Petersburg Museum of Modern Art of Erart, it follows that a letter of angry Cossacks was received, to which Leonid Mozgova listened.
However, there is a second version: a letter is a fake. However, the performance was really canceled. And soon another “Cossack” letter appeared, this time concerning another museum - the Hermitage and its director Mikhail Piotrovsky (“We, who made a letter against the play“ Lolit ”according to the God -dimensional work of the Satanic Author of Nabokov, we want to make a statement ...”). In this letter, people who call themselves the Cossacks, in connection with the exhibition “The End of the Fun” by British artists Jake and Dinos Chapmens, ask Mikhail Piotrovsky to change their minds (“In the original :“ Take a think to think it over ”).
Whoever stood behind these letters, but the ground for the appearance of such messages in Russia has recently been really created. Around the full fields of fertilizers thrown into this soil.
In general, the end of fun.
"This actor was not afraid to play Hitler"
Leonid Mozgovoy has repeatedly played his monopsy in Pskov. It did without incident. Including in February 2012, when Mozart and Salieri played the Mozgovoy, Alexander Pushkin .
With Lolita Mozgovoy first performed on stage back in 1985. It was also a difficult time. The letters then preferred to write not to the Sultans and not to the directors of museums, but immediately to the KGB.
A year before, in 1984, in the same Leningrad, he was sentenced to 7 years of camps and 3 years of exile, candidate of philological sciences, Mikhail Meilay . During a 10-hour search conducted in the apartment of Meilah during his arrest, the books of Vladimir Nabokov, Anna Akhmatova and Osip Mandelstam *were seized. * In the case, about a hundred people who read Nabokov, Akhmatov Imandelstam were interrogated .
Meilah was accused of distributing books published abroad (Article 70 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR), and he received a term that even the killers do not always receive.
In 2012, they are not planted for Nabokov yet. The pendulum swayed, but has not yet reached a critical point. And yet censorship has already earned. The “voice of the indignant people” sounds louder and quarrel.
The play "Lolita" was supposed to be played on October 21, 2012 at the St. Petersburg Museum of Modern Art "Erarta".
However, a warning shot was made in the form of a letter to the director of the museum.
“We know what V.V. Nabokov wrote about in this book, offending all decent people ...”, - wrote a Cossack by the name of Dygern and his like -minded people (although the option is that Dygern is a fictional character is also not excluded).
Not sure that Mr. Dygern (if he exists) knows what Nabokov wrote about. After all, about the film "Moloch" Alexander Sokurov , in which Leonid Mozgova was shot, Cossacks are also written in this letter. It does not follow from this text that they saw at least one frame from any Sokurov film.
The “Cossack letter” says: “We ask you to pay attention to the personality of the actor employed in the production - this actor was not afraid to play Hitler [ 1 ] as a positive character with the director - a famous propagandist of sodomy ...”.
The propagandist of sodomy means Alexander Sokurov, and the “positive character of Hitler”, it turns out, is the hero of his film “Moloch”.
The Cossacks who signed the letter and the primary school teachers and students joined them with some suspiciously identical handwriting and perverted ideas about positive heroes. With such ideas, only letters-forms are written.
Cossacks have where to walk around. It is not necessary to go to the horse on a horse. It is enough to grab a saber or nagike and sit down to write a letter. Suppose Leonid Broneva was not afraid to play Henry Müller , and Oleg Tabakov , Walter Schellenberg .
Isn't it time to do them?
"The museum was ready to ensure the maximum safety of its visitors"
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In the meantime, the Directorate of the Museum of Contemporary Art "Erarta" hung an announcement: “Dear friends! We are forced to inform you of the cancellation, for reasons beyond our control, the play "Lolita", which was supposed to take place on October 21. The decision to cancel was made by the artist Leonid Mozgov and the organizers of the performance. The Erarta Museum was ready to accept the performance on its site and ensure the maximum safety of its visitors for the duration of its holding. ”
Leonid Mozgova commented on what happened .
“You know, I do not like to tease geese, ” he said . - Friends called, they found vulgarity on the Internet about me ... I am an actor in this performance, I have been playing since 1985. This literary evening is a monologue-performance, only I am there. The director of the production, unfortunately, the deceased * Kirill Chernozemov , a classmate * Alice Freindlich . I fulfill quite chastely, as I was told on the artistic council. There is no vulgarity ... I do not want to call the Cossacks, but they are people nearby people who do not know culture, with such chauvinistic views ... I do not like to contact such people, why do I need it. This is a scum. " [ 2 ]
The Cossack Dygern responded quickly. “Mostly we are grateful to Leonid Mozgovoy for a reasonable decision - to cancel our performance ,” he and his associates wrote. - Apparently a few years after the sinful picture, the concept of honor and morality came to him, and it will count him. We are grateful to him and the organizers who went cancellation. ”
The organizer of the performance Artyom Suslov announced: “We, the organizers, could not do anything - we had fears for the safety of the artist and spectators. In addition, the artist should not play with the back thought that the provocateurs can come and hit him. He would play badly, and that would be a bad performance. Tickets are returned. See you! "
It is Artyom Suslov that some spectators now accuse that he inspired Cossack letters.
Suslov, of course, is capable of very dubious actions. He created such a reputation for several years. However, before, no one would have believed in Cossack letters, and even more so - he would not have taken seriously. And now, in the fall of 2012, this has become in the order of things.
The motive with which Leonid Mozgova explained his unwillingness to play the performance: “You can’t argue with the cattle. With a cattle, talking about Sokurov and Nabokov. ”
He said and immediately ran into accusations that "a real cultural person, an intellectual would never allow himself to publicly call the cattle people."
Under the people, presumably, they had in mind the signing the letter. Does this follow that everyone who did not sign this letter is not a people?
And who imposed age -related restrictions on the performance of Rachmaninov's music? The fact is that in the Great Hall of the Philharmonic of St. Petersburg a concert from the works of Sergei Rachmaninov (3rd piano concert and the 2nd symphony) is marked “16+”. The opera “Boris Godunov” was awarded the same notes at the Mariinsky Theater.
The note 16+ has nothing to do with a musical record. So the version that the “16+” note made by the composer’s hand was found in the notost notes of Rachmaninov was not confirmed.
“16+” is just age restrictions. But the restrictions on age, as the “brainstorming” shows, is not a guarantee that the idea will certainly take place.
"The image of Christ in the opera is transferred distorted"
In the second “Cossack letter”, sent to the State Hermitage, there is a funny line: “We did not indicate our phones and addresses that, on the contrary, they will arrange an ambush, beat ...”
It turns out that the Cossacks are afraid that they will arrange an ambush and beat them. Who exactly? Maybe Sokurov and Piotrovsky? Or brain? Or all three? They will gather, choose something from the Hermitage collection more heavier and go to the gateway-to sort things out.
Not so long ago, other Cossacks - the Don ones, turned to the prosecutor’s office demanding to cancel the opera Jesus Christ - Superstar Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice in the Rostov Regional Philharmonic.
Cossacks believe that "the image of Christ in the opera is transmitted distorted from the point of view of Christianity." The leadership of the local Philharmonic, without waiting for the completion of the prosecutor’s inspection, quickly stated that the performance would not take place.
Something similar happened in the spring of 2009 in Pskov.
On May 5, 2009, the Drama Theater of the St. Petersburg State Theater "Rock-Oper" was intended to show the rock operator "Jesus Christ-Superstar". There was nothing revolutionary in this. In the fall of 2004, the same theater already represented the same rock-opera in Pskov. The world did not turn over.
But in 2009, the second coming did not happen.
The posters were pasted throughout the city. Tickets have been sold since the beginning of April. But then suddenly the statement of the Deputy Director of the Rock Opera Theater Tamara Malysheva followed. According to Ms. Malysheva, "the chairman of the State Committee of the Pskov Region for the culture of Zinaida Ivanov demanded to replace." The reason for this replacement was also called. As if, “the Pskov diocese has banned” [ 3 ] .
However, the director of the Pskov Academic Drama Theater named after Pushkin Tatyana Komissarovskaya tried to refute the words of Tamara Malysheva. The church, according to Ms. Komissarovskaya, has nothing to do with it, simply “is too light in the hall” and the technical capabilities of the theater do not allow this rock opera to show.
This answer was puzzled. What does it mean - "the hall is too light"? And what are such "technical capabilities "? Maybe the switches do not work?
As a result, instead of the inadvertible rock opera “Jesus Christ-Superstar” in Pskov, the political correct rock opera “Juno and Avos” was secondly shown.
And from the performance that was failed in Pskov there was only a photograph of the poster against the background of the Trinity Cathedral.
Here, perhaps, it is appropriate to quote the libretto of Tim Rice (namely , “The Conspiracy of Anna and Caiaffes”) translated by Grigory Kruzhkov and Marina Boroditskaya:
CAIAFA. How much can you wait? It's time to decide!
Anna. What are we afraid of? Caiafa, give only the deadline! Those that he carried away will come to their senses soon.
CAIAFA. Jizus is dangerous to us! .. In the meantime, we are conducting empty conversations.
Anna. Why take a toy from children. Let them amuse themselves with their illusion. There is time ...
CAIAFA. He leads to a split! I am not entitled to retreat. To survive, you must be at the same time as before. Is it not clear that the priesthood can fall. If we lose power, death is inevitable!
Anna. Report the advice! Do not explain too much, think over everything well ...
CAIAFA. So they decided.
Anna. So they decided. ”
I’m afraid that “Caiaphas and Anna’s conspiracy” almost literally reproduces the current meetings of Russian officials, on which it depends on showing or not showing one or another controversial exhibition, a play, a film ... It seems to be a toy? On the other hand, "E kli we will lose power, death is inevitable!"
After all, the sphere of culture is that in Russia it is still largely uncontrolled by the authorities. It is difficult to declare censorship directly. But always at hand there are real or invented Cossacks (emitted Cossacks), the “Orthodox community”, the people (certainly with the capital “H”).
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“It is difficult for me to imagine the regime, the liberal, totalitarian one, in my stiff homeland, in which censorship would miss Lolita,” wrote Vladimir Nabokov in the afterword for the Russian publication of 1965, published abroad. And there, he speaks with squeamishness about the invented book Cossacks (“Cardboard Quiet Donets on the Cardboard Tails-Continces”), “About which foreign Russians read bored.”
And now the time has come when cardboard Cossacks or their shadows, waving tails-supports, materialized in the “stiff homeland”. Their cardboard time came.
Alexey Semenov
1 Lenin in the film "Taurus" Alexander Sokurov Leonid Mozgova was also not afraid to play.
2 See: Leonid Mozgovoy about the abolition of "Lolita": I do not like to tease geese "// Fontanka.ru, 10/20/2012
3 See: M. Kiselev. A cross was placed on a rock window // “PG”, No. 17 (438) dated May 6-13, 2009