Era in television history

Galina Mikhailovna Shergova - director, producer, writer, author of a dozen books and two hundred films, winner of combat orders and medals, laureate of many professional film a cinema and the TEFI prize in the nomination “Legend of Russian Television”, passed away .

The daughter of a doctor, sympathizing with the Mensheviks and somehow, apparently, by chance not shot in the 30s. A student of the Literary Institute, who was friends with the IFLIANs Alexander Mezhirov, Semen Gudzenko, Boris Slutsky, Sergey Narovchatov. At the front she was at seventeen, she is a liths in an army newspaper. A severe wound. Hospital.

Then - a correspondent of Komsomolskaya Pravda, Light, the magazine "Durgus". And then - half a century on television. The host, documentary director, screenwriter, playwright, leader-would now say “producer”-films and multi-part cycles. Among them, “Our Biography”, “Victory Strategy” is milestones in the history of domestic television.

"In journalism, impersonality is not cash." Semyon Narignani Galina Mikhailovna repeated this commandment of her first editor in Komsomolskaya Pravda with a laugh. Shergova is an era, without quotes, but about her "star" usually joked. I always translated the conversation: "Well, talk about your successes." Poems-leders to friends, epigrams, jokes, bikes, elegant slander about television customs-former and present. Gathering in their house in pure ponds, and then in Starosadsky. The husband - Alexander Yurovsky - is also a front -line soldier, also a handsome man, also an intellectual. Professor of the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University, author of the first textbook on television in Russia. Screenwriter of many fiction and documentary films, including the famous Operation “Trust”.

I was a graduate student of Alexander Yakovlevich. And she did not know that she was his wife. When I first came to the house - behind Shklovsky’s book, it seems, 1928 of the publication, - it came out to meet the magnificent, high, stately. I am stunned. Because from the age of age she remembered her face, voice, habits - a slightly tilted head of a half -turn, Galina Shergova, the leading cycle "Our biography". It was amazed that she was red-haired and green-eyed-Telik was black and white.

Since that time, it happened: at first special graduate schools, then unacceptable conversations with the Cathedral colleagues and common friends, then the circle of acquaintances gradually expanded. I was considered the nineteenth child in the family - according to the graduate students of Alexander Yakovlevich. This house brought me literally both people and on television - here I met many wonderful people, including television.

I did not want to leave the house of Shergova -Yurovsky. Here, many revered for the honor of being accepted. Zinovy ​​Gerdt and Alexander Galich, Anatoly Aleksin and Ksenia Marinina, Grigory Chuhrai and Alexander Shirvindt, Alexander Kaverznev and Vladimir Pozner, Yurovsky colleagues in the television department of Rudolf Boretsky, Alexander Sherel, George Kuznetsov. In this house, the paths of the first department of television and radio broadcasting of the journalism faculty of Moscow State University-and the most all-Union television and radio broadcasting always intersected in the country. Galya and Lesha not only raised the Shergov dynasty - Ksenia, Katya, Lelia - several generations of students and graduate students were “sprouted” nearby. They ran into their house and went. For advice and just chat. A real Moscow house with generous feasts, conversations, poems, songs of friends for a guitar. And last Tuesday, May 9, we saw each other - according to the annual tradition. It turned out - for the last time .

Everything was: both violent thickets, and the search for the harmony of words,
Digging poetic pashen and anti -tank ditches,
A fragment falling in the end,
The poem overnight, for the sitting.
Stronger than the "Faust" by Goethe,
Complicated "Operation " Trust " ."
Our ancient friendship is such a reason
Alexander and Galina ...
And Ksenia, their daughter.

This was written by the family of the family Yuri Vizbor - about Galya, Lesha and the very friendship that they endowed all of us. Forever grateful.