Uninteresting people

Then she found out that Ksenia Sobchak received the nobility. And the head of the FSB Nikolai Patrushev too. The noble titles were given to them by the head of the Russian Imperial House Grand Duchess Maria Vladimirovna.

Actually, this in itself is so funny that you can no longer write anything. Unless, of course, consider the noblewoman Ksenia Sobchak in isolation from other life realities. But the nobles are newly linked exclusively in the resulting coordinate system. The operation on the global substitution of everyone and everything is completed brilliantly. From this point of view, Nikolai Patrushev is certainly worthy of encouragement.

One intellectual says that he loves the president, the other who loves. Both continue to be considered intellectuals. In the store Exrasions of messenic journalists and teaching containers are stubbornly issued for literature. In the exhibition halls, hygienic gaskets laid out on the floor are held under the article "Art".

I don’t know how you are, but I was clear to me with Sofya Vlasyevna. I was guided by time and space. Life then consisted of things completely obvious. Civil society is what we do not have. Kagabashniki - ghouls. Intellectuals are academicians of Likhachev and Sakharov. Literature is that which is not in stores, but parents buy from speculators. Samizdat is another kind of literature. Scientists made discoveries, art was called art. The nobility, like an extinct estate, had the appearance of the great artist Vladimir Basov in the film "Days of the Turbins". So they lived.

Now look at how everything has changed. Either we were replaced, or we were replaced. For civil society, we are given us either by our Nazis, or the fascisting ourselves - we are still swimming in unusual concepts - plus an indispensable union of Orthodox citizens. Each local prince is now a doctor of sciences, that is, a scientist. He knows the way how good it is for him and his family, it means that he made a discovery, as I understand it. One intellectual says that he loves the president, the other who loves. Both continue to be considered intellectuals. In the store Exrasions of messenic journalists and teaching containers are stubbornly issued for literature. In the exhibition halls, hygienic gaskets laid out on the floor are held under the article "Art". Stop look, then say thoughtfully: “There is something in this,” you will take a job for the smart. Now the nobles have been replaced.

It's not even what Ksenia Sobchak is doing specifically. In the end, Countess Maria Alekseevna Belskaya-Zhukovskaya, nee Trubetskaya, worked in Paris at the Tao Fashion House. In 1926, her photograph in an evening dress was published by Vogue. Both the countess and the dress made a splash.

The matter is something else. There is such a historical bike. Officer of the Horse Guard Valerian Nikolaevich Bibikov, married to Countess Sofya Mikhailovna Tolstoy, worked as a bus driver in exile, and in the summer he drove tourists on a limousine in Europe. Once in Austria, he took a rich married couple from South America to the hotel and went to see the King of Spain Alfonso XIII who was there. His Majesty was at one time the honorary commander of the Guards Regiment, in which Bibikov served. Guests from South America also wanted to look at the king. Valerian Nikolaevich later explained the reason for the niece, why he did not take the nouveau riche to the king: "You see, but they are not one of those people who would be interested to meet."

Here I am about this: people are uninteresting.

12/06/2007 The material was published in the newspaper No. 230 dated 12/07/2007.