Miroslav Nemirov. All about poetry 34

Bar

1.

There is such a phenomenon of the life of our days; Type of extraction: street; the door, some word above it, for example "Neptune", often neon letters and a sort of calligraphic cursive; You need to go into this door, undressing in the wardrobe, if winter, go into the interior of a medium size, in the depths of the room there is a counter usually on a person’s chest, called a stand, near it stand on one leg of a round seat of height to a person of medium modern growth slightly above the ass, you can sit on them. Behind the counter there is a person called a bartender, on the shelves behind him - an abundance of all kinds of bottles with alcoholic beverages. You need to do this: give the indicated person a certain amount of money behind the counter and say, for example, Manhattan! A person will then take six bottles with different drinks from the shelf behind his back, with the help of a minzurka, it will measure from each of them a certain amount of each of the mentioned, will merge all this into an iron dish called a shaker, shakes it for a while, so that everything will be mixed better, the resulting mixture will pour into a glass, it is a manhattan, it needs to be taken and not drinking, and more Gully, and to click through a straw.

As far as the author of these lines is known, this method of cultural pastime in the North American United States was invented. Judging by those films and books, the establishments of the described type existed in the United States already in the middle of the 19th century, they were called salons. True, then they drank mainly not cocktails and not through a straw, but in one gulp, not wise, bourbon, that is, corn moonshine, and there were still played cards there. Smoke hung with a rocker. The smoke was both tobacco and powder, because each of the staying Here on the belt hung a faithful Smith-i-Vesson on the belt, and he continually launched, for example, if a fly, for example, a fly: there was an obvious sign of Providence that this neighbor was not an honest good boy, but simply secret shit. And with shit there and in those days the honest Good Boys had a short conversation.

Women were allowed into such institutions only for the purpose of debauchery for money, although they were very kind inside.

2.

Russia, the era of tsarism. The "bar" type is completely absent. Drink a riser? Yes, and mix different drinks in one bowl? Well, no, thanks! The working people drink vodru in taverns, sitting on a chair, from a glass; The nobility drinks in all kinds of restaurants, and even more at balls in private houses, champagne, a burdashk, Shabl, soren, state terrain and other products of grapes of grape juice imported from France.

I.A.Goncharov, for example, caring a trip around the crew of the Pallas frigate, in November 1853 visits, being in Shanghai, a bar at the American consulate and remains very dissatisfied with him. The first thing he did not like was such an integral component of all B. as tall spinning stools.

Having scrambled up, ”Goncharov reports,“ the antigemorroidal, “as he calls him, is the Sedelishch, he was already going to answer the question of the American consul, who was interested in, which the potter came to, but moved inadvertently with his foot: a round shed with a screw turned, and he found himself facing the wall.

“On the schooner,” he answered in the wall, at the same time, thinking about American amenities with annoyance, his feet again bringing himself to his former position.

- How long will you stay here?

“Looking for the circumstances,” he answered, holding a pillow of the chair with his hand, which was again stirring under him.

- A! - the consul answered affably, after which the visit was over.

Goncharov and about the custom of drinking brandy with Sodov, who were treated to this bar, about which the next time, are not responding about the custom.

3.

1865, Moscow: And here is something like this!

Some V. Davidov, the author of the Memoirs "Moscow of the 1860s", reports: in Moscow there were 3 most interpretant taverns-"Big Moscow" Gurina, Tester Testeva and Novo-Trinsky on Ilyinka.

"The device of everyone was the same: along a rather dirty staircase, you need to climb the second floor and there, in the first room - a counter with vodka and a rather nondescript snack, and behind the counter - a huge closet with dishes and bottles." What is it, one wonders, how not a bar? Moreover, they were, according to Davydov, and cocktails!

They were invented, according to Davydov, the boys themselves. They drank, for example, a “bear” - a mixture of vodka with a porter, that is, with a dark beer: they drank and “Turk” - to a high glass of Maraskin was poured, then egg yolk was carefully produced, and the rest was completed with cognac, and this mixture had to be drunk in a gulp.

There were other drinks - "White Elephant", "Indian Prince", "Chertik".

“However, ” Davydov complements, “ all these mixtures were used not for the taste effect, but from eccentricity or when the company reached an enthusiastic state, and by the beginning of the 20th century they were abandoned, and not without reason, since they were, in essence, tasteless.”

Again, about a room with an counter with vodks and snacks Davydov, it was reported: it was not accepted to approach him, and Vodka to the vodka with a snack - “state -owned”, as her name (a piece of boiled ham and salty cucumber) were fed to the occupied table.

So, it turns out, it was still not quite a bar.

4.

Russia, the beginning of the XX century: there are institutions of the described type.

I will better in the bar whores will be
Serve pineapple water! -

Threats V. Mayakovsky in 1915 to those who set out

on a pure poetino heart
Encourse, dirty, in galoshes and without galosh.

In the place of these dirty ones, I would conduct a procedure for a democratic singular survey of those present: are you - are you experiencing a desire to take a rush to the heart of V.V. Mayakovsky? You? You? After which he would have brought out a unanimous verdict: they do not exist, take your heart - and u **. However, this is a distraction aside. We are talking about institutions called "bar": their existence in the second half of the 1910s indicated above is documented, but I do not think that they were really widespread. In any case, scrolling now in my head, and in considerable quantities, memoirs and just the novels of those times - restaurant scenes in it (head) as much as you like, and tavern, and still bohemian -spell -like type of "flying dog" and "halt of comedians", but here is a bar?

No, it does not recall.

5.

BSE-1926, one of the favorite books of the author of these lines. The word "bar" is in it. The definition is this:

"The room where the buffet with soft or alcohol is placed; zucchini, drinking institution, differs from the usual type of restaurant or dining room with the absence of tables; the visitor, standing at a high rack, drinks and bite."

Is there any such period in the USSR, the BSE does not indicate.

6.

USSR, the era of Stalinism of the Early, 1930s.

Of course, I believe, I believe, I believe.

In the era of reconstruction and continuous industrialization? !!

When, passing through the tentacles of world capital, --- ---

ninth hour --- ---

Baal --- ---

Capital --- ---

Of course, here is not up to the establishment of the type "bar".

Although...

Additionally dial.

7.

Moreover, they, I believe, are not and cannot be in the time of Stalinism of late, in the post -war fortieth. In the era of the fight against cosmopolitanism? !! When the entire Soviet people are breasts, like one, --- --- the arsonists of the war --- --- --- two-halves and renegades ----and again-well, and everything. Which, in order to write, the stylization talents (as well as super -liability) of V. Sorokin must be possessed, and I have - - - - -.

But there are definitely institutions called glass.

I personally drank a glass of vodka in them, because in Tyumen they reached the mid-1980s.

And I inform you of those interested: I was, friends, in these establishments it is simply - beauty.

They were clean.

They were light.

There was no bastard music in them, there were no guys with monstrous biceps and with their similar ones (or maybe it is better to use the word "adequate"?) Friends of the type depicted on the following Ill.; There were no bustle, crowds and a bark twilight in them, and there were such small rooms, in the middle of which there were five one -legged round tables with a marble lid; Behind the counter stood not a bartender, but a barman who did not mix anything with a brazen face, but conscientiously poured 100 grams of vodka or 200 into a faceted glass of people. And the people who took these 100 grams, they went to these tables with them, and stood one at one or two, and were serious and silent, and they were in a coat, from which the newspaper was sticking out, and they overturned these 100. And there was a window in the wall, a white tulle hung on it, and there was frost outside the window, but it was sunny and warm - eh!

So it was in a glass on the street, which near the Tourist Hotel perpendicular to the Republic Street (and not Tula) in the winter of 1984, and I participated in this, and more than once.

8.

1950s: in the city of Moscow, on Gorky Street, in the house in which a gastrone, known to the people called "gut", is now an institution called "cocktail-Hall".

In the carrier of Stalinism!

In the midst of struggle against stuntedness before abroad!

In the heart of the capital of this struggle, three steps from the Kremlin - neon letters with American words glow, each of which is drawn for 10 years without the right to correspondence!

How and why it suddenly turned out to be possible - there is one of the countless secrets of the history of the USSR, who are sitting on the other and drive the third.

As for the fact that I should write that these letters burned in the night of Stalinism, as if "a mines of the peparsin" - what, this is true. That is how they burned.

From the bump of vision - I heard that in America the "satellite" was already invented!
- Well, we are behind again! .. "Crocodile" dated December 10, 1957 (# 34)

9.

And so they burned, figuratively express themselves, more and more flaring up, all of the 1960s and 1970s, and by the end of the 1970s already these, depicted above, were completely defeated, and what happened to the CPSU, the USSR, the RSFSR, the NRB, the SCRE and other phenomena of being in the late 1980s in the late 1980s in the late 1980s - The beginning of the 1990s, - this was already one consequence.

An example is the author of these lines. At the described end, in the year 1978, he lives in the city of Nadym, on one of the most extreme Severov of the Tyumen region, being a student of 10 "B" class of local secondary school number 2.

It was in the 1978 described city in the described city of Nadym at the “65 Parallel” restaurant that an institution of the described type “Bar” opens - and this very author of these same lines, the Ezheverekhne begins to stay in it and click of cocktails.

He does it with disgust.

It is much more interesting for him to sit at home and read books.

Or - drink vodka, but again at home, with friends and girlfriends.

For a bar in his Soviet sense - in fact, this is an institution of rare senselessness: not to talk with friends and friends, for the music rattles with terrible force; Do not see people and not show themselves, for it is dark at least giggled; All that remains is to sit at the counter, shaking his eyes into the darkness, and silently click an excessively expensive drink.

Nevertheless, the author is a nightly doing this.

And not only is engaged in, but even with all his might pretending that he is extremely pleasant and exciting to him such a pastime. For this is the structure of the then life: either you are shameful, or, in today's language, Botan - and then you can sit at home and read books, but - - or you are a guy at least where, but then you need to hang around in the bar, and very enthusiastically, and also speculate “Zhevanina”, “layers”, “ginas” and all the other “firm”.

The author did not want to belong to the called chm, so I had to do all of the above. Such was the structure of the then moment of life, why, by the way, the subtitle is not, for example, "about the places of entertainment", but - well, the one as it is. Precisely because the dull and humiliating daily stay in the institution of this type was a gloomy non -imperial work, performed for the sake of

The picture that could be subjected to the title of this point of this message is the famous pop artist Yuri Loza. Just about such a state of affairs and things in 1983, he was composed - and was extremely popular - a song in which he all mercilessly scourged the merciless scurry of satires.

The girl is in the bar today! -

Yuri Loza sang by a person with a penetrating voice from the machine, with corpus callosum hands mercilessly and selflessly burning on the rise of the Non -Chernozems for the ideals of the further rise of spiritual morality and patriotism, - -

She does not want to work in production,
And he wants to be a depraved and unearned element!

The song, by the way, for some reason was considered anti-Soviet and was strictly prohibited.

However, she no longer had a relationship to the author: in August 1980, he enters the University of Tyumen, where he is given the methods of demonstrating to others that are more characteristic of his mind and inclinations. From visiting bars and restaurants, from speculation with jeans and other similar activities, he gets the opportunity to relieve him to refuse.

And more since then what is being done there, in the described institutions, what is it, - - - -.