| Russian Presidential Prize laureates announced The list of new winners of the Presidential Prize of the Russian Federation brilliantly confirms the version of the complete identity of “state” and “independent” awards ( see notes on the tenth anniversary of the Triumph Prize - Vremya Novostey, January 29 ). Actress and director Galina Volchek, conductor Valery Gergiev, writer Mikhail Zhvanetsky, architect Alexander Kedrinsky, actress Nonna (Noyabrina) Mordyukova, film director Gleb Panfilov, pianist and conductor Mikhail Pletnev, playwright Viktor Rozov, art critic Dmitry Sarabyanov, prose writer Boris Strugatsky received the high award. Of course, these are all worthy, charismatic and respected people. (Some are deservedly beloved.) Some of the laureates are still on a creative upswing, while others are valued for their past, but unforgettable successes, which allow us to hope for their new creative achievements.
Gleb Panfilov, for example, precisely in connection with the award, in an interview with ITAR-TASS, “declassified” his plan: he intends to film Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s novel “In the First Circle,” for which he has already received the author’s blessing. It will be nice if the Presidential Prize supports a very large-scale, in all respects complex and, I think, expensive project (Panfilov plans to make both a film and a television series). And Galina Volchek not only runs the Sovremennik Theater, but also stages performances. And of course, any new role of Nonna Mordyukova will be an event.
Everything would be absolutely delightful if it weren’t for the usual “squiggle.” The vast majority of new laureates have already been welcomed and recognized more than once. Anything: prizes, orders, honorary titles, leadership positions (which in some areas of art is especially expensive, because it allows you to realize large artistic ideas). And the point is not that someone got too many carrots (counting other people’s income is stupid and shameful), but that once again strong artists remain “behind the scenes”, without whom the appearance of modern Russian culture (literature, theater, architecture, music, visual arts, humanitarian thought) looks, to put it mildly, incomplete. And to put it mildly, it is insultingly distorted.
They will say that the Presidential Prize is intended for “patriarchs”. But, firstly, no one says this directly . (What is the difference between the Presidential Prize and the Empress, probably only the Kremlin knows.) Secondly, how, in this case, should we understand the awarding of this prize, for example, to maestro Gergiev, who never tires of astonishing the world with his all-round activity? And thirdly (and this is most important), we do not have (or almost no) institutions that reward artists for today's work and thereby stimulate their work tomorrow. It seems that the “homelessness” of outstanding theater directors, which objectively pushes them out of Russia ( see “Vremya Novostey” of January 25 ), and the sad state of our cinema ( see “Vremya Novostei” of January 30 ), and many other “cultural absurdities” are to some extent related to our “premium canons”.
And we still love and congratulate the laureates - including Alexander Dolsky, who was awarded the Bulat Okudzhava Prize. Andrey NEMZER |
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