The expulsion of demons with a milek

40 minutes before the meeting with director Nikita Mikhalkov at the entrance to Polytech stood a crowd, reminiscent of the line at the Pushkin Museum on the last day of the Picasso exhibition. Fortunately, people moved much faster, although there were so many metallic players and guards for the last time I saw at the entrance to the Domodedovo Airport. "They will not let you with food!" -said the guard to some girl absorbing nuts from a small bag. The Book of Interviewing Mikhalkov for 40 years (700 rubles, the Siberian Barber Publishing House, who broke out in the lobby, was expected. Usually the half -empty hall was full. A tanned young man in a fashionable vest, with a red tie and in pure, despite the bad weather, sat next to me, light brown boots. In front of him lay the newly purchased book by Mikhalkov. When I asked why he came to Mikhalkov, the young man with a struggle answered: “Oh, I really love the movie.” Then he suddenly turned to a friend sitting on a row higher, and said: “Yes, yes, we are now in the bathhouse with the guys once a week we definitely go to Seleznevsky. He, seeing the book on the table, laughed: “Here is the Talmud. 700 is worth?! Will you read it?! " A bearded Trinity sat just above him: the owner of Polit.ru Dmitry Itskovich, deputy. editor -in -chief of the portal Boris Dolgin and development director Oleg Popov. Finally, a hero of the evening in a woolen three appeared on the stage under stormy applause. The eyes of my neighbor sparkled especially, and he applied with admiration not with his palms, but only with his fingers-as they applaud the ballerina-prime in the Bolshoi Theater. The presenter Tatyana Malkina appeared immediately. She sighed deeper and clarified Mikhalkov why he was guarded by such an army of bodyguards. Mikhalkov replied that the retinue is not his, but guard the Polytechnic Museum. “I don’t have guards at all,” he emphasized. But Malkina insisted: "There is no answer!" Mikhalkov shook his hands: "No, she is amazing!" At this moment, a tall man in a bright sweater and jeans, like an echo, repeated with the same Mikhalkovskaya intonation: “Awesome!” - And he applauded loudly. The painful feeling came that today the audience is unlikely to achieve something new from the owner of a cap and flashing light on a car. Nevertheless, Malkina began to read notes from the audience with questions: about the blow by a boot on the physiognomia of the NBP activist, performed by Mikhalkov 11 years ago, the story with the Museum of Cinema, the attitude to Medvedev and Putin and Khodorkovsky. Mikhalkov tried to get away from answers, citing the fact that he was not a politician. About the cinema museum said that if there was money, he would not have opposed the existence of the museum. As for Khodorkovsky, he answered standardly: if the businessman is to blame and the documents prove it, "must sit in prison." Malkina did not calm down: "But society is split!" “It will always find it for us for what reason to split,” Mikhalkov retorted. At some point, the viewer sent a note with the question of when the director was the last time at the Council at the Ministry of Defense. The question was sketched on a piece of notebook with the United Russia logo. “Recently,” Mikhalkov said. He was annoyed, but answered all questions-still evasively. More than once he had to shout at an uncomfortable question - "Brilliant!" It was evident that Mikhalkov was preparing in advance for a meeting with the public. He proudly, even repeatedly repeated that he had stopped being a loser and now he was an advanced user. Separately, he boasted of his online telekanal "Besogon" , where he would expose anti-Russian forces to exorcism. He spent a small session of such exorcism directly at the audience. Malkina asked him about the turn in his work after the painting “Black Eyes”: “For me what was before this film was the Golden Fund. And after ... you became a figure of hatred! " Mikhalkov Morky looked at her and asked: "Girl, what happened to you when you were 25?" The hall exploded with laughter and applauded. Malkina swallowed humor. Spectators asked Mikhalkov about the construction of the Hotel of the company " Three TE " in Kozikhinsky. At that moment, Mikhalkov looked like Prime Minister Putin (in greater respect for him than for Medvedev, he also admitted). “We suffered all the construction sites, listened to how they ...-Then the director portrayed a shaking builder, destroying the asphalt with a junk hammer-... but when they waited for their turn to build, they stuck to me, although they had not touched anyone before.” Malkina could not resist and asked about the flashing light . Mikhalkov quietly repeated the memorized phrases about how he was busy, fulfilling an important mission. Then one of the spectators, sitting next to the bearded trinity, could not stand it and shouted to the whole hall: “What is the mission?! What?! " Boris Dolgin tried to pacify his neighbor, whispering twice: “TSSS!”, - but he did not stand up. Mikhalkov explained, already looking directly into the eyes of the scream that he was very busy, traveling to a collegium to the Ministry of Defense, for example. And also added that in fact, no one is interested in anyone: “This is connected only with my name!” He shook his head as if asking him to be understood and finally untied him. As for the activist of the NBP, Mikhalkov admitted in dismay that it was an outbreak of anger, which he regretted. But most importantly, now, in public, he still recognizes his mistake and regrets this act. Mikhalkov answered questions for more than two hours, and in public closer to the end it was visible: she was tired. Only his real admirers are not tired - elderly ladies in hats and pensioners (there were not too many of them, but they came in advance and occupied the first five rows). It was they who sat until the end of the meeting, and young people without hesitation began to leave the hall. The doors from time to time opened with a creak and closed, and the rows were empty. The promised excerpt from the new picture of the director was not shown to the audience at the end: either Mikhalkov himself changed his mind, or Malkina persuaded everyone to go to the cinema. When Mikhalkov said goodbye to the public and began to leave, the man who, along with Mikhalkov, shouted “amazing!”, Runned on stage and disappeared with the director for curtains with other personalities from the support group. Having left Polytechnic, Mikhalkov sat in Range Rover with a migma driving demons (the guard left earlier). Needless to say, no meeting of the Public Council under the Ministry of Defense was expected that evening.