Dmitry KRYMOV: “We need to thank and apologize quickly”

Heading: "I answer!"

Here is a questionnaire that we asked friends of the editorial office, prominent politicians, and cultural figures to fill out 10 years ago. In the year of its 20th anniversary, Novaya chose a number of, in our opinion, outstanding contemporaries to repeat this poll. The artist and director Dmitry KRYMOV is the first to fill out the Novaya questionnaire

Here is a questionnaire that we asked friends of the editorial office, prominent politicians, and cultural figures to fill out 10 years ago. In the year of its 20th anniversary, Novaya chose a number of, in our opinion, outstanding contemporaries to repeat this poll. It is compiled in such a way that the addressee could answer most of the questions only personally, without the help of referents.

Dmitry KRYMOV, artist, set designer, director, GITIS teacher, head of the creative laboratory at the School of Dramatic Art theater, is the first to fill out the Novaya Gazeta questionnaire.

1. What can push you away from a person when you first meet?

- Face.

2. What is useless to ask you?

- Play the violin.

3. What imperfect action do you regret?

- It's a secret.

4. What book would you not let your children read?

— There is none.

5. What is more difficult for you: to listen to words of gratitude or apology?

Both must be done quickly. If it's long, then it's equally painful.

6. What could you DIY for sale?

- I would carve something out of wood, probably I could draw ...

7. What property of youth do you dream of returning to yourself?

- Lack of pessimism from 6 to 9 in the morning.

8. Is there an amount of cash with you that you feel uncomfortable without?

- Thousand rubles.

9. What do you miss time for every day?

— Tell my wife that I love her and wash the car.

10. The element of comfort that is the most difficult to do without?

- Air conditioner.

11. Are there realities of the Soviet era that you miss?

- I can't remember...

13. How many vacation days can you afford at one time?

- Days 20-25.

14. If you had the opportunity to call into the past, who and why would you call?

- Mom. Just talk.

15. What kind of charity would you like to donate money to?

- On the development of children in the field of artistic creativity.

16. What annoys you the most in people?

— Cruelty.

17. Which of the mortal sins (pride, envy, greed, gluttony, lust, despondency, anger) seems to you not so mortal?

— Perhaps, everything, except for envy and greed.

19. The ideal of a woman?

- Oh!

20. The ideal of a man?

- Charlie Chaplin.

21. The strongest childhood impression?

— The general atmosphere of the naturalness of life.

22. Word or expression from which warps?

- Some say not "fits", but "fits".

23. What is your favorite family legend?

- As my dad asked my mom on the first evening we met: “Are we getting married now or will we wait until you graduate from college?”

24. What are you willing to overpay for without regret?

- For Georgian churchkhela.

25. Name the problems that need to be solved in Russia immediately.

— Medicine and education.

26. The most distant (in time) relative, whose name and patronymic do you know?

- Great-grandfather Akim Petrovich Fursov - a shoemaker from the city of Yalta.

27. What are you more afraid of than death?

- The fact that THERE may not be anything.