Successful Solzhenitsyn

“Hallowe, Boyz End Gerls, AM Em Solzhenitsyn” is the spring of the ninety-fourth, some kind of cavity with a patch beard and dance on TV in Frenche, depicting Solzhenitsyn, who returned to Russia, the hall laughs happily, the joke is clear to everyone. Russian newspapers reprint the caricature from Financial Times , illustrating the editorial article “Slavic Khomeini in an unpredictable country”, the bearded Solzhenitsyn in Muslim robes is drawn, crazy along the street among the poor and soldiers in earflaps, the Moscow White House is burning out at the end of the street. He was expected in advance just such - a foreigner divorced from Russian reality, depicting Russian, but not like Russians. Each of his gestures and his every word by that time had already been described in the famous book of Voinovich, according to which the scenario of his return was written - through Alaska to Vladivostok and further along Russia by train with mandatory almost election meetings at each station, detailed television reports about these meetings, and then, when he had already reached Moscow, the daily passages were in a national experience. “Yellow children are born in Altai. No one knows what kind of illness it is, but they are yellow, ”he shared his impressions of the trip in the program“ View ”, and the host Alexander Lyubimov pretended to be interesting:“ Yellow? What are you saying! " In the fall, he will perform in the State Duma - the first, Rybkinskaya. He will say that “the mass of the mass is discouraged”, he will call for the revival of zemstvos and the “savings of the people”. The hall will laugh in response.

Today, the “Savings of the people” is the favorite slogan of President Putin, with whom Solzhenitsyn in the last years of his life is believed to have a good relationship, specially for schoolchildren published a shortened “Gulag Archipelago”, the university in Rostov and Street on Taganka was called, the widow Natalya Dmitrievna meets in the Putin literary assembly next to the descendants of Dostoevsky and the descendants of Dostoevsky Tolstoy, and on the anniversary days on TV, again show the series “The First Circle”, in which Gleb Stolozhin is played by Evgeny Mironov, in several episodes voiced by Solzhenitsyn himself. Among the latest Solzhenitsyn publications was the “Russian newspaper” of the brochure about the February Revolution in 2007, I went to the presentation, instead of the author, Vladislav Surkov came, who explained that Alexander Isaevich had in mind that the Democrats should not be blocked with the National Bolsheviks (then the Coalition “Another Russia”, where there were Limonov and Kasparov and with which he were according to his posts Surkov fought). A boring official recognition, as Gorky under the Soviet regime, but if there was no this confession, there would have been nothing at all, except for the word “incompleteness”, beloved by the Kremlin bloggers, who are inconsistent (from “living without lies”) call real or imaginary, no matter, hypocrisy of the liberal intelligentsia. And all.

In the system of relations of the post -Soviet intelligentsia with the surrounding reality, Solzhenitsyn turned out to be objectively superfluous, and his posthumous fate can be considered more tragic than the usual and well -known biographical episodes, including the camp, exile and exile. He could be the main national classic in the country, which survived the desections and construction of a new state that reflected his entire history, mourning the killed and singing heroes, and this did not happen, and as a result there is a classic, but there is no country for him. If you remove Solzhenitsyn from the post -Soviet history of Russia, it will not change in any way. Putin would cost quotes from the philosopher Ilyin, the series with Evgeny Mironov would be shot according to some other book, the Surkov, scaring the audience with National Boodles, would have referred to someone else. Well, yes, and the words “incompleteness” would not have been, but the loss is small.

The fate of Solzhenitsyn - this author of quotes for Putin and books for the school curriculum, which loses at the competition of reader sympathy even Lilianna Lungina - can be considered the most visual and most understandable illustration that nothing good will happen in Russia and that even a saying about “you need to live long” does not save. But there is also the fate of the magnificent prose writer, the largest anti -Soviet hero and even (this must be put in the same row) person returning home on the Trans -Siberian Railway and observing “Russia in the collapse”. If Russia still wants to break out of the post-sautry, she will need this Solzhenitsyn as a national classic and as a national hero. He talked about the savings of the people, but there is no one to save for a long time, it is necessary to create from scratch, and Solzhenitsyn himself needs to be saved - we ourselves can’t imagine to what extent we still need it.