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The 115th anniversary of our magazine is celebrated in Feodosia

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Lev Konstantinovich inherited the "Ogonyok" collection

Photo: Kommersant / Viktor Korotaev / buy photo

Tourists cannot pass by Petrov - he has all the arguments in his hands

Photo: Kommersant / Viktor Korotaev / buy photo

Natalia Radulova, Feodosia

- Girls, just a minute! Beauties! Do you know when the last time the Genoese fortress was restored? - Pensioner Lev Petrov, without hesitation, calls out to visitors to the historical and architectural reserve of Feodosia. - In 1914! To make it easier for you to feel that time, I will show you the Ogonyok magazine from the same year. Touch history. No, no need to scroll, be careful. But you can purchase from me copies of Ogonyok pages related to our region, and I can also take you on a creative walk.

Lev Konstantinovich, although he calls himself a tour guide, works part-time illegally; any resident of Crimea, in principle, is ready to take a creative walk for a fee and show tourists local attractions. But 71-year-old Lev Konstantinovich has an advantage - a collection of old issues of Ogonyok: he inherited some from a relative-collector, and collected some himself. Without thinking too much about legal subtleties, he uses our archive. “Your magazine helps me a lot in my work. Just write it down: Ogonyok makes an impression on everyone. I showed you an edition from the beginning of the last century - and that’s it, after that the person doesn’t have any questions, his jaw drops, he’s ready to listen to you, he trusts you.” your knowledge. Look, the cover of “The Stay of Their Imperial Majesty and the Royal Family in the Crimea,” I printed postcards from it. You published Green’s story, and he lived with us, wrote, and here are his museum and reproductions of paintings by Aivazovsky. his students? And the bombing of the city and port of Feodosia by the Turkish cruiser "Gamidiye" exactly 100 years ago? No matter what, you wrote about everything, photographed everything. So I not only catch clients on Ogonyok, but also use your illustrations. I take your information, make small collages, calendars, postcards in a whole set at once, I offer, “Crimean souvenir”, 100 rubles each.”

Lev Petrov’s personal life is also connected with the magazine, which “has always been the brightest in the Soyuzpechat kiosks.” The first shock was the death of Stalin: “I remember this Ognykov photograph, where Beria and Khrushchev stood next to the coffin. And my grandmother said, looking at the photo over my shoulder: “The Tsar has died”... By the way, you know what Beria has in common with Ogonyok? Born in the same year."

He remembers portraits of Gagarin in the magazine, remembers the scarlet letters “Hello, Moon” on the cover in 1966 - that year he, a young shipbuilding engineer from Nizhny Novgorod, arrived on assignment in Feodosia. A beautiful girl, hockey players, Karl Marx - all this was on the front pages in 1968, when he bought a Java motorcycle and took his student wife to exams: “We lived so well, my salary is 130 rubles, a motorcycle is a breeze in hair, I’m doing important work, building ships for the country, playing chess and playing the mandolin.”

In 1975, Petrov inherited a file of the old Ogonyok. “I didn’t immediately understand what a valuable acquisition this was, but just in case, I started adding more and more new issues there. So I quickly got involved and became a collector myself. Now I’m your big fan. Here, in Feodosia, in the Central City Library, I even suggested that you note this This year is the 115th birthday of Ogonyok: readers and local historians will come, I will speak, I will provide magazines for detailed viewing - all with the aim of popularizing Russian printed publications among the population of the Republic of Crimea. I wrote an ode in honor of the birthday: “The magazine is older than Russia. No!""

The ode ends with the statement “They will read a magazine with such a name all the time!”, maybe that’s why Lev Konstantinovich’s collection is growing. Although his wife categorically forbade him to expand: “There’s nowhere!” Now the collector is looking for a new place to store his exhibits: “You go out and go out, and in 115 years I haven’t collected all the numbers yet.”

Lev Konstantinovich does not want to part with his treasures for any money. “I’m a Muscovite, I gave him a tour of the old city, offered him 5 thousand for the pre-revolutionary Ogonyok. Five thousand rubles! But I didn’t give in!” Only once did the collector make sacrifices: “I decided to exchange the magazine of 1915, where Yesenin’s poem “Through the Village on a Crooked Path...” was first published for the book “Memories of Sergei Yesenin”; it had just been published in a small edition by the publishing house.” Moscow worker." Where in Feodosia in 1978 could I get such a book? But here's what I came up with. I wrote to the director of the museum in Konstantinovo: “Let's make an honest exchange,” and he agreed. But when I arrived in Konstantinovo a year later, the director told me I personally conducted the tour, spent two hours! It was my triumph. All the visitors were shocked, they thought I was some kind of important guest! And all thanks to Ogonyok!”

Thanks to Ogonyok, Lev Konstantinovich still has clients today. "Caught the Germans!" — he says in a joyful whisper. The Germans, Nadezhda Schneider and the Crimean Tatar Zulfie Zenay, really came from Germany to “look at the homeland of their ancestors.” And they are ready to buy any souvenirs here: “Crimea is Ours” magnets, a set of postcards with reproductions of “Ogonyok”, to which “tour guide, bibliophile, local historian L.K. Petrov” added his poems “I’ll note - not for a benefit performance, Any woman is in always an actress in the soul!”, copies of yellowed Ognykov’s pages “Pushkin’s Grandson against Russia” with information from 1914 that the descendant of our great poet serves as a captain in the German army. Nadezhda and Zulfiya are fascinated by everything: the sea, the fortress, the wind, the local historian, and Lev Konstantinovich receives 200 rubles from them. He is also happy: “That’s how I earned two hundred for talking with beautiful women, understand? Did you see how many tourists were standing there, above? Eh, if it hadn’t gotten dark so quickly, I would have killed them all.”

He collects his exhibits: “Don’t touch! I do it myself,” he puts them in special folders, continuing to share his business plans with us: “No one knows how to provide the city with tourists in winter. But Lev knows!”

So, if you happen to be in Feodosia in November, you will find it on the shore of the bay in the southern part of the city, where there are medieval fortifications. He walks downstairs, does not climb the ramparts - his heart. Dressed in a dark jacket. In his hands is the magazine "Ogonyok".

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