The center of tolerance - went out!

In St. Petersburg - the event is not ordinary, but iconic. In the sense, for today it is iconic, and at once several points.

Here they close, more precisely, simply thrown to the street, to nowhere center of tolerance, it is also an information and cultural Korchakovsky center. Perhaps in the press flickering is not so often, but the matter does his work honestly and with dignity. He raised, enlightened, taught, and mainly young people - schoolchildren and students. And we admit honestly-do we really need it today? Not specifically to you who read these lines, but on a country scale? The idle question. The answer to him is clear like a sunny noon. And we will not bother with the search for reasons. They are also absolutely transparent.

So - about the very center and what he painstakingly, intelligently did since 2003, the moment of his formation. The idea of ​​its creation by a happy way was born to the employees of the Central Library. K. G. Paustovsky - the oldest in the Moscow district. He worked, of course, on the enthusiasm of employees.

Even a fleeting look at his activity over the past 13 years makes it clear that the people who created him and worked in him invested all their generous and fertile souls into him. "Great humanists of the world"; "Learning tolerance"; “On the way to the temple. Life and fate about. Alexandra me "; “Hurry to do good: Dr. Gaaz”; "New Year's traditions of different countries"; “Dmitry Sergeyevich Likhachev: lessons of patriotism and citizenship”; "Tales and fairy tales of different countries"; “The heart given to children: Janusz Korczak”; “Petersburg: Culture Necklace”; "Great religions of the world"; “Mother Maria:“ I will die again, and I will resurrect again ”; “Living - remember!”; “The country of foggy Albion is England”; "Culture and traditions of the peoples of the world"; "We and others"; “Culinary journey through the countries of the world”; “Around the world without a ticket”; “Live in peace with yourself and others: multinational Petersburg”; “We were born on the banks of the Neva”; “Conscience, nobility and dignity: Bulat Okudzhava”; “I am not from childhood, from the war: the blockade of Leningrad and the children” ...

Lectures, seminars, conferences, video shows, exhibitions, round tables.

Library workers, writers, scientists, educators, parents, teachers came here, and from different cities and countries. Schoolchildren, students, people of various ages and social status came.

In general, there was a lot of things.

So much, so rich and generously, warmly and comfortable that it was decisively impossible to endure this further!

That's why the changes, related by the fact that they comprehended art history institutes, the Academy of Russian ballet, the St. Petersburg Conservatory ... That is, they changed the leadership. Since 2009, its new director has become Natalia Vladimirovna Kolyasova . At first, she did not do sharp gestures against the center. Say, work, work, gentlemen enthusiasts, we have not yet touched you. You can even say - we are tolerate.

And since 2014 ...

In September, the director of the director was ordered to free the premises occupied by the center within a week. The base is the repair of the premises, so it is necessary!

And the urgent evacuation of the center began, neither give nor take how in wartime. The employees took away, saving seven rare sculptures dedicated to Janusz Korchak's work of Lev Razumovsky. The richest fund of the Center was placed in 156 boxes: books, thematic digestes, children's drawings and objects of decorative and applied creativity, photo exhibitions, essays and essays, letters and materials from personal archives ...

To the question "where?" The response of the deputy director followed: "I do not know." And only when the employees threatened the appeal to Russian and foreign media, they allocated part of the premises in another library. But as soon as they put a more or less tolerable order there, like December 10, 2015 Another pogrom order followed: to free him. Within a few days. Now without providing another site.

For it was transmitted: orders of the director are not discussed! Say, there is no center in the structure of the library of such a unit, and all its work is pure amateur performances. And amateur performances, as you know, are not welcome. All know your pole and for it-no, no.

And leave with you all your funny and helpless arguments about the need for this work in a situation of today, with its growing aggressiveness and xenophobia. Leave all sorts of moaning and groans in general, as well as links to the fact that the center was engaged in a noble business and seemingly not yet prohibited, like a dialogue of cultures and propaganda of the ideas of humanism, and with it the confrontation between intolerance, xenophobia and extremism. Today is not to the lyrics. Today, the time is tough, and it, accordingly, it requires toothy, grip and especially with the humanistic values ​​of non -ceremony.

And what is there really? What to resolve with the stories of our youth about Korchak, Holocaust, Mother Mary, Hans-Christian Andersen and all other okujavas, with his “take hands, friends”? Subscribing - you look, and we will gradually stop the hate, and find the enemy everywhere, and look at the world through the sight.

This is already completely impossible to endure.

And the center, known and recognized not only in St. Petersburg and Russia, but also abroad , is destroyed and thrown out today, like old galoshes. With all his many years of work, enthusiasm of employees, plans, prospects, with all his humanism and other intelligent nonsense. We do not need it. Healthy, strong hatred - yes!

And when she finally triumphs on the scale of the whole country - so in her already those who nurtured her and pestrated, I suppose will not be. They will be in other countries, where not only their multimillion -dollar real estate is located, but also mutual understanding, tolerance and kindness successfully expelled from our Fatherland.

And we will live here. According to the laws of the wolf, there are so that today we are so carefully cultivated and praised. Not realizing that we dig our own grave.


Photos are provided by the author.