Selected places from the correspondence of the Ministry of Culture

Tomorrow in the northern capital, the VI St. Petersburg International Cultural Forum will open. In October, the Telegram channel of the editor -in -chief of Echo of Moscow, Alexei Venediktov, published photographs of an official note with a listing of unwanted participants in the forum, written by the First Deputy Minister of Culture Vladimir Aristarkhov in the name of state secretary Alexander Zhuravsky. The authenticity of the document, in which, among others, were the names of Alexander Sokurov, Grigory Chkhartishvili, Danny Boyle and Christoph Martaler, denied the Ministry of Culture, and most of the persons mentioned in it will eventually take part in the work of the ICD.

At the disposal of Colta.ru was another document designed for internal use signed by Vladimir Aristarkhov - judging by the content, excerpts from an extended and supplemented version of the previously published official note. The fragment obtained by the editorial office includes the “black list” of the International Cultural Forum - 2017 according to the "Theater" section, as well as a brief description of its defendants, equipped with links in the video and quotes from the press. According to our information, this is only a small part of a large -scale dossier collected for each of the MKF sections - it is quite obvious, however, that the work on it does not come down to utilitarian tasks to prepare and conduct a specific Ministry of Culture: a list of “enemies of Russian culture” in the department began to prepare for a long time, plannedly replenishing and updating it.

Many images indicate the initial mood of the authors to create a product of radical art, breaking a positive construct of a classic work.

This material is not even so much with the sensational composition of the “black list”-among others, the artistic director MDT Lev Dodin , the founder of the dramatic art school, Anatoly Vasiliev , the BDT Andrey Mogeliy , the artistic and the Gogol Center, Kirill Serebrennikov and the director Dmitry Krymov , are included in it. The Ministry of Culture also perceives how the activities of the key figures of the modern Russian theater interprets. The language and style of the official note, looking like an exemplary example of “art history in civilian clothes”, turn it into an impressive document of the era.

Today we publish the whole document in the form in which it entered the editor, and also give the decoding of its most indicative fragments. The text is printed in the source.

Document A: Aristarkhov - Zhuravsky

State secretary,
Deputy Minister of Culture
Russian Federation
A.V. Zhuravsky

Dear colleagues!

In connection with the presented lists, in addition to official notes No. 540-01.01-69 of dated 03/31/2017 and No. 676-01.01-69-Va of 05.04.2017 I am sending a list of persons whose invitation to the VI St. Petersburg International Cultural Forum of 2017 is inappropriate (Appendix No. 1).

A detailed certificate of these persons - see Appendix No. 2.

Sincerely,
First Deputy Minister
V.V. Aristarchus

Document B: "List of Persons"

Appendix No. 1

The list of persons whose invitation to the VI St. Petersburg International Cultural Forum of 2017 is inappropriate

1. Krymov D.A.
2. Serebrennikov K.S.
3. Vasiliev A.A.
4. Dolzhansky R.P.

(written by hand) Dodin
(written by hand) Mighty

Document C: “Certificate of these persons” (fragments)

Appendix No. 2

Section "Theater"

1. Krymov Dmitry Anatolyevich (No. 72 in the table in the file)

The production of D. Krymov "in his own words. A. Pushkin, “Eugene Onegin”. ” Laboratory of Dmitry Krymov Theater "School of Dramatic Art", Moscow

The performance is a claim to a new interpretation of Pushkin’s novel with elements of literary and psychological immersion in the work. However, many images (Pushkin’s clown, moving on the conveyor of the Tatyana doll, the corpse of Lensky, the grave of Tatyana’s parents, Olga's doll; then will appear: Cheburashka - Onegin (also on the conveyor), a doll of a long -legged ballerina, the corpse of the uncle on the table) talk about the original mood of the radical art product, which breaks the positive design of the classical works. The authors use anti -aesthetic forms, most likely intentionally creating a depressive perception. It is surprising that the performance does not have an age limit index and is intended for the children's festival.

The production of D. Krymov "in his own words. N. Gogol, “Dead Souls” (history of the gift) ”. Theater "School of Dramatic Art", Moscow

The performance in a sarcastic and mocking manner uses the images of Pushkin and Gogol.

2. Serebrennikov Kirill Semenovich (No. 73 in the table in the file)

R. 07/07/1969. Russian theater director, artistic director of Gogol Center.

The activities of Serebrennikov as a director and cultural manager contribute to the erosion of traditional Russian spiritual and moral values ​​and weakening the unity of the multinational people of the Russian Federation (including the spread of low-quality products of mass culture); There are attempts to falsify Russian history.

3. Vasiliev Anatoly Aleksandrovich (No. 75 in the table in the file)

R. 1942

Russian theater director, creator and head of the School of Dramatic Art (since 1987). In April 2006, Vasiliev was dismissed from the post of art director of the theater by order of the Moscow Culture Committee due to the poor implementation of the mayor’s orders. In September 2006, the director took a creative vacation and went to France, and in July 2007 filed an application for the termination of cooperation with the dramatic art school. Currently lives and works in France.

A significant part of the director’s creative activity is the avant -garde experiments and radical interpretations of literary works aimed at deconstructing the traditions of Russian theatrical art and traditional Russian values. Included to forms of art, forming a depressive model of worldview.

Video: Setting A. Vasiliev “Six characters in search of the author” (ShDI, 2001)

At 6:19 min. vulgar body movements of actors depicting homosexual relations; With 1.35 min. Sexual intercourse draw ...

"Medea-material" (H. Müller)

The woman shouts some obscure sounds, then begins to undress, undresses and continues to shout ...

4. Dodin Lev Abramovich (No. 76 in the table in the file)

(Born May 14, 1944, Russian theater director.

In creativity, he is prone to erosion of traditional Russian spiritual and moral values, attempts to falsify Russian history. Apparently, it shares an “opposition” political worldview.