Viktor Shenderovich: "Tabakov was huge and real"

"A person can be measured in different ways, according to different axes. But there is also such a thing: volume. Oleg Tabakov was large. Volumetric, complex, different. He was sincere and crafty, ambiguous - and very clear, lying Vanka and openly dramatic. He was an experienced courtier and, friendly with the soulful rulers of the country, decades, decades, and had a long time ago. The country is oxygen of freedom, ”writes a publicist and satirist on Facebook .

"In 2014, he tried to slip out of the signature" Crimean "list-like life back, in 1968, the favorite of the free Prague, tried to slip out of the party hugs of the previous" relatives "of the invaders. In either case, he did not succeed, but in either case he did not seek anything for himself. life.

Is this position vulnerable? Yes, very much. Did Tabakov understand her vulnerability? Undoubtedly. Did you suffer from this? Yes. Did he say to him the words that he then spared? Did he break, was it old, was it hard? Yes, sure.

But he was huge. Huge and real. Almost unprecedentedly successful. Deservedly beloved. Very strong, - and this power was manifested, among other things, in a cheerful contempt for those who blasphemed him, joyfully compensating for the difference in volumes.

The blasphemy could be a thousand times right in private assessments, but a happy excitement betrayed them. The volume of the soul of these righteouss was obviously incomparable with the soul of this sinner.

Their righteous tanks over an unheated body are exhausting camming out. ”