It's a pity, but we were late ...

In Tomsk, the founder of the 2+KU theater Vladimir Zakharov died

There was a magic wooden box in Tomsk. There lived dolls. The hare could play Hamlet, and the hedgehog to philosophize. There is no more magic box. Burned. On February 1, in the extension of the "2+KU", the wiring was closed. The founder of the theater, master of the workshop, director, artist, storyteller Vladimir Zakharov rushed to extinguish. He died in the 64th year of life.

Vladimir Zakharov - physicist by education. In the 1980s-President of the Pierrot KSP club, known to many in the Siberian University City. In the late 1980s, Zakharov worked with the legendary for colleagues in Russia and Europe, Kukolnik Roman Winderman in his Skomorokh Theater (Tomsk), where Platonov’s “Mermaid” and Pokilvan were stunned equally.

Winderman (he himself lived in the world is only 55 years old) and blessed Vladimir Zakharov to make his theater. With dolls of special mechanics and driving technique invented by Zakharov. They were attached to the wrist, were very plastic, and it seemed to the audience: a lot of human in them.

The small buildings stood the lines of the audience, the money for the ticket was thrown into the canvas bag: whoever paid so much. Everything there was wooden: theater, workshop, dolls.

“Everything else - cybernetics, robotics, bard songs, wood carving, poetry - were a prelude to what happened now. ... This is the paradox: in magic, when a completely living creature breaks away from you, to which I still stretch and stretch, ” said the director and storyteller to the reporters of the portal vtomske.ru.

In Tomsk, the theater in South Lane, 29, became a landmark, the “business card” of the city. And the gray -bearing and gray -bearded Zakharov in a black turtleneck (as it should be driven by dolls!), In a lively and equal conversation with a fairytale creature that had been revived on his wrist was known and loved.

A soft intelligent plate with the inscription “It's a pity, but you are late” (it was posted on the doors of the “2+KU” theater, when the performance was already going on) now also seems to be a necrologist.

The New Gazeta brings condolences to the relatives and friends of Vladimir Zakharov. And Tomsk.