It’s good that there is no Russia. Poetry as politics

Alexander Petrikov specifically for "Kashin"

“They say that the drowning one in the last minute forgets fear, ceases to choke. Suddenly it becomes easy, free, blissful. And, losing consciousness, he goes to the bottom, smiling. " Manipulation, of course - even if people really go to the bottom, smiling, a calm smile in itself will not mean that a smiling is drowning. But the domestic culture of anticipation and expectations of cataclysms is more likely to confirm this formula-it almost always unbearable seems to be what you will have to remember with tenderness, and it is truly terrible when there really is nothing to be afraid of or even nobody. When they say “it’s good that there is no Russia” - it will probably be interesting to remember this when it really doesn’t, but it’s already funny that the main speaker on apocalyptic issues today is not a clicking poet, and the first state person who (before this level did not allow him) from time to time, reports that it will go to paradise after a global disaster, or that no one needs Russia, because it will not deserve it, and because it will not desperately deserves Russia. destruction. These quotes of Putin-even if they will be a formal, documentary justification for the relative popularity of the 125-year-old poet, for whom it was this age (the centuries in 1994, it seems, no one at all noticed, although it was then that the best and most complete three-volume was no longer reprinted) turned out to be the age of recognition.

Sherlockholms “about poetry and about politics” is unfair to their contrast. In fact, poetry is a policy, and when in some country portraits of poets are printed on money, this is not so much a reason to admire-they say, there are peaceful people-how much proof of the direct dependence of the social structure on rhymeed and uniform lines. If it was very rude, Hoffman wrote “Germany above all” about thirty years before the German Empire appeared on the map of Europe-this is not the reason for the lifelessness of Russian hymns, which are traditionally written last and within some completely utilitarian current state needs?

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