"Where is my pillow - there is my house"

They asked famous people to talk about the things that they took with them to emigration

This year, many left their homes in almost one day or decided not to return from vacation. “Cold” spoke with famous people who moved from Russia because of the war, about things that give them a sense of home.

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Historian Tamara Eidelman , Lisbon

It so happened that my vacation smoothly moved into exile, because of which I did not have especially important things with me. But then I asked me to bring me the first volume of the old ten -volume collected works of Pushkin, which in 1961 my grandfather and grandmother gave my dad for my birthday and signed it. For me, this book embodies a connection with the history of the family and with Russian culture.

Director Kantemir Balagov , Los Angeles

I took a Leica camera with me: I dreamed about it all my life. Yes, and you can sell the camera if it becomes bad with money. Unfortunately, there is no exciting story with this thing, as well as incentive photographs. The camera helps to distract, but I rarely use it. Such a paradox.

Blogger and producer Petr Ploskov , Bali

I took with me a diploma of international education, a bracelet donated by a best friend that I do not take off, and PlayStation to experience this fierce stress. The first couple of months I often played, going into another reality, and it helped me very much. And now I don’t even go to the prefix. Puffen - life is established.

Dubbing Artist Olga Kravtsova , Lisbon

I took with me a buckwheat pillow, which weighs three kilograms, because I have been sleeping on it for 12 years: where is my pillow - there is a house. She also took a thin favorite blanket, a cup, a packaging of Greenfield with a taste of barberry, chamomile tea from a pharmacy, a fridge magnet and a small stand for jewelry in the shape of a tree. She moved with me in St. Petersburg from one rented apartment to another. With her, like with a pillow: where is the "tree" - there is my bedroom.

About a year and a half ago, the guys from the workshop “simple things” contacted me, where people with mental features make towels, t -shirts, ceramics, flags and a crown from textiles. All the time I wore their crown in St. Petersburg and took it with me in emigration. And recently I called the subscribers from Lisbon (they all ended up in Portugal due to the war) to meet with the fountain, who fulfilled one of my desires that to throw coins there together. I came in a crown that people with mental features in St. Petersburg sewed. In this special crown, the guys and I threw coins and made wishes - I hope they will come true.

Journalist Masha Borzunova , Riga

When in March I was going to the airport in a few hours, I still did not understand how much I was leaving. Although deep down, of course, she realized that for a long time. In addition to ordinary things, without thinking, I put photos with relatives and friends in a suitcase. But I also really wanted to take something that would remind of the house, some simple thing. And then I remembered a mug from Starbax, from which I constantly drink tea. She was presented to me classmates when I studied at a school in Podolsk, somewhere in 2007-2009. I remember that then Starbax was very fashionable, of course it was not in our city, and they gave me a set with a mug and coffee syrup. And it somehow happened that this circle traveled with me to all the apartments in which I lived. Therefore, I put it in a suitcase.