Empty places

Journalist Alexander Baunov writes:

“The most ignorant that I had to meet recently was the joy of figures of a patriotic culture about the disposal of certain directors, writers, actors and artists from the domestic creative space, to the exclamations of" well, and more free space for us. " This is some complete ignorance of how culture is arranged.

Okay, small patriots, but figures must understand that the poet, writer, director and artist does not occupy someone’s place, he creates his own, creates a space that has not been before him, and after him will not, and along with the person the position he discovered is closed. Because they shot the "White Guard Gumilyov", Russian poetry did not have a new Gumilyov, even though the proletarian, although no, simply did not become Gumilyov and his poems ceased. And Mandelstam's poems stopped, and not someone spoke to him stanza, but in the right direction. And because, inside the beautiful new world without enemies, only for his own from among his own, Yesenin hanged from longing and Mayakovsky shot himself, his world did not produce the new Yesenin and Mayakovsky, no matter how he tried, and runs after their shadows. From the fact that Brodsky was sent and lost Tarkovsky, others did not appear, there was simply an empty space. From the fact that Chaliapin went on tour and did not return, no one in the People’s Commissariat of Education sang with Chaliapin bass, so he was the main Russian bass and was left, and Russia was left without him.

Do they remember whether the figures are exclusively patriotic culture about this? They remember, but they really want to forget. It all seems to them that they will get more air in the chest, they will swim the cheeks wider, and Chaliapin’s bass will sound from them, it remains a little, is it really not important for the sake of the homeland and her victory where and over what, but he will not sound. They know the result, but they are afraid to admit. ”