What can provoke the resignation of the head of the cultural institution of strategic significance - say, the theater, located exactly opposite the Kremlin and keeping the memories of those happy times when he was entrusted with the role of the cultural facade of the empire? According to the logic of things, the dismissal of the director of this theater should have been preceded by the gradual growth of dissatisfaction with the artistic policy he realized.

Petrushevskaya At the end of May, the public celebrated the anniversary of Lyudmila Stefanovna Petrushevskaya. In particular, Andrei Bitov in a small text in Novaya Gazeta admits: “She rolled me, as I thought, with a novel, and this is just a story -“ Time Night ”. Such a powerful impression of the work, which seemed - was a whole novel. “Time of Night” is such a thing in prose, which I have nothing to compare with. This is no female, not the other prose.

1. Regham. 1880-1910s Ragteim originated among Negro pianists-amateur. The peak of the popularity of reghads falls on the first decade of the 20th century, but they appeared twenty years earlier. The popularity of regai at the beginning of the 20th century was largely associated with a massive request for dance music. The phonograph was not yet common, and the masses of ordinary Americans danced under the piano.