Old age and joy. The essay of Alexander Genis Peter Sarukhanov / "New Gazeta" 1. Mirror Having caught the reflection, I do not recognize myself. Friends find a resemblance to Lenin, I - with my father, and it does not please me. Its features appear through the image that I, like everyone, wear inside. The mirror also did not convince his father. He was used to being different, but it did not allow him to. The father died, without reconciling with the fraud of the age with whom I am negotiating.