The man of the year in France, the new memoirs of Milos Forman, the European Club of Friends of the Hermitage celebrates the 10th anniversary, the 30th International Jazz Festival in Krakow, which is bought at London auctions, the Russian European woman Alexander Kolontai.
Ivan Tolstoy: Who can be called a man of the year? Our Parisian correspondent Dmitry Savitsky answers this question. Dmitry Savitsky: Neither Pierre Cornell, whose 400th birthday is celebrated in Paris, nor his rival Jean Rasin, nor Jean Batist Moliere, who shut up them all behind the belt, nor Jean Anui or our contemporary Eric-Emanuel Schmit, are not more leading dramaturs of France. The “SID” and “Andromakh”, “Tartuf” and “Ball of Thieves” are forgotten.