In October 2025, the Parisian publishing house Grasset published Andrei Kozovoy’s book “Les Exilés. Pasternak et les miens" (“Exiles. Pasternak and my family”). This is the biography of his mother, philologist and memoirist Irina Emelyanova, and his father, poet and dissident Vadim Kozovoy. But in addition to the family chronicle, these are also extremely interesting reflections on how the force field of Boris Pasternak transformed the destinies of everyone who fell into this field.

I. Ivan Chunyevich Memetyev decided to celebrate the New Year at home. In a solid apartment of 62 sq. m. on Vorobyovy Gory. It was possible, of course, to celebrate at the Aquamarine restaurant in the Luzhnikov pool. 1,500 rub. for a night without drinking. But. 1. Booze, look, it’s the new 1,500. If you drink normally, and just watch others get drunk. 2. No one will give you a separate table for one person.

In the continuation of the “Family Album” project, Ekaterina Barabash talks about her mother Eleonora Petrovna Barabash, the legendary editor of the Mosfilm association “Telefilm”, and later of Goskino. In this part - about the choice of Yuri Solomin for the main role in “His Excellency’s Adjutant”, work on scripts with Alexei German and Andrei Tarkovsky, an attempt to launch Vasily Shukshin with a film about Razin and the impossibility of managing the freedom that suddenly arrived.