I am the dreams of Mikhail Davidovich (b. 1946) - poet, translator, children's writer. The author of five books of lyrics, one and a half dozen poetry books for children, as well as numerous translations from French poetry.

Seine, etc. Issue 16 Review of current online events and publications Tatyana Danilova Publication date: January 11, 2002 It will begin now , right now. It’s as if someone gave the go-ahead and glamorous typhoons blew out: digital lifestyle struck . It was explained to me that the nasty word “gadget” means electronic toys for adults and non-adults: spillikins, wicks, BlueTooth for GameBoy , talking clocks, wind-up parrots, refrigerators with a built-in video camera, playing mp3.

We have boom a Bukowski . Charles Bukowski is everywhere. There are three or four of his books on book shelves at a time, the same novel is published in different translations, some publish “all of Bukowski”; what has already been published in bulk is published in the form of collected works; what has not yet been published hangs on the Internet.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Among other glorified jokes and jokes of Stalin I.V. There is a phrase that he once wrote in the fields of the poem (namely poems - in verses!) M. Gorky "Girl and Death": "This thing is stronger than Faust Goethe!" . Further will be a reasoning about some considerations arising from this. So, this remark is a rather amazing remark. Firstly, it is surprising in it that it follows from him that Stalin I.

Is there copyright in Russia? Grigory Zaslavsky Publication date: January 11, 2002 Here are two of the most recent examples. On New Year's Eve, at the Mossovet Theater was performed the play "Cyrano de Bergerac" . Here - not about the performance, of course, but about authorship. In the poster and program, of course, the author of the heroic comedy is indicated - the French playwright Edmond Rostand.

Koreans of the CIS, or the Extraordinary Adventures of Confucians in Russia. Ending Andrey Lankov Publication date: January 11, 2002 The beginning is here . Around 1988, a short period of “Korean national revival” began, when Korean national associations and groups began to spring up like mushrooms in all the republics of the USSR.

Our ancestors, free shepherds of Arcadia, did not eat their fellow citizens every day, but only during the annual celebration in honor of Apollo, the wolf god, patron of cattle breeders, hunters and killers. The shepherds gathered on Lyceum Hill and cooked a stew of lamb and human flesh in a large cauldron.

Apology for bias Notes from the week. Mikhail Remizov Publication date: January 11, 2002 The landscape of the world is inherently uneven; life is woven from asymmetries and scars; society is a set of mobile hierarchical positions. So why on earth should we “smooth out” and artificially unify all this through the perverted communication standard of “political correctness”?

Regarding one review Ekaterina Margolis Publication date: January 11, 2002 Dear editor, Thank you very much for your attention to the book “Venetian notebooks. Joseph Brodsky and others” , for your analysis and comments. Unfortunately, however, not all review authors were attentive enough . In Elena Stafieva’s article “Bow to the Shadow” there was a funny and at the same time quite gross inaccuracy that offended Lev Losev , whom I respect very much .

Festival everyday life Shostakovich and Bruckner in the Great Hall of the Conservatory Tatyana Rybakina Publication date: January 11, 2002 At the main concert venues in Moscow, those that are primarily associated with classical music - the halls of the Conservatory and the Tchaikovsky Hall - there is a festival dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the capital's Philharmonic. The poster contains famous names that make up the glory of Russian art.

Control shot Nadezhda Shapiro Publication date: January 11, 2002 About fifteen years ago, schoolchildren became increasingly fond of playing candy wrappers. The school principal strictly forbade this game - it is gambling or can become gambling. One seventh grader muttered angrily: “What does candy wrappers have to do with it?

Great Firewall Victor Zakharchenko Publication date: January 11, 2002 On September 20 , 1987, Professor Qian Tianbai sent the first Chinese E-Mail from China with the title “Access to the World Through the Great Wall,” thus marking the beginning of the use of the Internet by the Chinese.

Joseph Brodsky and Mikhail Kozakov Together with Igor Butman, a famous jazz player, Kozakov made a performance based on the poems of Joseph Brodsky Irina Kholmogorova Publication date: January 11, 2002 Many years ago , Mikhail Kozakov , who, of course, was once part of the cohort of those who defined the time of Efremov and Efros in the Soviet theater, left for Israel. "For permanent residence." His departure was one of the many symptoms of the end of a (great?) era.

Kuritsyn-weekly from January 11, 2002 Vyacheslav Kuritsyn Publication date: January 11, 2002 But his things remain (note by V. Kuritsyn) What does the legend say? "Before Eve there was Lilith." Before Eve there was Lilith - The one who didn’t pick an apple. She was not a wife, not a wife, - Passed by, side by side. Not from clay, not from ribs - From pre-dawn silver. Smiled from the reeds - And disappeared for all centuries.