All about poetry 162 Miroslav Nemirov Publication date: December 11, 2003 Kononov, Nikolai Emergency This is how Irina Georgievna hit Elena Glebovna Straight to the forehead, just like that, I wasn’t afraid of the team’s opinion And especially the administration. The stars fell, and the sky where - The third day, poor thing, she can’t see, she’s turned blue like a plum.

The fact that the culture department of the Russian Journal expressed a desire to respond to the anniversary of our Constitution is gratifying, first of all, because having shown interest in this phenomenon (the Constitution of the Russian Federation), which cannot in any way be mistaken for a script, play, landscape or symphony, The editors of the Russian Journal have shown that they are still capable of perceiving the word “culture” in its originally (from the Latin cultura - cultivation,

Fashion favorites The Tretyakov Gallery has been showing graphics by three geniuses of the Pushkin era for the second week and until spring: Alexander Orlovsky, Orest Kiprensky and Fyodor Tolstoy. The exhibition is entitled by Pushkin's line “Favors of light-winged fashion” : all three had, as we say today, cult status among their contemporaries.

About crocodiles, Singaporeans and berries Tatiana Bazzhina Publication date: December 11, 2003 My phone rang. “If my mother allowed it, I would get a crocodile, I would call him Gavrila,” came from the receiver, it was not the elephant who spoke. “He would be lying in our bathtub and our neighbor Maryivanna would make eyes early,” the excited voice of my university friend continued to recite. “No.” , tell me what it was?" “There is a suspicion that it’s poetry,” I noted timidly.

It has come, brothers, a historically transitional time - A new century is dawning for us! The leg of the armed horseman seemed to plunge into the stirrup itself, The horses rushed, the man rushed. The red "communist" flower has already bloomed And began to fly into dust, "Populist" bloomed merrily And he hurries to strengthen the colorful roses! Poem attributed to A.S.

This is criticism Issue 19 Publication date: December 11, 2003 We continue to publish conversations with literary critics. Today the guest of the column is Andrey Vasilevsky . Russian Magazine: Andrey Vitalievich, from the editor’s point of view, how does Novy Mir differ from other thick magazines? Andrey Vasilevsky: As I have had to say more than once, Novy Mir is a kind of “golden mean”, a conditional axis in relation to which other magazines are positioned (not necessarily consciously).

- Chaim, did you hear that a baby elephant was born in the Berlin Zoo! - Yes? And how will this affect the Jews? From a joke The elections took place. The votes have been counted. Fellow citizens once again froze their ears to spite the father and went home satisfied. The phrase “constitutional majority” has become firmly established in newspapers and on television.

Black people have no shame Pavel Basinsky Publication date: December 11, 2003 Why do I write to RJ, and not, say, to Literaturnaya Gazeta , where I still work? Yes, because I already wrote in “LG”. Because in general a strange situation is developing when “LG” almost “specializes” in defending Solzhenitsyn . And the rest are silent... Of the literary critics, it seems, only one Nemzer raised his voice in defense of the Russian writer, shamed him, and grabbed his head. Honor and praise to him!

Declaration of Political Consent Reflections for Constitution Day Sergey Markedonov Publication date: December 11, 2003 In Russia, over the past decade, a paradoxical attitude towards public holidays has developed, which is shared by politicians, political scientists, and ordinary citizens.