Downshift is a fashionable phenomenon, a bright trend in Russia. Almost every week, articles on the career "downward movement" appear in one week or another Internet media. For decades, the ideas and practice of downshift have been analyzing Western sociologists - in our country, the phenomenon has gained immense popularity in recently.

"I am not doing to the public, I just live somehow" B. Mikhailov Three series of works of the photographer Boris Mikhailov - “Red”, “Brown” and “Yesterday's Sandword” were exhibited in the Moscow Museum of Art4.ru. According to the organizers, they are set together for the first time.

Igor Shevelev’s review of Olga Kuchkina’s novel “In the Lobny Bone Tower”, in the main character of which, the famous artist Vasily Zhemov, is easily identified by the famous writer Vladimir Bogomolov, prompted me to think about how his invented front -line biography was inextricably linked with his most famous and still popular, “The moment of truth (in August of the other two fourth).” In the wake of Olga Kuchkina, I met people who knew Bogomolov as Vladimir Iosifovich Votinsky.

The first full-fledged opera of the 25-year-old genius (created in 1916, the world premiere took place in 1929 in Brussels, the first production in Russia in 1974 at the Bolshoi Theater) decisively cancel the centuries-old canon. Written from Dostoevsky’s early novel, it does not relieve a poetic libretto, but on a prose text completely not adapted to opera music, where people meticulously find out monetary issues, while in difficult psychological relations.

L.A. Kalinnikov. Immanuel Kant in Russian poetry (philosophical and aesthetic sketches). - M.: "Canon +" ROOI "Rehabilitation", 2008. - 416 p.: Ill. Kalinnikov, a local historian-enthusiast calls all this with a sketch of sketches, is to the same as such a genre definition does not oblige anything and gives the book a light fleur of thoughtfulness and lyrical sadness.