Schulz archive

Vladimir Paperny is a culturologist, architectural historian, designer, writer. His book about Stalinist architecture “Culture two” became an intellectual bestseller.
Los Angeles. Emigrant Alexander Schulz, Shusha, suddenly receives a parcel. In the box - sheets and coils with records. Exploring, it would seem, already forever lost archive, the architect Schulz is completing the story of his family. This story becomes a real “Russian novel”, where humor is no less than drama, and love defeats death again.
“Roman“ Schultz Archive ”restores in memory a picture of Soviet life in its marginal, semi -underground and unclaimed area. A wonderful demonstration of the indestructibility of culture, which, like underground water, still finds its own ways, and a fascinating story about the generation of persecuted, smart and funny. ”
Lyudmila Ulitskaya, Moscow
“ Mosaic of bright portraits, sharp episodes and entertaining people Anecdots are formed in the inevitable, the following internal logic of the era of Shushi: from the native roots, the harsh past, violent youth until the last address - America. The author and I opened her with the same years, therefore, witness and accomplice, I can firmly say: with genuine true.
Alexander Genis, New York