Magazine "Personalities" №8 August 2013

In the room:
Mikhail Bulgakov: Climbing
Malvina Voronova
At the end of the twentieth century, the modernity of Mikhail Bulgakov was still sharply felt. The first reading generation of "Masters and Margarita" was acquainted with Roman in Samizdat, feeling his dissident taste. The second perceived the book through the prism of the myth about the brief artist, romantizing his personality. The reader of the eighties-nineties captured the Devilian mysticism of the writer, that a lot had the spirit of his creativity. Today, the idea of ​​the works of Bulgakov is even wider than they themselves: our imagination is tempted by numerous filmms and productions, where, in fact, there are no so many master as its vision of directors. The author who was written: "And if I? , I took my rightful place among world importance writers. But his voice began to sound distant, because something happened, about which Mikhail Afanasyevich dreamed of all his life: he became a classic.
Johann Strauss: Under the sounds of the unstasive waltz
Elena Buttakova
Almost the entire XIX century of passionateness of Europe passed under the sounds of the velse. It seemed to surpass two Corifeans who created the Vienna Waltz, - Johann Strauss and Joseph Lanner, is impossible. However, in the middle of the century they had to be enjoyed to free the place at the Music Olympus another Strauss. An example of Johanna Strauss-Son is unnecessary confirmation that nature does not always rest on children outstanding people. His talent and glory was much surpassed fatherly, and it was he who was awarded the title of "King Waltz.
Veronica Franco: Beauty in Venetian
Tatyana Vinnichenko
Kurtyzanka and poetess: this is interesting? But her biography is much more reliable on legends than on a meager archive material. And her poems remained in their epoch, and today they represent literary and literary interest. But there is a city - ancient and alive, amazing, not similar to any other. City with female name and female face. Veronica Franco is Venice, and it is impossible to divide them.
John Glenn Space Odyssey
Julia Sheket
A typical American national hero at first glance seems like an invention of mass culture. Is it possible to exist a superman who is under the power and fight with the enemies and conquer space gave and remain an exemplary family man and a patriot? But the person who can be without stretching and quite seriously apply all these characteristics, really lives: this is John Glenn, who gave the Americans with no less pride than Gagarin - Soviet people. The life of the famous astronaut is an almost exemplary plot for Hollywood cinema. And considering what a long and saturated life is, even for the series.
Mikhail Koltsov: wondrous new world
Mikhail Dubineansky
Who can be considered an influential journalist? Author, whose sparkled articles read the whole country? The omnipresent reporter wheeling in the light? Founder of popular printed publications? Man, in the highest government spheres? Performer special instructions in hot spots? Mikhail Koltsov was on the shoulder all: from editing the "light and" crocodile "to reports from Turkey and Afghanistan, from Fakenov for" Truth "to secret operations in the warring Spain. And the legendary journalist of the Stalinist era did something more: with the help of his feather created a new civilization that did not have analogues in history. True, this creative experiment ended sadly.
Alfred Hitchcock: a person who knew about the fear of all
Yana Dubinyanskaya
"In America, you call this man Hich. In France, he is called Monsieur Hichkok ... So began his speech on honoring on the occasion of awarded Hichkoka awards "for achieving the whole life" French director Francois Thiffo. His book about the senior colleague, written in the form of an interview, is a conversation of two true pro and artists who understand each other with a half-clow. About the most important thing for them both - about movies. But that evening, the Hollywood audience was noisy around, who was accustomed to proclaim the old man"s banal panelists, and for the eyes of gossiping his bad character, peculiar jokes and funny oddities like fear of eggs. Of course, these people understood little