Journal Znamya No. 3. 2022

The March number was compiled for a long time, and it comes out on the days, for all of us, tragic ones. And he will read, of course, under their sign, when the main ones again became so simple, but such necessary requirements to the world - the world! " And there is no war! "
The fact that any violence is criminal about the fact that each of us is responsible for our country and its future, Alexander Arkhangelsky directly says, whose essays were included in the selection of statements by the Laureates of the Prizes of 2021. Thoughts about the unity of culture, about humanism as the highest universal value are united by the "Small Nobel Speech" and our other laureates - Anton Azarenkov, Sergey Borovikov, Yakov Gordin, Natalia Gromova, Irina Rodnyanskaya, Natalia Sokolovskaya. "About the word, about the light, about the darkness" recall the verses of Svetlana Kekova, in the counterpoint with whom the lyrical monologues and the oldest poet Pavel Grushko, and Anton Bakharev, the Lunyovskaya T -shirt, representing a new literary generation in the room. Sasha Filipenko in the final chapters of the novel "Cremonizer" rivets the monstrous experience of Stalinism. The thematic repertoire of the “Ban”, as usual, is very wide, but it is believed that readers will hear the word of truth in the stories of our regular authors Pavel Selukov, Ilya Oganzhanov, and in the "legends of New York" Marat Baskin, and in the debut publication of Dmitry Lagutin, Which is on the magazine pages is Ilya Kochergin. Under a special, not often found section "benefit", new lines of Igor Volgin are placed, celebrating his 80th anniversary in March, and the essay of Marina Kudimova "Furor Poeticus, or production gymnastics dedicated to his work.
Past as the key to understanding the present again comes to life in the passionate essay of Vasily Aksenov, who was extracted from the archive "Gratitude of the holding, and in the short memoir of Lev Timofeev" My Little Africa, and in historical evidence of the article by Lev Simkin"s `` Brid River San ", which tells about people who fled from Poland from the second war and who fell from fire and in the driving - to Soviet concentration camps. Anastasia Baranovich-Polivanova, who recently overcame the line of the 90th anniversary, shares his thoughts, his life experience with the young generation of readers. Sergei Kalashnikov analyzes the subtexts of one of the Mandelstam poems. Sergei Gandlevsky offers fresh reading of the fate and poetry of Alexander Mezhirov. Archival and memoir publications in magazines at the transition from the past to this year under the traditional for the “banner "Retraining" overlap, looking from Kyiv, Efim Hoffmann.
And - no matter how difficult the circumstances of the place and time are - the life of culture is continued. Maria Krutchenko in the section "Expertise" is given his commentary on the book stores in the February issue in the February issue. New books, new literary projects - in the field of view of the journal "observer, where Irina Muravyeva speaks of the unexpected prose of the poet Vladimir Gandelsman, Elena Solovyova is presented by the story of Tatyana Rizdvenko, about the verses of Estonian Calle Kasper, translated by Petersburger Alexei Purin, reflects Alexander Vergelis, to the novel Anna Matveeva is turning the readers of the readers Alexander Markov, Stanislav Secrets tells about the collective collection of “daughter-mother”. Each interestingly conceived, although perhaps not a successful book deserves attention - and the novel by Alexandra Shalashova, about whom Kirill Yamshchikov speaks of, and the novel by Anastasia Courland, reviewed by Alexander Cantsev, and the desperate anti -imperial book Linor Goralik, which served as a reason for thought Maria Melnikova. The fundamental set of the Lotman family of the Lotman family for 1940-1946, who will probably want to replenish their personal libraries and philologists, and many other connoisseurs of the history of literature will probably want to replenish their personal libraries represented by Pavel Glushakov.
Under the curtain, as always, the traditional "cursive of Olga Ball" - brief response to new poetic collections of Vitaly Pukhanov, Tatyana Voltskaya and Irina Ermakova