Magazine Znamya No. 4. 2022

The works for the April number were selected in a peaceful but already alarming time - hence the foreboding, expressed by a line from the Elena Lazutkina cycle: "near the stations clogged", which penetrates the poems of Oleg Domorov ("The composition passed Sarapul and Agryz") and Dmitry) and Dmitry) and Dmitry Psurtseva ("" One cat is not disgusting to me ... ") However, the lyrics and in difficult times remain the lyrics, first of all, the love - in the poetry of Vera Pavlova ("You cannot be pardoned"), Vladimir the recipe ("it was love ..."), in Elena’s prose they will be tidy ("Wheel. Three Tales of Love") And Alice Hancis ("Heart and Glass") The number represents very different generations, language and style of the storytellers - the dramatic elegy of George Davydov ("Winner of the Desert"), the exact eye of Arina Obukh ("Hearing us ..."), shifts of the reality of Alexei Ilyushkina ("straw cabbage soup"), Fackshn Georgy Efremov ( "Mission 108. Free abstract of one family history")
In the heading of the Archive ", the reader will find the poems of Leonid Shevchenko" for fifty Ukrainian rubles", the publication of Elena Lastovina and Sergey Kalashnikov, and unexpected by the Russian-American researcher of literature and poet Vladimir Markov "Essay on Music", the publication of Mikhail Efremov.
when they burden the era "-the Akhmatov line in the light of the tragic events of our time, Natalya Ivanova, name her article-study of the prose of the 90s and about the 90s-a sign for the post-Soviet history of the country of the era, which received a variety of epithets over the past decades, from "dashing" to "saints" and "cursed". Free- here is the closest definition to them, the author believes. A long life, rich in creativity, trials and friendship, recalls and thinks in an interview with Galina Smolensk portrait painter Boris Zhutovsky. Dmitry Bavilsky through the impressions of the blockbuster exhibition in the new Tretyakov Gallery represents his opinion - "Vrubel as a premonition". Boris Ponomarev, a participant in the prose seminar in Zvenigorod, analyzes the poetics and expectations of the "production" films (recalling among others "magnetic storms" Abdrashitov) in the essay "victims of the cast -iron gods".
Irina Surat resurrects the plot of the fate of the priest and poet Nikolai Bruni, who had a challenging Blok at Nikola in the Sands in 1921 and shot in 1938, in the article "Priest and Poets". Ilya Vinitsky re -reflects the Buninsky story "Easy Breath", and Olga a point in the review of "Disaster"s anthropology" returns publications in journal periodicals dedicated to the topic of a person at a fracture of eras.
In "Observer" Read the reviews of new books: "Russian Winter" of Roman Senchin (Alexander Cyntsev), "Poems. The memoirs of “Alexander Radkovsky (Alexander Zorin), the Anthology“ Time turned out: Modern Russian Antiopia "(Artem Komarov)," We will return "Ganna Komar (Vladimir Korkunov)," Cultural -Filosophylosophers of Anatoly Koroleva, Irina Skoropanova (Marina Abasheva), "and Hell of Hell followed him. The life and fate of Anatoly Kuznetsova "Pavel Matveeva (Polina Zherebtsova)," Wisdom of Hope and other conversations about Dante "Olga Sedakova (Alexander Markov) Theatrical impressions of the last of the productions based on the play by Thomas Bernhard "Family Album" directed by Mindaugas Karbauskis, in connection with the latest events of the Mayakovsky Theater, Pavel Rudnev shares. We sincerely hope that the announcements of the subsequent Aesopa numbers are not required