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Triumph and tragedy Michael Zhvanetskogo

Triumph and tragedy Michael Zhvanetskogo

The main purpose of Zhvanetsky is to close the era, which made him famous

“Rock and roll is dead, but I am not yet, Rock and roll is dead, but I am not yet,

they, who loves us, looking after us,

Rock and roll is dead, and I - not yet "

The cult prophet of the public during the decay period of the late USSR, Boris Grebenshchikov, in these lines reflected the whole drama of the outlived former idol, imprinted in due time, like a fly to amber. Time has passed, the world has changed, but the idols of the past remained the same, what were they long ago.

They examine themselves in surprise., that have become a vestige of the past in a new era, and wonder what happened as a miracle. Their audience is gone, they are no longer interesting to former admirers, new viewers are indifferent, other times and other idols fill the public's attention. Trying to hold on is frustrating and pitying, and sometimes annoying. Many are disgusted.

Lack of the ability to understand yourself adequately is the trouble of any talent, who expressed his time and his generation. A generation is leaving, it changes the conditions of existence. Old truths are reevaluated, and for the new there are new spokesmen. The old become the one, what during the days of his triumph Andrei Makarevich described - another outlived idol of the past generation: “The dolls will be removed from the strings of long, and, covered with mothballs, in the form of rags will be folded in chests ". Makarevich himself has now become such a naphthalene doll of the past, causing annoyance to former admirers to the degree of toothache. Could he have imagined such a thing about himself at the height of popularity?

Mikhail Zhvanetsky is the same person of the late Soviet era, like Alla Pugacheva. These two names are symbols of the degeneration and decline of the Empire.. Jesters and harlequins have become a symbol of the era, the voice of time, spokesmen for the secret thoughts and aspirations of the people. They drove out pilots and polar explorers, astronauts and artists, geologists and sailors, physicists and lyricists. The vulgarity ascended the throne and began to rule minds and souls.

Once Zhvanetsky accurately expressed the dreams of his generation. more precisely, not the whole generation, and that part of it, who ascribed herself to the real spokesmen of her time - the Soviet intelligentsia, bored of lack of thrill, sexual revolution and consumer abundance. They saw themselves as victims of the era, and power is the culprit of their wasted life, who stole their right to happiness.

All, who could not only keep a fig in his pocket, but also with talented hints to describe its presence and image, without taking your hands out of your pockets, became heroes of the time. "The night watchmen scared us, how the smallpox ached for us " – Vladimir Vysotsky accurately described the sense of his mission by this group, one of a series of similar idols, whose bright talent contributed to the destruction of decrepit Soviet culture, followed by statehood – because it turned out, that it is on culture that the state stands, not on the economy, army and officials. And culture is values ​​and respect for them.

“The universal experience says, that kingdoms do not die because, that everyday life is difficult or ordeals are terrible. And they die because (and so it hurts, the longer), that the people of their kingdom no longer respect ". So far away 1968 year expressed his "Premonition of a civil war" Bulat Okudzhava - another idol of that time.

Need to say, that they were all really extremely talented and took the place of opinion leaders by right. Nobody gave it to them, he took it because, that were popular and recognized. But it turned out, what talent and wisdom, talent and morality are far from coinciding concepts. Bright talent is capable of brightly destroying, and life in ruins is the tragedy of admirers of such talent.

After, how the laughter rocked the power, the people grew bolder and demolished their statehood. Yes, in fact, the people were provoked by the authorities. The authorities were preparing the assassination of the country, and laughters, went, entertainers were in demand by her. Mikhail Bakhtin wrote great, how carnival kills the idea that created the country and the people. A fit of laughter leaves you feeling tired, overstrain, devastation. Laughter has never healed, did not save, did not spare. Laughter was a drug, creating the illusion of escape from the intolerance of being. After, how a person went into laughter, being disintegrated.

Zhvanetsky triumphed for a while after the collapse of the USSR. It was the time of his triumph. Even in his wildest dreams, he didn't think, that this time will come in his lifetime. But it is not necessary to reduce the whole essence of Zhvanetsky to the fight against the state - he never set such a task. he believed, that fights against the flaws of human nature. Swagger of officials, callousness of the townsfolk, false imposed values, in which neither of them believe, who imposes them, us they, to whom they are imposed. That is, Zhvanetsky is a liberal in the most natural way, for he is for freedom.

Over time, Zhvanetsky began to lose his inclination to joke. His humor became strained and sad, lost sparkle, in some places became piercingly lyrical. It became more and more sorry for him… like Panikovsky, pulling another goose. Longing appeared in his lines. It's not just a longing for a departed youth and an ending life. This feeling of some kind of mistake of all that happened.

Zhvanetsky is not that stupid, so as not to feel it, but he's not that strong, to admit the mistake of the whole path of life. To refuse it means, give up all of yourself. From all my life. Such a feat is possible only for an ascetic who is leaving for a monastery.. You should not blame Zhvanetsky for, that he doesn't have the strength. He understands this very well.. Remember?

“I can say firmly about myself. I will never be high. And beautiful. And slim. Michelle Mercier will never love me. And in my younger years I will not live in Paris. I will not speak through an interpreter, sit at the helm and breathe oxygen. More than one person won't listen to my opinion. And this one is starting to have its own more and more.

I certainly won't be leading the Radio and Television Grand Symphony Orchestra. And I won't put on a film. And I won't get anything in Cannes. Gonna get nothing in a tuxedo, in the spotlight in Cannes. Time is running out… Do not have time. Even a simple cruiser under my command will not enter neutral waters… It won't come out of ours. And they won't pay big money for my canvases. There is no time.

And from my remarks the circus will not crash and the hall will not weep. And the horse under me will not laugh… Just ahead of me. And something will not bloom. And it won't smell like something. And the girl won't say: “I love you”. And mom won't ask: “What did you eat today, my boy?” But… But now I will tell my son: “Guy, i went through everything. I didn't become this and I didn't become that. I will pass on my experience to you”.

This is actually a confession from the shock of discovering your routine. Dramas of parting with fake dreams. This is the stage of transition from triumph to tragedy.

Zhvanetsky's tragedy manifested itself much later. Popularity in the Moscow intelligentsia turned out to be popular with the bourgeoisie, but not at all popular with the people. It turned, that Zhvanetsky broke away from the people and began to live a bohemian life - then, what he always dreamed of. The people lived very hard, and Zhvanetsky did not feel this pain. He didn't understand, that this pain from the collapse of the country, at war. And this is a war with that West, who was a source of inspiration for a whole generation of prophets and idols of the disintegrated country. Zhvanetsky does not see this war and is not able to realize, and realizing, unable to appreciate.

Zhvanetsky's moral promiscuity is reflected in his interview with Western-funded Russophobic publications. For Zhvanetsky, this is just a tribune and an opportunity to speak out. the, that it looks like an interview with a Goebbels newspaper with a complaint against the USSR of a Soviet party Jew, he doesn't think. Here in an interview with "Interlocutor" Zhvanetsky expresses his attitude to what is happening in Russia (Zhvanetsky is afraid to talk about his attitude to what is happening in Ukraine and avoids questions):

“Everything rises in price. You always console yourself: “It got worse, but still bearable ". But I intuitively feel the build up of something bad. I see money counting in my pockets… There was a time, when you didn't know, how much is in your wallet. And now I should know.

At the same time, our society will gladly starve., but build rockets… And that, to be full, and launch rockets, for some reason no one in the government has proposed yet ".

And in the 90s he did not see it? Or did he not count money then? Then Luzhkov gave him a jeep, and Zhvanetsky was delighted. He was printed and invited, he didn't need. But the country lived differently. People have always counted money in their wallet.. After the collapse of the USSR, Zhvanetsky stopped seeing it?

And this is a phrase about “starve, but build rockets "? This is a direct reproach for stupidity. We have already been led into perestroika on cries for oil instead of guns. How did it end, everyone saw. In the USSR, in Yugoslavia, on Iraq and Libya. Syria. Zhvanetsky does not understand such a simple thing, that the country was on the brink of a military invasion of the West? He does not understand, why you can't combine cannons and oil? He believes, what if you give up and don't make guns, then there will be more oil? Human, thought of, that he is smart, turned out to be so stupid?

You can try to blame everything on the local Odessa limitation. On the lack of a statist instinct among immigrants from Odessa. But I disagree with this for one simple reason.. During the Patriotic War Odessa became a hero city. Odessa residents fought in the Odessa catacombs, they stood to death, but did not give their city to the enemy.

And this is not a city of philistines and collaborators. This is the city of the imperials, deeply felt their involvement in a big country, who understood themselves as its integral part. And since Odessa is multinational, then she gave the number of patriots from all nationalities. David Gotsman from the film "Liquidation" – a prototype of a real hero and one more confirmation of this. So who is the real symbol of Russian imperial Odessa - Zhvanetsky or Gotsman?

Odessa Khatyn 2014 of the year showed once again the true essence of Odessa. This is our city, hero city, soldier city. But Zhvanetsky said, that now Odessa is dead for him, since the old Odessa no longer exists. Is not it so? Zhvanetsky did not condemn what is happening in Ukraine. He always sidesteps this topic.. He's just shocked by violence and cruelty. All. It supposedly exists on its own. Without reference to specific names and surnames. But it never happens.

You can still count, that he fears for the life of his relatives there. But, quoting Zhvanetsky himself, can say: "Something prevents me from believing in this Latin". Another phrase from his interview with "Interlocutor":

“But most of all Zhvanetsky is outraged in Russia by sloppiness and total impunity: “You can't just treat all this. the, that the gas system is useless and the roads are not cleaned - this is already customary for Russia. But that, that the courts do not work, unusual for me. This mess", – says Zhvanetsky ".

Courts do not work? And before they always worked? Russia balances on a knife blade. She's got a war, sanctions, NATO across all borders, Ukraine has turned into a staging area for an invasion - and Zhvanetsky is dissatisfied with gas pipelines and unclean roads. Where the roads aren't cleaned? In Moscow? In which place? I have clean roads everywhere in the Kuban. And gas was supplied to the villages several years ago.

We have a different problem - the sanctions hit the welfare of the entire people. Business is very difficult to get out of the rubble, created during the collapse of the USSR, when the country lost common space. What Michal Mikhalych and his comrades once had a very good hand in, without knowing it. And the arms race, unleashed by the USA, diverts money for missiles, so not beloved by Zhvanetsky.

This is how the country lives. And the "Country Officer" does not know this, because for a long time “lives, not feeling the country under me ". Life is increasingly separating Zhvanetsky and the country, where he lives. The liberal sect of the capital replaced the Zhvanetsky people, and this is the tragedy of the writer, talented, but very limited in understanding the essence of what is happening. 85-years - age, from which you expect to learn the lessons of the past and wisdom in understanding mistakes, as well as courage in their recognition. But, apparently, "There is no more time". And that experience, what does Zhvanetsky have, the current generation does not need.

Zhvanetsky's time is gone, although he himself does not understand this. Zhvanetsky is so outdated, how outdated is liberalism. The essence of Zhvanetsky's work is the search for everyday bourgeois happiness. In a country at war, survived the breakup, betrayal and fighting for life, it's shallow and vulgar. It revealed, that the main purpose of Zhvanetsky is to close the era, which made him famous. Annoyance and disappointment is that, what was left after Zhvanetsky. A sad outcome of a saturated, but a useless life.

Alexander Chaldean

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