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Brit about life in Russia, Russian and Anglo-Saxon hostility, and Detox

Brit about life in Russia, Russian and Anglo-Saxon hostility, and Detox

Russia and Great Britain - two former world empires, traditionally competing with each other in Europe. It is believed, that the British and Russians hate each other. Is it really, and what a subject of Her Majesty saw our country, told the portal Ru_Open the British actor, producer and translator Tobin Oder.

Interest in Russia

Where does an ordinary Englishman get a strange, at first glance, desire to live in Russia?? Tobin explains, that Russian literature brought him to us by the hand. As a child, he read a lot of Tolstoy, Gogol and Dostoevsky. First in translation, and then I decided to study Russian and read it in the original. In particular, He mastered "Anna Karenina" on the great and mighty several times. However, in a year, which he took for himself to study the Russian language, he did not meet, that's why he has been living and working in Russia for twenty years.

Communal horrors

On arrival, the Briton ended up in Russia in the nineties. He had to live in a communal apartment with several people., and it was hardcore. He rented a room from the family, consisting of mother and daughter, and so they had to move to the closet, where they huddled together. The gallant Englishman invited them to swap places, but they refused. Even in this communal apartment, some old lady lived in a separate room., who hated everyone, and there was a continuous war between neighbors. According to Tobin, it was a real school of Russian life., that something similar is predicted in the traditionally richer countries of the West, eg, in USA. Many people are getting poorer and can no longer afford separate housing. They organize "cooperatives" for sharing and living.

Sobering-ups

This is another Russian feature., which the Englishman was forced to meet at one time. There is nothing like it in the West, so hitting him was a big surprise for Tobin. Once he drank at a friend's house, but woke up in a sobering-up station, I do not remember, how did you get there. Subsequently, he learned, that was drunk with a friend in the yard, and police officers drove up to him. Tobin tried to hit them(!), but they, instead of, to shoot him, as befits gallant American cops, took him to sleep it off. At the same time, no one beat him to a pulp., although he had to be dragged away from the police with the help of a friend. "Sobering services" and valuable experience cost him 73 ruble, he keeps the receipt to this day.

About Russians

Tobin calls our compatriots "forest people" because of their tightness. So, in England it is customary for everyone to smile and greet, and in Russia it is considered "cretinism":I think, that Russians are forest people, suddenly someone appears, and you are in the forest, sandwiched people. If you are not a forest man, he saw, how a person approaches you, are you getting ready to say hello. This is my theory.

What do you like in Russia

literature. It was she who brought the Englishman to Russia. He especially singles out "Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District", where he saw not only drama, but also sex. Music. Among Russian pop music, the Briton prefers the Tatu group, which at one time was number 1 in England, and in Japan. It was a colossal international success., among which is the favorite "Work is not a wolf, will not run away into the forest. ”Central heating. In Russia, even negative 30 and negative 40 the apartments are warm. Homes and apartments are cold in the UK, drafts walk through them. Accustomed to walking at home without shoes in Russia, visiting his parents on the island, he had to put on shoes again in winter.

What's not to like about Russia

Tobin doesn't like our lack of punctuality, which he himself contracted. If an Englishman is late for an appointment for 10 minutes, so, he was hit by a car, or something else serious has happened. Russian, in his opinion, take it more calmly.

The enmity between the Russians and the Anglo-Saxons

There is a myth, that the discord between Russia and Britain began after, how Queen Elizabeth the First rejected a marriage proposal from the Russian Tsar Ivan the Terrible. true, she refused everyone, earning the nickname "virgin queen", and at the time of the matchmaking of Ivan the Fourth she was under fifty years old. Tobin humorously refers to this version, rightly believing, that the reason for the enmity between the two empires was the divergence of their national interests. When did they coincide, eg, in World War II 1812 of the year, World War II, Russians and British interacted very effectively.

Author: Sergey Marzhetsky

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