in fact, I thought a full interview with a major writer, as befits a distinguished milestone. In the Danish material there is a famous Convention: in addition to the reader’s interest to abide by the unspoken rule is to please the celebrant. But yesterday, when I familiarly called, letting himself in the strength of old acquaintance without distinction of age, said, “Yes, write what he pleases, and in any case proceda as the sketch side, and the luck as a finished obituary” — a joke, notice in the signature style of the celebrant.
In the Olympic Albertville after the Banquet in honor of the opening of the Games looked to his room — he was lying on the bed, clearly tired of the festival. I was delighted, but immediately complained that no one the glass of water to apply to the person in years (he was then thirty years younger). Around — we lived in journalistic Dorm was full of people. And of course, I was indignant that one of my colleagues did not think to take care of the mater. Taking the glass from me, he cordially thanked him, explaining: “And then alcohol to dissolve nothing.” Alcohol was freely sold in the neighboring cottage with our pharmacy.
Theory of relativity
I Remember the lush presentation in the mid-nineties, Nilin, is almost an actor by education first enrolled at the School-Studio of MKHAT, led a long conversation with Oleg Efremov in the side of the buffet table, but, of course, a bottle of whiskey. They were approached by the head of the troupe of the Moscow art theatre Tatiana Bronze, concerned that her boss had already started something to note before coming to the Banquet. Efremov has presented her Nelina as your student. She said cautiously, “He’s an artist?” “He’s an artist,” with a clear hitch Yefremov said — and then found a more accurate wording: “But also very deep… scholar”. “Deep” he uttered with a special pressure.
At the funeral of the widow of Anton Chekhov, famous Actresses Leonardovna Olga Knipper-Chekhova second year student of Nileno Director of the Studio School, taking into account its mighty addition, instructed to carry a huge wreath from the Maly theater. Nylin says that when he first fanfare from “hamlet”, set in 1913, Gordon Craig, came out of the door of the Art theater, with his classmates, who waited on the street carrying the coffin, became hysterical with laughter. However, they had to go back to school, and their friend went on the truck with the wreaths in the Novodevichy where the great artists of the Moscow art Theater and pianist Richter was surprised that in the cold March a young man without a coat.
still, Knipper-Chekhov, unlike the heroes of the books Pavlovich on Streltsova, Beeskow, Voronin, too far from the circle of my interest. But, upon reflection, I realized that memorable episodes of Dolinskoe life, in fact, is part of a bygone era, no wonder the girl had mentioned that rassmatriwaflushes the twentieth century from the present time as in the binoculars.
Nilin — the same man who in the pages of the famous magazine “Youth” struck my youthful inexperience essays about the predecessor of Lev Yashin, the famous Tigre-Khomich and a great boxer Victor Ageev, fighting in an open stance with his hands down.
He remembered a story known to many as an appointment in the London Admiralty Khomich appealed to the high people, “lady Hamiltons” instead of “ladies and gentlemen”, but saw stroke to the whole picture of post-war life, when the longing for a beautiful life, the audience were full on captured the film “Lady Hamilton”.
Impressed with the episode with the boxer Ageev, when they walked on Gogol Boulevard (I doubt that in a library), and Nilin uneasily hinted the hero of the essay, he became a close friend, about the possible loss of reaction due to too free attitude to sport mode, and the boxer in response, reaching out, instantly caught the flying Sparrow.
I was still not conceived of journalism, was amazed even then how brave the author intrudes into the inner lives of celebrities and that the conventional narrative on the brink of a foul seems no less exciting than the sport itself.
I had no idea that the people of sport you can tell, it tells Nilin. I think that the first impetus to turn his life to sports journalism came to me from milinski publications.
I’m Not sure that we have met some solinskie hope, when already settled in the profession, but one of his teachers Pavlovich’s opinion.
In the beginning of the “MK” has organized the traditional festival of Russian films “Moscow premiere” and became President Alexei Batalov — beloved gosh mentovskoj Oscar-winning film “Moscow does not believe in tears”. I got an Executive from the newspaper the role of Chairman of the jury, which at first felt not too comfortable.
With Batalov I was not familiar with, but just remember that p. long friends with a family Rodovich, where he grew up and was educated future artist in the famous apartment on Ordynka long lived Anna Akhmatova and Pasternak easily visited.
I asked advice from an older friend: how to hold Batalov? “Do not go to him to talk about the movie, — said Pavlovich. — You love the little car, and the Director, has spent half his life in the garage tinkering with motors. About the machines and we’ll talk.”
the rightness of Pavlovich at first I hesitated — still the festival opened, not auto, but glad I listened to his advice. Alexey Vladimirovich was a common topic of conversation: were discussing the merits of the twenty-first “Volga”, which both considered the best car in the USSR, and was great all the twelve years of the festival.
P��Lych remembered as a newcomer in the role of physics from the “Nine days of one year” Batalov spoke with doctor of physico-mathematical Sciences Valentina Abramovna Ioffe, daughter of the founder of the Soviet school of physics — academician Ioffe. Alexey asked: if she knows what the theory of relativity?
the Interviewee smiled and said, “Alesha, I think Einstein himself would find it difficult briefly and clearly to answer you.” “I’ll tell you.” exclaimed Batalov, recently accidentally read some popular brochure about physics. Told affectionately listened to his doctor of Sciences for his vision of this theory.
Songs of Vysotsky
somehow, he built a bridge from the Ioffe Vysotsky in his humorous song about the exercise is the line: “Chief academician Joffe has shown — cognac and coffee…” Vysotsky in the Studio School was senior Nilina, and they met on the first day of school.
In the skit, prepared by the senior course Junior, Vysotsky portrayed Charlie Chaplin, singing funny couplets composed by his school friend Igor Kochanowski (Pavlovich and knew him well).
Later, nylin said that he saw now in this speech at the party sign of the future fate of Vladimir Vysotsky — it will be clear to all, as Charlie Chaplin.
I first heard about their College friendship when we passed by the burned-out theatre restaurant on the corner of Tverskaya and Pushkin square. Remembering the former glory of his hero and close friend of the football player Valery Voronin, nylin said, I have not been flattered at the time an aspiring actor Vysotsky, appearing with Voronin at the General feast. But how fickle fate. Before his untimely death, all undeservedly forgotten Valery called from somewhere Niline in the night to confirm that he and Voronin, were once familiar with Vysotsky.
of course, I expected from the inexhaustible narrator Nilina great memoir details the life of Vladimir Vysotsky. But Pavlovich explained that being intimate with him had early youth. And then I remembered the episode as they sat in the Dorm on Trifonovskaya up in the morning in a room with students of the faculty of musical Comedy theatre Institute of Lionelli Stacks — future wife of Director Ivan pyreva, and now actor Oleg Strizhenova. And the whole night was singing — and not Vysotsky’s songs, they didn’t have, and even popular songs. And all the comic, said Pavlovich, was that he had no rumor, and the people he sang for once in my life, but Vysotsky.
once in the same restaurant the WTO Vysotsky told Nileno about his conversation with the chief Director of the theatre — it has only just arrived on Taganka Yuri Lyubimov. And said that he was willing to work at it even without a paycheck. “And what did he say?” asked Nilin. Oka��turns out, Lyubimov said that favors Vysotsky it is not necessary. Let him work for the money, but comply with required in the theatre discipline.
Funny certificates. But I would not like, but would hardly Pavlovich agreed to take him only as his fellow student of Vladimir Vysotsky.
Borjomi from Brezhnev
Alexander Nilin in itself a massive in the books and a landmark as the narrator.
Galina Brezhneva they worked together in the APN. But the novel she was not with him but with his closest friend Alexander Avdeenko, subsequently editor of “the Screen scene”. Galina invited both friends to your birthday with the participation of the Pope, of course, and some of the closest people to him (like defense Minister Dmitry Ustinov).
on the Morning of Leonid Brezhnev without anger, but with a share of astonishment asked: “And what this kid was drunk?”
At the same time, Alexander found that he spends the night at home and don’t have any friends, and, apparently, stayed the night at the dacha of Leonid Brezhnev on the bedside table stood a mineral water, sealed tube, like champagne. Ordinary Soviet people that Borjomi is not seen. All the Protocol rules in the house of the head of state overnight stay of unauthorized persons is impossible. The story is fantastic — and yet… Pavlovich remembers that calmed down, when at the exit from the country by Galina called the car the police took back home before departing revelers under the visor.
Being the son of one of the classics of Soviet literature Paul Milina, Sasha grew up in a literary Peredelkino, where Pasternak lived, Fadeev, Simonov, Chukovsky, Kassil, and later Voznesensky, Yevtushenko, Okudzhava, Akhmadulina, Finn.
this village, named in the immortal novel “Master and Margarita” by Bulgakov Perelygina, and I used to visit P. and have heard the stories of different literary fates.
Despite the fact that Stalin said sternly writing to the curator of the Communist party of Polikarpov that “other writers of the no” (curator complained to the leader on the questionable moral character of the writers: wine, cards, women…), before the war in Peredelkino regularly run black Antiveleni cars. And then there was a rotation-transfer: in the liberated from the repressed writer the country entered its potential in every sense of the successors.
Family Ilinyh with the end of the thirties settled on the former dacha of Boris Pilnyak. Pavlovich recalled that at the neighbouring dacha Pasternak lived, but after his arrest, Pilnyak asked myself — out of superstition, perhaps, another country. The tragedy with Pinnacol, says Pavlovich (we were sitting in a bar with him the House of creativity of writers in Peredelkino), a man close to the authorities confirmed that from the sad fate no one is immune. Take Pilnyak came to the “Ehmke” security officer — good friend of the writer. And wife, Georgian to��ajna, did not even realize at first that husband taken to the Lubyanka. Not hence took Nikita Mikhalkov in “Tired with the sun” story, where a hero, a commander comes to the country like to visit the security officer (played by Oleg Menshikov is a friend of mine at the neighborhood football in the old moskvoreche)?
A dacha settled Evgeny Petrov, co-author of “the Twelve chairs” and “Golden calf”, who was killed later in the war. I asked Pavlovich, whether etched in his mind the image of the Creator of Ostap Bender. “Rather, he remembered me, — I heard in reply,’ my child brought at the time of the bombing in a shelter dug on the plot of Yevgeny Petrovich”.
He could leave without Pasternak’s Nobel prize
Not without surprise I learned that the area near the garden, where he grew up Sasha planted was once the “Lily of the wedge” that praised Akhmatova in the same poem. Have Pilnyak was having an affair with her before his marriage to the Princess — and she came to see him in a new country.
frankly, at that time I, a sports journalist would be more interested in giving the goalkeeper Yashin, than of the poet Pasternak. But agreed, of course, go with the P. house Museum. On the way I heard fifteen-year-old Sasha, learning to drive, almost ran over a future Nobel prize winner. My tour guide portrayed as Boris Leonidovich recoiled from the machine. It was easy to guess, and remember p. he had just come from. Even I heard that Pasternak was shot near Peredelkino, in the village of Izmalkovo, hut for his lover Olga Ivinskaya.
“You have time to slow down?” — I asked. “No, I turned the wheel,” explained Nilin. The mother, sitting nearby, screamed, but nothing happened. Boris Leonidovich Sesinyi parents perceived primarily as a country neighbour. But, says Pavlovich, and then they knew that a great poet.
Sasha was friends with the youngest son of the poet leney. She visited him almost daily, but with passing by and welcome kevasim boy Pasternak never dare to speak. “Yes, I still did not know truly of his poems,” — says Pavlovich.
Focus for Kio
I Saw Pavlovich and in some confusion from the first granted him a personal machine, put on the status of the first Deputy chief editor of the magazine “Soviet Union”. Pavlovich recalls how, returning from service on Gorky street in the black “Volga”, was watching myself as if from outside, anticipating the description of your item life, when the chiefs kicked.
Nilina took a huge office, converted from a library overlooking a branch of the Moscow art theatre, which gave the ongoing theatrics. Nilin recalls how in propriety the door looked to him Adjoubei. Son-in-law Alexei adzhubei, Khrushchev, incidentally, classmate Oleg Efremov in the School-Studio of MKHAT, after the fall of the father-in-law took the humblest position in the magazine “Soviet Union” from the editor Nicholas nm Gribachev, who at one time omnipotent Adjoubei gave Lenin prize (and herself, too, not bypassed). Nilin told me that a good imagination of the thought looking to him through the door of the former editor of “News”, “God, what has come to journalism.”
At the turn of the century Nilin recklessly rushed from successful writing on sports topics in a different genre, Kataev, I would say, direction, literature, did, in my opinion, not yielding them to appreciate the classics.
more recently, he appeared on YouTube in unusual for his age the format of the grandchildren, but then again, as a companion to the era (as told to his hero, commentator Sinyavsky, about his hero, goalkeeper Khomich), was “on the spot” — here, with his usual unrestrained self-irony.
Our common friend, the illusionist Igor Kio, who stayed two or three hours in marriage with Galina Brezhnev (Leonid Brezhnev showed Kio that is the real trick: the KGB agents took the newlywed’s passport and returned without a stamp about marriage), told me that he, who was involved in Konstantin Beskov in a football school, before the book Nilina “Impossible Beeskow” thought transference to paper of the character of this great coach an impossible task.
the Image of Beeskow have Nilina coincided with the view of it people of the sports world who knew of Konstantin Ivanovich to work much closer to the author. But, in my opinion, Alexander left a mark in football history no less than the famous athletes, I mean he created the best-selling star and the bitter fate of the great players Streltsov and Voronin.
once he told me that he went to St. Petersburg for the celebrations in honor of the 130th anniversary of Akhmatova, but just say, that there will be side pripek, rides in the role of accompanying his wife. Wife of Alexander Pavlovich, Natalia Ivanova, a famous literary critic, Professor of MSU, doctor of philological Sciences, one of the leaders of the literary journal Znamya.
my sports memory suggested that in the Northern capital he will survive the youth, which raced the night “Boom” together with Valery Voronin does not understand why winter in Leningrad, where in expectation of the promised feast to the Director of store set up on the street a friendly match a chip of brick with two famous football players who moved from Moscow to St. Petersburg.
But afterwards, I thought that the organizers of the celebrations would cost to engage and Alexander Pavlovich — get to remember about the time on the dead when they saw him in the legendary now the apartment of Akhmatova in other years and on a daily basis.
Recipe of�� Akhmatova
I Visited at the beginning of the new century, Alexander Pavlovich in the clinic at pirogovka and, as expected, asked about the health of the patient. Nilin conversation about health is not supported: “We are not medics.” And remembered better times, when sickness had to do.
Said as he sat on Ordynka at the table with the brothers Ardovini, and into the room majestically sauntered Anna Andreevna and asked: “And you, Sasha, to the University today is not coming?” (It was morning.) Sasha has not invented anything better, how to breccia that feels bad. Akhmatova kindly asked: “And you?” “I probably caught a cold…” Anna Andreyevna was advised to heat the battery a handkerchief and pressed it for a while to the nose. Bad thinking in the morning, because the evening and most of nights were difficult, asked: “And why does it help?” — “Sasha, I’m not a doctor, and a lyrical poet,” reminded the imaginary invalid Akhmatova.
the Relationship was such that Sasha somehow took Anna Andreyevna ten to continue the entertainment. Giving him the money, even without asking why he, Anna Andreevna delicately asked if he is in a hurry. Sasha said that now there is — and if he for some reason she at the moment needed… She handed him a fiver in a taxi and asked to take Nikolai Ivanovich Hardzhieva drawing Modigliani.
In the tenth year of the last century in Paris, Akhmatova met a very beautiful young Italian unknown poor artist Amedeo Modigliani. Evidence of the relations of these great women and men (ten years later, Akhmatova finds out that her Parisian friend — one of the most famous artists of the century, it was compared with Botticelli) will be sixteen drawings of Akhmatova, Modigliani made.
One of these drawings is the only survivor after a fire in the Tsar’s house in the Civil war always hung over the bed Anna Andreyevna, no matter where they live. Here is the pattern and we had to take our art to the outstanding Hardzhieva.
In the note, Nikolai Ivanovich, saved for history, she writes: “Modigliani lucky Alexander Nilin”.
Gergiev something measured, recorded, before asking the messenger whether he is in a hurry, and something for himself realizing, he sent the picture back Akhmatova. Later, he wrote the world famous essay — comment for this image Akhmatova. “So there is my contribution to the world culture”, — concluded the story of the journey with Modigliani in a taxi, Aleksandr Pavlovich.
“Joseph remembered that he — Brodsky”
Brodsky p. met is also on the dead — and says he never felt when dealing with him of arrogance, which Brodsky credited. Recalls how once at the table he told Akhmatova: ��View, Anna Andreyevna, how many at the table of beautiful people and all my friends.” — “I see that Joseph, too drunk” — with a share of astonishment summed up Anna Andreyevna.
the mood Brodsky is typical, there were sharp differences. Somehow, Nilin recalls, they had fun, from the deli to the Ardovs on Ordynka, and Joseph suddenly for no apparent reason sank. A close friend of Brodsky (Brodsky called him his teacher) the poet Yevgeny rein joked: “Joseph remembered that he — Brodsky”
the Clouds over Brodsky was thickening — it was necessary in that whatever was to detain him in Moscow. Peter was already waiting for him serious trouble. Viktor Ardov — known writer and humorist, whose apartment and everything was going according to his connections in the medical world gave Joseph in a psychiatric clinic.
Sasha Nilin, along with Misha Ardovs, later known priest and writer, visited there Brodsky. In one of his visits he brought the window glass with a piece of paper where either blue, or red pencil (Pavlovich forgotten) was written: “this is scary. Tell Ardova, may get me out of here”.
Brodsky was eager to Peter, where the woman left him for the poet Dmitry Bobyshev. On the massacre of the poet — the trial for “parasitism” and a link.
barbecue on the streets
In the apartment of the comedian Ardova Sasha Nilin, a young man who wasn’t, by his own admission, to find a place in such talented company — and we tried to joke. Sometimes, and probably successfully. Akhmatova once said to him one day: “Sasha, I am in Leningrad advertise your acuteness”.
In an interview with Solomon Volkov, Brodsky, referring to Horde gatherings, said: “these were boys from good families, as a rule, they were journalists who worked for great enterprises such as the APN. (As with Alexander Avdeenko Brodsky met not on Ordynka, and later, in Koktebel, and even wrote about it a humorous line: “Away, taut and nimble, was apainst with a crowbar,” then a stone was thrown into the garden Sasha Nilina. — PS)
It was the people well-dressed, beaten, grated, cynical and very funny, amazingly witty, in my opinion. More clever people I’ve ever met. Don’t think I’ve laughed more often than the Horde table. Again this is one of the happiest of my memories.
Often it seemed that wit and wit is for these people the only content of life. I do not think that they sank ever discouraged. But maybe I’m being unfair in this case. Anyway, Anna Andreyevna they adored”.
Not that I potamitissa for Pavlovich, just was surprised that none of our mutual acquaintances such as cynicism, for him not to notice… on the other hand, who am I to argue with genius��m… Himself Nilin reacted to the words about yourself Brodsky calmly said to see himself under the watchful eye of a stranger can be very useful, especially when looking at you great poet. Yes, and Brodsky admits he was not sure of the rating, hardly too such cynics they were in twenty-two years.
Our Pavlovich long-term relationships don’t even involve cooking gatherings — we, the old memory, like places where the spirit remains the same.
Like the barbecue, along with beer on the streets, then the streets of Bohdan Khmelnytsky, where in the last century, Alexander Nilin, who served at that time in the vicinity of the institution, in the newspaper “Soviet sport”, appeared in an unusual roles — kind, for another writer, extremely well-known then Vasily Aksenov. The company was the idol of the ring Victor Ageev.
the impression of the feast Vasily Aksyonov turned into the story “Symphony of ecstasy”, where a sports journalist, the prototype of which was their mother trying to make a boxer of the same aesthetic as himself, and this idea is more than possible.
However, a curious dialogue that took place in reality, in the published text was not included. The writer asked boxer: “How do you, Victor, with your skill down to a fight on the street?” Ageev said, “And you would, Bob, could cut a record?”
Nilina, however, it seemed that in the story, he is too respectable, prosperous, what never was, “And I became not that uncomfortable. Yet it is a pity that the author did not see me otherwise. Noted — thanks, but didn’t see.” However, over the years the story Nilina I began to like it more. Now I became clear that the author has no responsibilities to nature — quite the contrary.
Well, I have what obligation? I can only submit in time Alexander Pavlovich saving a Cup of water and convey acceptance, including from young men who once eagerly flipping through the table of contents of the magazine “Youth” in search of his last name.
