the Meeting was held in an online format at the TASS news Agency in St. Petersburg.
“the Foundation of our great Saint-Petersburg – is a huge event. So I want to congratulate with a holiday that not only for the residents of our city, but also for all Russians – historical” – started this talk face to face Alexander Gorodnitsky.
And then said that he had done over the past months as productively working in forced isolation at home. I also read their poems – new and written in previous years.
– after Spending most of his life in travel, expeditions and tours, jumping in the ocean, in different parts of the globe, I found myself in such a long self-imprisonment. Only in the evening when I take a walk near our trash bin.
During those two months I wrote quite a few verses. Of course, I do not Pushkin, and I don’t have it…. But there was a loop that called a “Pandemic”. Will read “Quarantine”
That day I sit in quarantine,
the Weather is smiling in the window,
a housewarming party Where the birds nests in the spring.
looking at the pictures on the wall.
On the street I like,
But out of bounds in the air.
special Reasons to rejoice not,
When they open in the morning the Internet
Where the list of losses for the day grew.
do Not want, hope, spite,
to Sit, like other old men,
And wait, when you finish off the virus.
I Got ready to publish the book “Ocean of time”. Picked it up practically my whole life. I failed historian, always – since childhood, when I was in school at the Sink, – very fond of history, literature, feel like a scholar, but became Professor of Geophysics. I wrote about 600 poems and a few poems dedicated to national history. Leaving the book due in St. Petersburg. The Foreword at the time he wrote untimely death from the life of great historian and scholar Nathan Adelman, and an epilogue, no less remarkable historian and writer, known for St. Petersburg Yakov Gordin.
Prepare for publishing houses “Petropol” a new booklet of poems (which will be the cycle “Pandemic”). I am very interested in the public reaction to the last verses of the song. Early in the year he published the book “Between land and water.” Still prepared for printing small book “Road to Pushkin”, a poem about Alexander. Released CD of new songs “While the rings of string”, written in recent years.
– I continue to work at home. I have such happy profession, that I only need the computer. Scientific work you can do “on delete”. Wrote three articles. One has already been published in the scientific journal “Georisk”.
I Have feedback from the outside world. It is very important for an elderly person. I understand that you still need someone, interesting. I 87 I approach the age of my native and beloved city… blah Blah��Zoom odara participate in various conferences. For example, Pushkin was a webinar at the Museum of the Russian language.
Every week participate in the program Yevgeny Satanovsky “three to five” on radio station “Vesti FM”. An hour – from 15 to 16.00 – unable to communicate with the people. On Sundays at 19.00 meetings in ZOOM, live “While the rings of string. A conversation with Alexander Gorodnitsky”.
unfortunately, due to quarantine cancel my concerts in St. Petersburg. I am usually more in the evening at the Philharmonic. And to the day of Pushkin’s birth on the sixth of June. On the eve of the city Day is traditionally held my performances “at the steps of the Hermitage”, the figures of the Atlanteans. A holiday turns out! The people come. All sing – children and choirs. This holiday we didn’t cancel and decided to transfer.
my co-author Natalia Kasperovich we made another documentary “the String and the word.” It is in three series, each for an hour on the history of art song in Russia and in the world. It turned out, the film is difficult to produce on the screen than it is to do. Although work is at your own risk with his own money and donations of good people, friends. Want to see a movie became a large number of people. So now showing fragments of him at our meetings, on webinars, on ZOOM.
what else do I take part? There is a Fund of Alexander Gorodnitsky, created to support art songs and Russian poetry. But mostly we deal with children.
In may, was to end the international festival of children and youth creativity “Everything begins from childhood” (I have these verses). It involves hundreds of children from different corners of Russia and even from abroad – write poetry, scientific works dedicated to St. Petersburg, compose songs, perform with choirs, vocalists. There is a big creative work that children perceive with joy. We did not have time to sum up the results of the competitions, moved conditionally for the fall.
for many years I am the Chairman of the jury of the world’s largest festival of author’s song – Grushin. It takes place in the summer on the banks of the Volga in the Samara region, dedicated to the memory of Valery Grushin. This year the festival will have to cancel, but we now have via the Internet the selection of participants. I feel that the holiday was available to the people, let this year in online format.
– Another important case of our Fund – raising money for a monument to the “Unknown driver” (I have a poem that reads – “Unknown driver”). Install it in the Leningrad region on the territory of the Museum “Kobona: the Road of Life.” The people’s money.
Sign on all drivers of the Road of Life, who saved more than a million of Leningrad during the terrible siege. And me in April 1942, was carried by the Ladoga ice, together with other Leningrad children… We were going to open the monument to the Victory Day, ��about did not happen. Suffered on the eighth of September, the day of memory of victims of blockade of Leningrad. Still need to raise money for the installation. But sculptor Alexander Taratynov nobly refused the honorarium.
Alexander Gorodnitsky: This question is a mystery to me… Sent men and satellites into space. Cybernetics appeared. Created personal computers. As if everything is overpowered, and with bacteria to fight failed.
the great advances in medicine, and still we are powerless before the world Kovalam. Here’s what to look for and where to invest. And we’re talking about some kind of global warming…
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