Small greats
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Small greats
14.99 €
Igor Obolensky is a journalist, writer, television host, and the author of the documentary series "The Place of Genius."
"Each of the book's heroes has accomplished and continues to accomplish great things. Not with the goal of public recognition. Meeting them revealed the destinies and places of genius in a different way. For me, St. Petersburg is Moika Street and Building 12, where Pushkin lived and met his final resting place, along with its director, Galina Sedova. Yerevan is the Sergei Parajanov Museum and its creator, Zaven Sargsyan. Tarusa is the houses of Paustovsky and Tsvetayev and their caretakers, Galina Arbuzova and Elena Klimova. Kislovodsk is the mansions preserved thanks to Boris Rosenfeld. Peredelkino is the dacha of Andrei Voznesensky and Zoya Boguslavskaya. Tashkent is Malik Kayumov, who participated in the opening of Tamerlane's tomb. Moscow—the addresses of Bulgakov and his main biographer Marietta Chudakova, Mayakovsky and Alexander Ushakov, Svyatoslav Richter and his close friend Vera Prokhorova, the Messerer-Plisetsky apartment on Tverskaya Street, and the mansion designed by Shekhtel, where Gorky and his granddaughter Marfa Peshkova lived…” (Igor Obolensky).
"Each of the book's heroes has accomplished and continues to accomplish great things. Not with the goal of public recognition. Meeting them revealed the destinies and places of genius in a different way. For me, St. Petersburg is Moika Street and Building 12, where Pushkin lived and met his final resting place, along with its director, Galina Sedova. Yerevan is the Sergei Parajanov Museum and its creator, Zaven Sargsyan. Tarusa is the houses of Paustovsky and Tsvetayev and their caretakers, Galina Arbuzova and Elena Klimova. Kislovodsk is the mansions preserved thanks to Boris Rosenfeld. Peredelkino is the dacha of Andrei Voznesensky and Zoya Boguslavskaya. Tashkent is Malik Kayumov, who participated in the opening of Tamerlane's tomb. Moscow—the addresses of Bulgakov and his main biographer Marietta Chudakova, Mayakovsky and Alexander Ushakov, Svyatoslav Richter and his close friend Vera Prokhorova, the Messerer-Plisetsky apartment on Tverskaya Street, and the mansion designed by Shekhtel, where Gorky and his granddaughter Marfa Peshkova lived…” (Igor Obolensky).
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