Parisian boys in Stalin's Moscow
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Parisian boys in Stalin's Moscow
49.99 €
Sergey Belyakov is a historian and writer, author of the books "Gumilev son of Gumilev", "Mazepa's Shadow. Ukrainian Nation in the Age of Gogol", "Spring of Nations. Russians and Ukrainians between Bulgakov and Petliura", winner of the "Big Book" award, finalist of the "National Bestseller" and "Yasnaya Polyana" awards. Marina Tsvetaeva's son Georgy Efron, better known by his pet name "Moore," was born in the Czech Republic, grew up in France, but considered himself Russian. However, in prewar Moscow classmates, friends, girls saw him as a foreigner, a Parisian boy. "Parisian boy" was also Moore's friend, Dmitry Sezeman, who at the same time came to Moscow with his parents. The life of friends in the USSR seems to be a series of misfortunes: arrests and deaths of loved ones, homelessness, evacuation, hunger, the front, where one of them will be wounded, and the other will die.... But in their Moscow life there were also happy days. Stalin's Moscow was a shining showcase of the Soviet Union. On the new wide streets rushed "Lincoln", "Packard" and ZIS, in Eliseevsky sold delicacies: from black caviar and crabs to roquefort. Eisenstein staged "Valkyrie" at the Bolshoi Theater, in the Chamber was "Madame Bovary" - and Voroshilov himself enjoyed going to the performances of Tairov. For Muscovites played jazzmen Eddie Rosner, Alexander Tsfasman and Leonid Utesov, and dance teachers earned more than engineers and doctors ... It was a strange, cruel but bright world, where in the morning one went to the NKVD reception room with deliveries for arrested relatives, and in the evening one sat in the National restaurant or listened to Svyatoslav Richter in the Tchaikovsky Hall.
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