Russian artists in the West
Posted 23-07-2012 at 11:44 by Вадим Алексеев
From Vienna we had to go to Israel, but settled in France. A rented an apartment in the Rue Saint-Maur, because in that folksy friendly neighborhood has stopped our friend the artist Edward Zelenin, who left the USSR for the year and a half before us. There, near the Place de la Bastille, in general a lot of the former Soviet selilos. Next to us lived Davidovich, Peter, the patriarch of the Georgian Jews kind. In Tbilisi, he was known tsehovikom also held obshchak clandestine textile cooperative - maintained the family business colleagues who were in prison. And he was expecting from day to day, it may also breed. Once them and warned them that may come. To escape for a long time everything was ready. Then Georgian wife, Antonina, which is not the fact that in French, but also in Russian through the stump-pack told us a neighbor told me: "Diamonds on special technology invested in eggs. Cooked boiled them ... The officer comes into the compartment, and Peter is sitting on an egg and spoon knocking, "Tuk-tuk-tuk! .." Many years later I learned that Peter Davidovich was one of the ancestor of today's Russian billionaires. That's how it is!
Paris emigre Vladimir, who escaped after the war with the Soviet ship, met my mother-in Lidia Fedorovna in the church. Word for word - and they decided to organize the production of pies. First, make a dozen - with meat, cabbage, sauerkraut, fresh ... smashed them on the Russian restaurant, which was a lot of time in Paris - and it went. I paid for the apartment once a year, except for me in Paris, not a living soul did not do so. How to get the money for the sold paintings, crying for the past six months - debt - and the next six months. The French went mad. So I do not have a penny, then a lot of money! .. We lived mainly due to the pelmeni Lidia Fedorovna, she did so notably. I drove them to the restaurant "Russian pavilion," the singer and actress Ludmilla Lopato and "Rasputin" ... I'll bring ravioli, and Elena Lavrentyevna Martini, owner of Cabaret "Rasputin", I will buy - and will hand a glass and a bottle of red wine open. And I'm happy.
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Paris emigre Vladimir, who escaped after the war with the Soviet ship, met my mother-in Lidia Fedorovna in the church. Word for word - and they decided to organize the production of pies. First, make a dozen - with meat, cabbage, sauerkraut, fresh ... smashed them on the Russian restaurant, which was a lot of time in Paris - and it went. I paid for the apartment once a year, except for me in Paris, not a living soul did not do so. How to get the money for the sold paintings, crying for the past six months - debt - and the next six months. The French went mad. So I do not have a penny, then a lot of money! .. We lived mainly due to the pelmeni Lidia Fedorovna, she did so notably. I drove them to the restaurant "Russian pavilion," the singer and actress Ludmilla Lopato and "Rasputin" ... I'll bring ravioli, and Elena Lavrentyevna Martini, owner of Cabaret "Rasputin", I will buy - and will hand a glass and a bottle of red wine open. And I'm happy.
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