[Игорь Гурьев]

The kingdom of heaven Vitaly Kazimirovich ...

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The funeral service is expected on Wednesday at 11 am in Provins.

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Vitali Statsinskim I met was in 1985.
For me, then he was very old friend - yet he was older than me by 30 years.
Vitaly Kazimirovich looked very colorful: leather boots, some in the Russian style shirt with a rope, a cap that covered his bald head.

He looked pretty regularly after work (he worked in the Slavic Library, in Nanterre) in Russian Thought ", where I worked, and we inevitably went to a nearby cafe to drink a glass of beer.

Vitaly Kazimirovich not only looked picturesque - it was a very colorful personality, he loved strong folk mot.

Soon I was at his house in 20 districts, he was made to subjects of Russian folk art, a samovar, etc.

Now do not remember exactly, but perhaps he first time I heard Khvostenko (well, and saw). He has a whole evening to sing his songs.

Somewhere in late 1980 or early 1990 Vitaly Kazimirovich asked me to type on the typesetter one or two books which he illustrated and published.
One of them - Igor Holin, about the inhabitants of the barracks.

I went to him and later when he stopped coming to Paris, his friend Vladimir Pribylovsky.
When Vitaly Kazimirovich came to Moscow, they certainly Pribylovsky and repeatedly went to the bath.

After closing the "Russian Thought" in 2001 and I left out of our meetings have become much more rare.

The last time I saw him on Feb. 12 at the opening of the gallery of Peter the Great, in Paris, near the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral on Rue Daru.

He was strongly postaremshi, but do not give the impression that may leave this world later this year.

It was a kind soul and my dear people.