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Imagine, after the revolution (ie, revolution) "in the richest nationalized the estate of the Yusupov - Arkhangelskoye placed bet Trotsky (Leiba Davidovitch Bronstein) - one of the main destroyers of Russia," the leader of the Red Army and "permanent revolution". And he and his family lived in the palace.

That he has said: "Russia - is firewood, which we threw into the fire of world revolution," "At the funeral the ruins of Russia, we will become a force to which the whole world falls to his knees."
Impressive?

Artist Yuri Annenkov described his meeting with Trotsky in his memoirs "Diary of my meetings, starting with a meeting with him in his office in the Kremlin:

"We sat down. Trotsky said about art. But it is not about Russian artists. He spoke of the "Paris School" and the French painting in general. He mentioned the names of Matisse, Derain, Picasso, but gradually deepened into history. Especially interesting to me were quite quip Trotsky that the French Revolution has not affected the arts.

- Have a Davidovskaya "Murder of Marat," - said Trotsky - is there anything from the Revolution? Absolutely nothing. One anecdote: Marat naked in the bath. Is the famous "Liberty Leading the People" by Delacroix expresses the essence of the revolution? Of course not. A child with two pistols, a romantic in a cylinder, running over corpses, headed by the ancient beauty, baring his chest and bearing the tricolor? Romantic anecdote, despite the excellent scenic qualities. But in The Coronation of Napoleon "that same David has managed to brilliantly express the solemn nonsense of this rite ... Portrait, landscape, dead nature, interior, love, life, war, historical events, fun, sadness, tragedy, even madness (think "Crazy" Gericault) - all this found expression in painting. But the revolution and art - this unity is not found.

I objected to Trotsky that the revolution in art is above all a revolution of its forms of expression.

- You are right - said Trotsky - but this revolution is local, the revolution of art itself, and, moreover, very closed, inaccessible to the general public. I'm talking about the reflection of common human revolution in so-called "fine" art, which exists millennium. "Last Supper" - ie, "Crucifixion" - is, even - "Judgement Day" is, and even what: mikelandzhelovsky! A revolution? Revolution, I have not seen. Painting, writing now, Soviet artists seeking to "show" revolutionary poems, revolutionary pathos - beggars unworthy not only of the revolution, but the art itself ...

Trotsky told me that tomorrow he was going to his bid (in the Arkhangelsk), twenty miles outside Moscow, and the day after tomorrow will be there waiting for me to work. "