[Игорь Гурьев]

A wonderful man was Edward Steinberg .
This Russian European : soft, tolerant, benevolent .

Always respect the right to another opinion , even if it is radically at odds with his own.

His friend dissident Aleksandr Ginzburg told him ( with his wife, Arina , and, perhaps, she said, I do not remember ): " Eddie , you're a wonderful person , but the pictures you have somehow not really, they do not understand ."
Edward smiled and did not get angry .

Around the same way he treated , for example, and my articles about the arts in the newspaper " Russian idea" . In the direction they were like anti-modernist , but he liked how I wrote , and he always reminded me of this when they met , Well , they say , old man, you write . Come in, say, as something to me in the studio, like a drink .

I said, with pleasure, Eddie !
But it was postponed , postponed . And dootkladyvalsya .
Here we are with him and his wife Galina Manevich couple of years ago. More precisely, March 5, 2010 .