Khrushchev walked across the room, went to the blue picture Hulot and asks: "What's that?" "Lunar Landscape" - is responsible Hulot. "And you, that was there, asshole?" - Has become wildly yelling Khrushchev. But Hulot says: "I imagine so." "I will send you to the West, a formalist, no, no, I will send you, no, I will send you to camp!" - Went on the rampage Khrushchev. But Hulot says: "I was already there." Then Khrushchev said no, not send, and will be re. Hulot was very nervous and excited, he is worse say in Russian, instead of hissing pronounce the letter "s". A newspaper later wrote that artists beg and Meca, when we talked to Khrushchev, but in fact it is so Yulo said, but gazetypochemu hiding something that Hulot is not very well spoken in Russian. Recovery, who whom invited to participate in the exhibition, complicated but I think that the Komsomol invited Belyutin with B. Zhutovski, which then complete their education in his studio. Belutin and yelled at his company, iznichtozhit Sooster, Sobolev and Yankylevsky, calling all the pederasty, Khrushchev was going to continue the pogrom, as the room broke into Ernst Unknown and dragged him to his room to display sculpture. "Where copper stealing?" - Khrushchev asked. "Into the garbage collecting," - replied Eric. He steadfastly held, was not afraid to Khrushchev felt was right. Eric fought on the front, was wounded, had the Order of the Red Banner. He was the only one among them a member of the Artists Union. It was a battle, strong, powerful man.
Razdrakoniv all and yelled to the blue in the face, the leader, accompanied by hushed suite, which is still the night before so admired works, left, ordering the confiscation of the CE pattern and cause of all the square Nogina, the Party Central Committee.
Hulot most of all remember the beautiful young poetess Bella Akhmadulina, she edinvennaya not afraid to ask: "What will happen now with our husbands, brothers, friends, how will we live?" Deputy Minister of Culture, Kuznetsov said that the work will still give everything. In fact, the picture was returned after six months, and there was no work. If my parents we would not have helped and are not fed to Tenno, I do not know how to survive.
after the scandal
Gradually, slowly Hulot again began to receive orders. Often under the pseudonym-Smorodin. Yuri Sobolev, at that time was working in the publishing house "Knowledge". Artists wanted to prove to Khrushchev that they were not any rogues, and thinking, cutting-edge artists. They collectively decided to publish a book-magazine "Science and Humanity". The book was published by "Knowledge". I do not know whether she came to Khrushchev, but we still did not work. Hulot ran for publishers. That he managed to get a book published by the geographical literature, the publishing house "Kid", where the main artist was V. Statsinsky, who tenderly treated Hulot. Statsinsky is supported Hulot in this difficult time.
Soon after the exhibition at the Manege Tennochkoy we went to Tallinn. Tennochka immediately fell into the arms of her grandmother, and I expect artists, eager to hear the story of how Khrushchev berated Sooster. Hulot was, as they say now, a man of the year. I left the house early in the morning and came late at night. I went to Tallinn workshops and homes of artists.
In the first place I visited old friends - and Valdura Eetlu Ohakas, Henna and Esther Roode, Heldur Viyresa. Then it was the turn of the younger generation. First, of course, Tõnis Vint and his wife, Mare. Screw - the most refined of all the people I've seen artists. Mare - my beloved artist, clever and charming. They led a bohemian life - the day asleep, and in the evening their house was open to the artistic elite. The whole apartment was a black and white - couch, floor, table, pictures in black or white frames. Then I went to Malle Leis, they, along with her husband Villa showed me his new work. I told Yuri Arrak about the exhibition. I saw Leonard Lapin, Heinz Valk and Malla. They all respect and love Hulot and were concerned about his fate. On this trip I met a wonderful man Jaan Klysheiko. Jaan thought Hulot leader of new trends and a real philosopher. Sam Yan - photographer, he has an amazing photo archives, and I hope that someday he will in order and publish it.
After MANEZHA Hulot was silent, concealed from us to participate in exhibitions abroad. He tried not to disturb their loved ones, but we can still learn about everything - his friends blurted out, then asked a surprising question, as they show abroad? Hulot himself, too, might have forgotten on his desk a magazine or catalog with articles and reviews. In those days, he exhibited in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Italy and Spain. They wrote about it in European and American newspapers.
CAFE "artistic" and basement AT KRASIN
Meanwhile, the Yulo's dream come true. Hulot and Yuri Sobolev chosen cafe "artistic". They managed to convince the staff that the cafe is not the main plan, but the atmosphere is important, namely the desire to visit this place. The waitresses were treated to a café coming artists, poets kindly as his friends. In Moscow, formed a tiny island, looks like a small cozy cafes of Paris, Vienna, Tallinn and Tartu. It was possible to spend all day with a cup of coffee. Hulot enjoyed the ability to go there, meet with friends, designate a business meeting. You could talk to frequented cafes, a theater critic Sasha Asarkanom, who always sat in the corner and something to write or read. There could philosophize with Yesenin-Volpin political or poetic theme. And our apartment at the same time has become a haven for many people. Ira Uvarov wrote: "In those days we all long time and talked to each other, but did not to stuff more people than in the basement on the street Krasin". On Tuesday evening the entrance to our apartment was completely free. Most of our Tuesdays attended Y. Sobolev, R. Minna, E. Nutovich, V. Yankilevsky, L. Tokmakov with his wife Irina, V. Pivovarov, VI Uvarov, I. Kabakov, A. Bulatov, V. Voroshilov, brothers Alimov . All enjoyed our meetings and our modest tea. Once on one show we Hulot noticed a small painting with a locally bright colors, which strangely got along on this small canvas. We met with the author. It was Oleg Tselkov, while he had just designed the most fashionable Moscow show - "The sword of Damocles" in the Theater of Satire. Very modest, unassuming in food and clothing, he visited our Tuesday along with his wife, Tatiana, sometimes brought a half-liter. At such a mob of vodka was not enough, and then folded and ran over a bottle at Mayakovsky Square, to taxi drivers at the restaurant "Beijing".
Soon, we now have another remarkable man, Arkady Akimovich Steinberg, a graduate VKhUTEMAS. Arkady Akimovich freed from the camp and settled first in Tarusa. After moving to Moscow, he led the training of translators at the Central House of Writers. He was accompanied by modest sweet wife of a young artist and poet Mikhail Grobman. Ira then studied at the Lenin Pedagogical Institute in the Faculty of Russian language. Misha is rarely accompanied by his wife, Ira Vrubel-Golubkina. Sometimes our loved ones were whispering about the fruitless courtship Steinberg, and someone smiled slyly. Ira Vrubel-Golubkina was as pure as an angel, and Grobman confident in his wife. Ira and Anya Arcadia bound literary interests. They always sat next to him, and he refined gentleman, then poured the tea, then puts a piece of cake, and both smoked cigarettes incessantly. I am also very fond of Arcadia Anya. It was as if from another planet, with a good education, with manners. He predicted a bright future, but the arrest broke all these hopes. Sometimes it is a lot of interesting and telling, and it was not clear, it is true story or fiction. Sympathies to our house and our gatherings have found, perhaps, a special place in his heart. And not only me as a hostess, but also for paintings Hulot.
Together they made a book that is Hulot illustrated his poems, and we once again have been invited to visit him. Met us with his wife, Valentina G.. In her youth she was probably a dazzling beauty, but two arrests Arcadia, two boys, whom she brought up alone, a hard life left its mark, moreover, she smoked a lot, but still retained traces of its former beauty. The sons grew up and also became an artist. Boris Steinberg I do not know, but with Edicom Steinberg I am connected, as they say, bosom love. From the first visit I liked this little thug with gypsy eyes amateur orgies and women. We Hulot has long been considered his work, and long Edik reasoned with Hulot on high themes. He wore a fur white military coat, always open, accompanied by tall women, very beautiful, big-eyed, arrogant, who looked on all with a contemptuous mien face. Along with Arkady Edik became frequenter of our creative meetings.
One comes Edik quiet-quiet, neck cross, and beside it a tiny lapwing. Tonyusenkaya this, but it is clear that clever and cunning. Her name was Galochka Manevich. At that time the fashion she dubbed this disbelieving hooligan. Then they married and began to live in an apartment, furnished with mahogany furniture, a wall draped with icons. Edik became obedient, intelligent, but when it Galochka turn, immediately three sheets to get drunk, then asked for forgiveness, again began to work, he painted.
Every Tuesday, come to my favorite artist Alexander Kharitonov. Sasha has always sat in the corner, trying to be innumerable, and drew, painted, and then gave me the drawings. One of them, a boy with a flower, I am leaving for Israel, gave the museum in Tartu. Alexander Kharitonov was completely Russian, a Russian artist, he was some, I thought, Nesterovsky. He was kind, shy, always smiling. Once he came with a girl, not a Chinese woman, not a Filipina, and declared her his wife. Later she told me cry that Sasha something very nice, but how drunk, throws her on the street and all night in the house does not admits. Sasha, when I reproached him, grumbled, protested, and turned away.
They came to the young artists who are very respected Hulot: Belov, Klyachko, VA Duvidov, Yuri Krasny, Pozharskii, Boris and Sergei Alimov. Every Tuesday to us navedyvalsja Nutovich Zhenya, a photographer from the Tretyakov Gallery. He looked with loving eyes at Hulot, in his work. Eugene was an avid collector, and all wanted to get as much work.
He came Zhenya Bachurin. He was very vulnerable, always hurt, angry that he is considered more a singer than an artist. Now Zhenechka became generally known bard. He has a song dedicated to the memory of Hulot. Great ornament of our evenings were Velikanov Sasha and Kolya Epov. Theater artists, two handsome, conquerors of women's hearts. They soon attracted the attention of the entire female half of the audience. In those days I succeeded with great difficulty to get radiola "Latvia" and records of the Beatles. Lord, as we were then chased for this wonderful music for the long lohmy, like the Beatles, for pants and jackets. Hulot, too, grew his hair under the Beatles.
Late in the evening, after closing cafe "artistic" appeared theater critic Sasha Asarkan. Sasha was a man not without some oddities. The room in which he lived, there was literally nothing, some piles of newspapers, and in the middle, between them - the path that led to his humble bed. Winter and summer, he went to one and the same shirt in the winter it is complementary beretochka, but always sticking a cigarette between his teeth. In one of Tuesday, he showed up at our shaven, bathed in a warm jacket, wrapped in a mohair scarf, a cap on his head. His eyes sparkle and he smiles enigmatically. And here she comes, which proved to be my girlfriend salon Irochka Uvarova, and also all the lights.