Shortly before his death, invited Leonid Kheifets do play Krechinsky's Wedding at the Maly Theater. Hulot came and said: "I found a solution to the performance. Very original and contemporary, you might be interested. A huge chair for half the scene, the entire ramp, a chair, and all actors will peep out of this chair, as if through a keyhole" . Hulot was in a wild ecstasy of her zadumki. He still wanted to use the projection as to provide a picturesque spectacle of the performance. Commonwealth of the two artists - Leonid Heifetz and Hulot Sooster - based on an understanding of innovative ideas, but I cooled them down, saying that perhaps it could be done in any other theater in the Efros, for example, but not at the court Maly . Figures of the Maly Theater will never allow it to create. Hulot still went to the theater and even made some sketches, watching the actors, gazed at the boss, but it all ended so that he came and said: "No, it does not work, because the faces are not those names and not fit - Heifetz and Sooster. So ended this venture.
When Hulot died, the artist Boris Zhutovski came to Khrushchev, and said: "He died, whom you once reviled, Hulot Sooster." Khrushchev replied that he did not know then that he was told to go to the show and tell, he did so. Then very sorry. And for all Hulot was awful, until his last days he could not understand what was wanted of him, what is happening. He did not understand that art can do so, as you ordered.
He said that he was born free, but you have to live in a cage. All the time I was searching for ways how to get free, but in the last year before his death, he suddenly said: "And what does it matter in which the attic to work, just to work." Oh, how he suddenly became wrong! Tired of fighting? I forget how important it is to be free? Hulot almost never sick, almost never consulted a doctor, was a healthy man, with a very broad chest, strong. His father, uncle lived a very long time, but the mother Be'er sick and died not very old. Is she gave him her illness? But Hulot believed that he survivor. He always said that he would live a very, very long time, well, a hundred years before, but still need to hurry. Must have time to do much - paintings, graphic sheets, and a lot more to learn.
Kopilka SINYAVSKY
One day I was with his girlfriend Irina Uvarova conspired visit Sinyavskys. Sinyavskies returned from vacation, which they held in the North. Sinyavsky's wife, Maria Rozanova, gathered a collection of folk art, and this time they brought a lot of interesting things. There were sundresses, embroidered shirts, kokoshniki, decorated with pearls. We could not resist and, dressed in all this splendor, danced Boyarynya. Then came the master, Andrew Donatovich, we fuss and began going home. Before the front door on the wall, I saw a box, but in a box - the text: "Throw 10 kopecks, you will not be destroyed, but will help us build a new apartment. I was impressed. That evening I told the Hulot. "And here we are with you on this not guessed, when we had our Tuesdays, but there could be", - joked Hulot.
Hulot began work on a favorite book of his childhood - "Spring" Oskar Luts. He worked very long and meticulous. When he showed me the originals, which I initially did not quite understand. Hulot initially angry at me, and then began explaining to me. Hulot was a harbinger of a new vision for the future. It is her very much exaggerated, it was about, as the effect of "fish-eye" in photography. While in the Union because no one drew, it was extraordinarily fresh, unusual move for illustrating fiction. Then I thought it strange and unusual, even frightening. I thought Hulot, probably crazy, but now, over the past thirty years, this approach came in the visual arts and television.
Critic Yu Ya Gerchuk in the book "Soviet Book Graphics", published in 1986, wrote: "Yulo searching for new ways of illustrating science fiction. He read it not as youthful reading, as well as" quite serious, the most acute embodies a disturbing spirit of our age, literature. "Hulot was angry that his new ideas immediately used by other artists, appearing on the shelves of bookshops twins. He had time and again to seek new ways, although none of his epigones could not reach such a height, and reliable imaging.
I am desperate to say to him: "Well, what are you again lint on his next idea, looking, thinking. Look, there's an artist Lev Zbarsky considered the first book by the artist in the country, living in clover, is riding on a white Mercedes, but what about you? .
"He was lucky that the Soviet people almost did not know the work of Picasso. Zbarsky very cleverly uses it in his works, and I want my books to become the events as" Dandelion Wine "Bradbury", - answered Hulot.
At the time, Hulot and my father has a new exciting topic of conversation - the state of Israel. They were so happy victory of Israel in the Six Day War. One day, quite unexpectedly, Yulo asked me: "How do you Lidiilya (as he called me sometimes, when he was particularly tender; Lidiilya - our twin names, Lydia and Elijah, as he called himself in Russian), concerns to emigrate to Israel? ". I opened her eyes, thinking that misheard. No, he clearly asked my permission. He said that Misha Grobman already solved this problem. But while this is a great mystery. I do not remember how I reacted, I thought that everything that's somehow completely unrealistic, and Hulot with Misha dreams of a fairytale dream. I heard a lot about the Promised Land, of Jerusalem, of Jaffa. I read a lot about the outcome of the Jews from Egypt, the kings David and Solomon. I well remember the lamentations of his mother that some Yashka never gave my father no hours, no gold chains, which were transported with him to Israel, in the hope that his father will move there. Everything disappeared - and Yashka, and gold, and the dream of my father to live in Jerusalem. And now that Estonian Hulot dreams about this fabulous country. Yulo said nothing about the conspiracy Grobmanom and steadfastly kept them secret. Grobman left in 1972, after the death of Hulot.