Sergei Alferov (1951-2004)

[Люси]

Currently shooting a documentary about S. Alferov, and that's quite mysterious thing happened to us on set. Before the new year, the film crew of 4 people and support group (Igor Dudinskiy, Gregory naught, and I) went into town Kozelsk, which is located 250 km from Moscow, not far from Optina. Visually, no one knew the location of the required house, we had only addressed - riverside Zhizdra House, a fact which has given us husband Sergei, Olga. Before the trip I have all urged not to go back, Kate Medvedev so generally disturbed soul apart from the fact that the road is long, the weather nightmare. I must say we went into a horrible broom b, but as something more or less normally reached in 3 hours and on arrival in the city went to seek you want us out. Before that, we went to a local shop to buy something to eat. The audience at the store was very colorful, people looked at us with curiosity, imagine a collapse in store this team ear, with loud indignation high prices for food, Grisha Nekhoroshev catches some interesting shots and then click cameras. The saleswoman was screaming to get out, they say the police are summoned, but the locals have decided that this was also their finest hour, and actively pose .. In general almost beaten we left the store .....
Kozelsk is very strange and it turns out it takes a few rivers, but we found it not at once. In order not to stray, we immediately sought help from local taxi drivers, who have sent us in an entirely different direction. And so the machine with a film crew gets stuck in a certain impasse. It starts with what a nightmare .. tractor can not be found, rope course we have not. While we all run to some strange vanity of an extinct, missed Kozelsk and voice that this futile. Grisha Nekhoroshev as an experienced reporter who decides to go for exploration, for it drags the frozen and completely miserable Igor Dudinskiy lamenting the fact that he was cold, that to go out there and so forth inappropriately. Grisha Nekhoroshev manages to delve into what is a labyrinth of sugrubov and beveled houses. And suddenly takes off some sort of a crazy little black dog bites, and Igor I. in the leg after it pops up the hostess. Grisha is not lost, and calls out to her that we are looking and asking whether neznayu hostess where the artist lived Alferov? hostess looks at us in surprise and says, my dear, Sergei because he died, and the street you are looking for is a 5 minute drive from here, you are his house will never find, I'll see you. If not this pernicious Sabaki we would have returned to Moscow empty-handed. It turned out that the lady of the house was once a bohemian fashion, friends with Talochkin and Pyatnitsky and told us many interesting stories. Then came what is broken with her and she hit the orthodoxy, deciding to leave Moscow closer to the monastery and Optinoj. Alferov many years to come stay with him in Kozelsk and he loved the local places .. he finally asked to find him a house not far from them. She gave us a great interview and conducted us to the desired house. I think that the film will interestny. I will lay at least some of his pieces here in this thread.