Mitka, a stop on a 25-year anniversary. The exhibition in St. Petersburg

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3 - Vassiliev

One artist had seen a similar place to sleep on the floor under the shelves of pictures.
Vital.
But everything else-as a vegetable, not as mischievous as the very title "Mitya."
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And yet

1, 2 - Semichev

3 - Shinkarev

4 - Vladimir Tikhomirov

5 - Ustyugov

6 - Viktor Tikhomirov


So far enough.
Will not clutter up the post

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3, 4, 5 - Vassiliev

He looked at her seamstress and another thought, too, Leningrad.

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I looked at her seamstress, and another thought, too, Leningrad.

Thank you, good job.

But that did not like Vasilyev?
Or jam TURNED?

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Well, not like Vasilyev?

Well, nothing like that.
The trouble all these artists is that they are teamed in these invented Shinkareva Mitka.
You should have them all just be Vasiliev, Petrov, Sidorov ... Many have benefited from this, I think. But James immediately with the word "Mitka" is this Shagin, but it is not gud.

[LCR]

I liked it a lot. This is because, first impression, I do not know the phenomenon Mitkov, no job, no related mythology.
Of all the cited artists I know the names Batynkov - and a picture hung Rein'om, I think a lot more fun than what he is doing now - Aref'eva and Shagin (one tram which I really liked).
I must say, they are very different. Yet I must say, when you look at the picture in this story - as if the history of art of the twentieth century, turn over the pages, but in a few homespun version (this is not a compliment).
But how does all this lovely what is shown at various trade fairs, and they sold the successful and less successful gallery owners.

What literature can be found on these Mitka? They intrigued me.

[Yurko]

That's decided to share an interesting article ... I've found by doing a query in Google: "how many pictures Mitki are" read seems very characteristic of creative position ..


 
 Weekly Case of St. Petersburg
Destiny 24.03.2003
 
 

Dmitry Shagin. Mitek - an artist of life
Elena Elagina

The exhibition of a portrait in the Russian Museum has been and the work that I have seized the KGB in the 87-th year. I have it ready for an exhibition at the Pompidou Center in Paris. The directory and it is written: "Received from the KGB."

We had a Pal Semyonitch physicist. He told us so: "You guys are artists, the physics you do not need, let me you better be playing the balalaika.

Dmitry Shagin - canonical Mitek Soviet Union and Russia at the St.Petersburg artistic success (and maybe not just art) project of the twentieth century. Glory "Mitkov" truly nationwide and, most importantly, is well deserved. And where else a modern little man is accepted, respected and treated kindly? Their paintings know their books they read, they sing songs, fraternize with them at every turn. "Mitka nobody wants to win, but win the whole world" - you are nothing like?

Mitin HOME
- To be born into a family of artists - a large living luck, or, conversely, the complex life circumstances?
- Good luck in everything: to be born in a family in this city. My parents - great artists: Vladimir Shagin and Natalia Zilina. And if not for his father lessons in painting, it is unlikely I'll ever started.

- Do you remember the beginning?
- According to stories, draw, I started almost simultaneously with how to walk and talk. I remember the first creative impulse: Dad wrote then streetcar - known, among other things, painting, reproduced many times - and the palette has been embossed red paint. And I began to paint this very picture of vozyukat and shouting: "Fire!" Fire! " Then Dad took my paint, but gave plasticine and fanerku. And I was out of this clay on fanerke started to do after watching the movie "Alexander Nevsky", these reliefs: battles, Battle on the Ice, Teutons. I was only about three years. First, so to speak, the sample in the art.

- Well, the main thing in life - stankovizm - when there was?

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- When I was a little over three years, there has been a turning point in my life: my father planted. For five years. They were then all put the whole arefevsky circle. That they are such well-known and have been recently published a sumptuous album, and then - the ideological dregs of society, almost no enemies. I do not really understand what happened, but I understood that I lost my father that we are now alone with his mother. On the one hand, I'm no one could deny draw, but on the other - was somehow not on itself, and sad. And my mother allowed me to draw on the contrary, she gave the paint. Mom always thought that I was a genius child, encouraged me in all artistic endeavors. I am the way, when a little older, many illustrated, and not something, as the Soviet classics: Zoshchenko, for example, Ilf and Petrov ... All this is still my mother kept.

Mitin UNIVERSITIES
- And then began the famous ÑÕØ (Art School - Ed.) At the Academy of Fine Arts?
- Duc Elah-burns! There is something to remember! Most of all I liked the fact that it has retained the old desks with holes for inkwells and with the old caps, which were carved with all sorts of autographs: and Arefieva, and my Batey. I'm studying there, as it took the baton, continuing the tradition of Aref'eva. And, of course, understood that the present, most of the Academy I do not shine. Dad left me a lot of very interesting reproductions: the Impressionists, Van Gogh, Cezanne, etc., which, of course, completely ruined, according to teachers, my taste. What can I say - I liked it a painting. In those days, just opened the third floor of the Hermitage, where we're constantly running out of ÑÕØ. And if teachers and drove to the Hermitage, the rigorous academic halls. Besides, I really did not like the composition of classes: subjects were specific - so farmers steelworkers. Landmarks too, you know what: kondovy Socialist Realism in full.

- And how much went on this art barracks?
- At the Academy I attended four years. The atmosphere there was very lively, cheerful, there were many different jokes. Frankly, almost all the teachers were quite Mitkovskaya.

- Something cropped up later in Mitkovskaya attributes?
- And how! There was Pal Semyonitch physicist. He told us so: "You guys are artists, the physics you do not need, let me you better be playing the balalaika.

- It is now clear where it came from Mitkovskaya balalaika!
- Yes, all of life! She nobody better to figure out life - best artist!

- A Mitek - an artist of life?
- Well, not without it. But the foundation of a whole in it. Here's another case of the school year. In those years, if you remember, was the war in Vietnam, and on this subject one day decided to hold an open meeting of the Komsomol. And I've never been a Young Communist, though was a pioneer. As pioneers, I came back in its first, ie the 194-th school, Mayakovsky Street. But bosses at the school were traffic cops. And why would not believe, at the entrance to the school on the stairs was a large traffic light. When students walked to school on time, burn a green light when we started late, turned on the yellow and malignant Late rising is already under red. But that's not all: along with the included red and a police siren! Under the traffic lights were children in the form of retainers with armbands, carried out a search. Everything was amazing! As pioneers took, of course, the club Dzerzhinsky. I then had a round-student. And ÑÕØ already, of course, blabbed, although he studied well, too. Bad grades received for painting and for the song, because teachers felt that I had too much of impressionism. Teachers were almost the same as that of the group Arefieva, and of course, they saw that the story somehow with the following Shagin repeated.

- In my opinion, we digress: it was about a Komsomol meeting.
- Yes, I mean, and leading. That's because, in passing, that people remember how it really was, and many already have forgotten. So, open a Komsomol meeting against the Vietnam War. Discovery is that closed all the entrances and exits, and my friend and Shurik Gudzenko (incidentally, the artist's son Rodion Gudzenko Aref'eva of the company, too, by the way, nekomsomoltsem) decided together to escape from the ideological oppression and jumped from the second floor. I, of course, broke his leg. After some time, came on crutches with a broken leg, and my whole school wore on his hands with the anti-war slogans: that the veteran injured in Vietnam. About how the movie "The Diamond Arm" when Nikulin not with his hand bandaged, and on foot. I have worn on the hands and sang anti-war song.

- Why could not continue his art education? Base-it was about-ho-ho!
-. Yes, all because of gay Mitki character. ÑÕØ finish the distance, but the written description in the genre of wolf tickets. And, of course, the Mukha, where I went to do, seeing this form, came into the full horror, and I was not accepted. But I did not lose heart. Went and got a job in the boiler room. And he made a career fireman.

- Who do you think your main teachers, but my father? By my count, there should be no less than three.
- Four. With my father I was very lucky: he had not checked the estimates and do not beat with a belt, and taught the profession. The father showed me a lot of things, something that no teacher in any ÑÕØ and not approached. There are formally stuffed arm that, crudely speaking, it seems. This is something I learn from them. By the way, when did the Fly, I and a drawing, and painting were five. But the deuce set for composition. And I'm still at the very Aref'eva studied, very friend with him. Came to him, he put me to still lifes.

- I think we should still remember one teacher - the great St. Petersburg photographer Boris Smelov. Especially since he also became a member of your family.
- Yes, of course. At some point, my mom married Boria, but I first became acquainted with him. We climbed together with Boris on the roofs and photographed. The level of uniqueness, I do not know with whom you can compare Boria: Well, with Cartier Bresson, well, with Josef Sudek. And Boris is still undervalued! Well, while the fourth teacher - is also arefevets, artist Richard Vasmi. I was friends with him. He usually hung on the walls of one or two of work. Asks: "Where are the rest?" - "I hid them for the cabinet to make it seem that nothing is done." So that the teachers I've had top-notch! And while it was good.

Mitin BOILER
- And how could escape service in the valiant armed forces?
- Here's how: First, the institute did not take, and then in the army. Doctors have found some kind of disease and given a white ticket. And the boiler room, pay attention - the gas, I gave Richard Vasmi, while he worked in the boiler room. At first I was a couple of years worked at an angle. Work on gas was considered a more skilled, though I liked it at an angle. You know, like to show how Choi throwing coal into the furnace. And for me it was a good job: promptly inserted embers - one can go drink some tea. And in general I really liked the daily work - worked day and three at home. You can deal with their affairs. In the boiler so I liked that I worked there 15 years, to 89 th year.

- And which one was your favorite?
- Richard Vasmi gave me an excellent boiler shipyard in Petrovsky Island, just outside the stadium and Lenin. There are repairing all the shipping detail: barges, buksirchiki. I worked side by side with former sailors, who have written off for drunkenness with the big ships: colorful characters personality, everyone has their own destiny and his life story. They are there and lived in these little boats, many of drunk drowning. I was there was a real sailor. In vest walked. They were all sailors. Sailors underground. Later I got a job in a fashionable boiler room - it was the peak of my career. The Olympic Games wrestling complex was built on Stone Island, where, like, even Putin trained.

- There is a very accurate expression - a "generation of janitors and watchmen." But what is most curious impression is that all the guards Leningrad, janitors and firemen, the intellectuals know each other!
- And what else? Get at least boilers "Teploenergo-3, where I also worked. There are poets, painters and all the other toffs just on the head from each other sat! There's a row at the Admiralty alley located for four boilers, and good people everywhere, so we're constantly to each other's homes went. Replacement I was a poet, Yuri Kolker, in the next boiler worked poets Lena Pudovkin and Oleg Okhapkin. We had a master Slava Dolinin, now human rights activist who worked there Kostya Bobyshev, brother of the poet Dima Monakhov, a friend of Joseph Brodsky. It was refined society superkotelnye. But the work schedule was from 8 pm to 8 am, ie, not daily, which, naturally, we do not feel like it. So by and large I got a job through connections to the boiler room high school sports. And there was a plot - day seven. It was hard. For me there and Oleg Okhapkin come, ie, has its own style company is organized. And just this thug boiler began "Mitka".

- And only just begun "Mitka" boiler over?
- Then how come. The first article about "Mitka" was published in the journal "Youth" in the 88th year. Described was exactly the thieves boiler room, where to visit me went Florensky. We just sat and drank tea. And in the article cynically stated that "Mitka" in the days when the TV show "The venue can not be changed" or "The adjutant of his excellency, in the boiler suit conventions, going on fifty or sixty people around the sea port, etc. .

- This corresponded to reality?
- How could this match? There's little room for six to eight feet, no more! Fifty to sixty people in it - it's hard. Party meeting did not come at once - I pulled down on it, and eventually expelled. For that I am in the boiler room allegedly arranged congresses Mitkov. It turns out that, on the one hand, journalists have praised, but on the other - my kochegarskuyu career ruined.

- Sorry for your career?
- How to say. Everything must be seething, alteration full swing. I well remember how literally 31 December 1986 Colonel Korshunov, now Koshelev, said: "Guys, you're given a pavilion № 1 in the harbor - makes the exhibition." It was January 87 th, on the street frost below 30 degrees, unheated rooms. The first uncensored show, not a single picture was shot - had somehow always ended with all the scandal. And in the 89 th we were invited to star in a movie called "Mitki in Europe, a joint Soviet-German film about a trip to Europe Mitkov bus. In Europe we have passed through three large exhibitions, and experience what they saw, we drew directly on the walls of the bus you rode. And then we realized: everything! Freedom! Let us abroad, but still starring. A new story. And then the boiler ran out. Forever.

Mitino Mitkov "
- And how did "Mitka" Group? Someone who was familiar with at first?
- Grouped as follows. Politburo with us, you know: Florensky Shinkarev and me. With us and gone. In the 76-m Florensky came as something on the private exhibition of the artist Mikhail Ivanov. We met and immediately started to make friends. And with Shinkareva, which, in fact, coined "Mitkov, I met a 77-year on the birthday of Oleg Okhapkin. Shinkarev then wrote a wonderful book, "Maxim and Fyodor," which we are all very fond of. This version of the St. Petersburg Moscow-End of the Line. " Actually, this fraternization with Shinkareva "Mitka" and originated.

- But after all was the same given time pronouncing the word "Mitek"?
- The situation was absolutely Mitkovskaya: 83rd year, the third exhibition TEII (Association of Experimental Fine Arts), our first joint bat, white nights, the bay, "Radio Africa" Grebenshchikova ... We burn bonfires, sing songs, recite poems, almost bro, thought out together canonical Mitkovskaya treatment "bratushka-sister", and then Shinkarev says: "I want to write all these funny little words, all our expressions." We all then endlessly quoted "Meeting Place" and all that loved him. A Shinkarev decided to write this entire book. And the word "Mitka" was coined in the 84 th year.

- Here is necessary to stop and explain everything: where "Mitka" with a capital letter, and where a small, but even the editors do not always know who is where.
- Yes, everything is very simple. For Mitki this principle - that all was clear to all. Actually, Shinkarev described the company of artists, their friends, and jokingly offered to organize a youth movement and call it like hippies or punks, Mitka. In honor of the classic design - Dmitry Shagin. Watch: Dimitri - Mitya - Mitek, and therefore all - Mitka. And he's really tapped on a typewriter in the book number four copies. Sasha Florensky made illustrations, and it sold in large numbers in samizdat. The first publication of books took place in the newspaper "Russian idea" in Paris in the 85-meter - as you see, long before the "Youth". Generally, Shinkarev, albeit a very talented writer and really funny it all written, I do not expect any real Mitka, not only as a group of artists, but as a worldview, a way of life. He somehow thought it was just another of his book. And it turned out that the book became a manifesto of a new movement. And a group of artists, because we had a close-knit company had no choice as to arrogate to itself the name "Mitka" and considered as one student likes to speak of my father that all the "Mitkov" daddy one - Vladimir Shagin. And here, "Mitka" with a capital letter because it is the name of a group of artists. And if you just coreligionist - that Mitek.

Mitin LOVE
- Everyone knows that Mitya Shagin three daughters by one wife. In our time, fantastic consistency!
- Normal. Tatiana with her, I met back in the 79-year, when he worked in the boiler room, and we have literally a year later was born the eldest daughter, Anne. And then - Lisa and Beyonce, Anastasia. Anya in my footsteps went: ÑÕØ finished, you can tell, the third generation Shagin. Imagine, during perestroika in the advertisement of this school so brazenly sounded: "Let your children to us! We studied Dmitry Shagin! But it passed, then all the old: Anya's work were taken to a fund that did not stop safely put her to deuce. Liza Stas luckier: they have studied in private Orthodox school. There's another situation - the university teachers. Lisa is now studying at the University at the Department of Art History, and Beyonce has been a regular school and parallel to the ends of the musical flute. Clearly, all the paint.

- So, the children all draw. A wife?
- Well, not without it. True, Tatiana, when we met, worked as a guard at a military factory. Again, absolutely Mitkovskaya situation: imagine, in the tower, with a gun, everything is real. And then she has long worked as a cleaner at the Museum of the Mining Institute, until it was reduced. In fact, she studied at the University ITMO, but did not finish my studies: painting her as a once and stopped. Well, when children went to her, of course, had to do more housework.

- A live-now what? I understand that no one has a permanent job there.
- Since we live. Somehow interrupted. Sometimes the paintings are sold.

- And the daughter would like the fate of the artist?
- Firstly, not necessarily all be artists. Draw they draw. But in general I think that's great for a girl to marry, so the family was that the children went.

"Mitkov - LIVE CLASSICS
- Well then what happened and is happening with Mitkovskaya weight? She is mobile: someone joins the movement, someone drops out ...
- The peak of our popularity, the loudest show - the 90 th year in Moscow, at the Youth Palace. Was a great concert: "Time Machine", Andrei Makarevich, the group "Aquarium". Was a huge exhibition, a landmark. In the 91-m we with the exhibition "Mitkov" traveled almost the entire country. And then times have changed - and all podzaglohlo. Anniversary Exhibition - to 10-anniversary of the group - took place in the 93-th year. Incidentally, the Russian Museum was doing. And then each do something to their: Florenskie, Sasha and Olga, carried away with conceptual art, objects, Victor Tikhomirov began working in movies, pretty much made the film; Shinkareva have left a number of books. But "Mitka" still alive and well. Now we have the cities and villages moves show "Archetypes" - involving 16 artists. And in Moscow, there are a few artists' Mitkov. Youth joins - see that on Saturdays here at headquarters, done! The team we now have somewhere around twenty people.

- At 300 years of city planning to organize all-Russian congress Mitki?
- What it is all in one pile, then the blame? Here's to the 20 th anniversary of "Mitkov" quite possible.

And if you remember the whole 90-s, then we have released many CDs with songs, and it is, you know, the most popular art form. Project Mitkovskaya songs - even millions of readers. All out of print.

- So you're already millionaires!
- In the West we would be millionaires. But since the Russian show business is working only for themselves, then the artists do not get paid. Pirates of the way, from a distance all. This, and our movement to defy statistics and are not controlled. All our published pirated films made for television, all music. Computer versions, all solid. And no we do not pay. To what has come - produce cheese "Mitek"!

- Really? Perhaps, after all, "Mitya?
- No, it's ice cream - "Mitya," and cheese "Mitek". Many are cashing in on behalf of Mitkov, "and we do nothing we get. We probably because so well together and live by themselves, and that there is nothing to divide. Many people are surprised and say: "Why did you ride the subway instead of" Mercedes "?"

- What about success in life? By Western standards, it certainly is associated with money.
- I do not think that an artist should treasure. He must be just dying of hunger. And so many of us know, ask for autographs. I'm sure will be some time, a hundred years, say, and the painting "Mitkov" will be very costly, as it is now expensive Van Gogh, who sold during the life seems to be a single picture. Incidentally, when the Russian Museum was an exhibition of portraits on display there and my job was that I had confiscated the KGB in the 87-th year. I have it ready for an exhibition at the Pompidou Center in Paris. The directory and it is written: "Received from the KGB." That's funny.

- Mitkovskaya pathological optimism and goodwill - is that: part of an image or an immanent property of nature? As in such a difficult, obviously hostile to man the city came your joyful company with a bright, kind, and at the same time slyly-game start? Some people believe that you - oberiutov followers, and in my view this effort as a Soviet Buddhism absolutely fantastic batch!
- You are right in the city difficult. When I come to Moscow, I feel, oddly, more relevant. And I do it somehow easier. Atmosphere that is, the other, I do not know. We have hard to live. But I was helped by the fact that a lot of friends, a wife and children - are all here. One I could not. "Mitka" why have rallied to his friendly staff to survive in such conditions. As for the optimism and goodwill, because each in his own fellow. And the vagabond life is good. He is something of this had reached that inaccessible to us. Maybe he just did not realize that his life had failed, and we guessed. And for him too.

- Are you a religious person?
- Yes, I believe. And even seen a miracle. In Jerusalem, at Easter, when it comes down Holy Fire. He has a wonderful origin and descends from the dome, such splashes. You might think that this flash from the camera. But before he goes, changing composition of the air - he seems to be ozonized. It is a miracle. And I saw it myself.

It is believed that the signs of doomsday three. First - no longer go to the Holy Fire, the second - Mavriysky withered oak, oak is the Holy Trinity. And should Iver icon from Mount Athos to go into the water. While everything seems in place. True, the oak has dries up. Let's see what would happen next.

- And that for the canonical Mitka happiness?
- Many now believe that happiness in money. If you read the Bible, then there worshiped the golden calf, but after all and then everything changed. No, for me, happiness is not income, happiness for me - it's someone to help, advise. Happiness - to write a good picture. Please friends, loved ones, just people. Everything depends on us from ourselves, and not from his superiors. If everyone will worship the golden calf, all Russian end. And while not all worship - until the end.

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Сообщение от Cyril Syzransky

trouble with all these artists is that they are teamed in these invented Shinkareva Mitka.
You should have them all just be Vasiliev, Petrov, Sidorov ... Many have benefited from this, I think. And once the word "Mitka" is this Shagin, but it is not gud.

You know, Cyril, is debatable. Well, that is, by and large you are probably right. And even then, it is not clear. It would be easier to break one by one the Impressionists, do you think? And by the way, they, too, lacked a very ordinary. quite a mediocre artist. Just a story, as always, clever old lady, their not very maintained. But even some feeble works now will cost money, just because it's the Impressionists. And that, some of them have lost their individuality? No, you know, this kind of associations are very helpful at the initial stage of the creative ways. And then everything happens just as always happens - that's Mitka quarreled because large individual was closely within a group with all the ...

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[QUOTE="LCR; 1367621]Shagin (one tram which I really liked).[/QUOTE]

Only we do not confuse Shagin, Sr. (author of the tram, Vladimir Shagin (1932-1999)) and junior-Mitka.

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It would be easier to break one by one the Impressionists, do you think?

Impressionists called themselves "Impressionists"?
Gave their exhibitions this name?
Wrote the story of his "movement" in life?

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And then it happens that way, as always happens - that's Mitka quarreled because large individual was closely within a group with all the ...

Here's a look at the way Shinkareva and DA Shagin.
I am sure is the first blows up, and the second will be so ekstluatirovat mask kotortsyu him, by the way, second, and came up with. And he will espluatirovat this role Mitka not at shows, and in the offices of government officials. Artist out there, it seems to me, I will be glad to make a mistake, he died long ago. No?

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Сообщение от LCR

I liked it a lot. This is because, first impression, I do not know the phenomenon Mitkov, no job, no related mythology.
Of all the cited artists I know the names Batynkov - and a picture hung Rein'om, I think a lot more fun than what he is doing now - Aref'eva and Shagin (one tram which I really liked).
I must say, they are very different. Yet I must say, when you look at the picture in this story - as if the history of art of the twentieth century, turn over the pages, but in a few homespun version (this is not a compliment).
But how does all this lovely what is shown at various trade fairs, and they sold the successful and less successful gallery owners.

What literature can be found on these Mitka? They intrigued me.

Thank you, dear LCR, for your feedback. Honestly, your question made me into a blind alley: alas, a few or less oboschayuschey work yet. That's what I would recommend:
Love Gurevich Artists Leningrad underground. Biographical Dictionary. SPb.: Art, St. Petersburg, 2007. The book is arranged on the dictionary principle, that is personal articles alphabetically, but the text is less a dictionary of art history and short articles describing each of the artists, and not written by a detached and very personal. You know, quite an unusual genre, but very good.
In addition there are well-published solo albums have Shinkareva (St. Petersburg: OOO P.R.P., 2006) and Yashka (St. Petersburg: OOO P.R.P., 2008) in a series of Avangard na Neve " (ibid. out great album Arefevsky Circle "in 2002). Now in this series prepares album Florensky

And perhaps it makes sense to read Shinkareva (Maxim and Fyodor, Mitka, Popuas from Honduras). It is published by itself (Shinkarev VN Mitka. - St.: The new Helicon, 1996) and in the collections (there were such books: Mitka. Selected - Moscow: Canon, 1999: Pro zaek - M.: Vagrius, 2000: Mitka - St.: Amphora, 2008)

Well, that's Yurko on the Internet found something. There are, of course, too, have all sorts of articles, but something separate, I would not come from - not very many of them read