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There is no doubt that the conduct of the reconstruction of the building is a historical monument, requires not only consultation but also the direct supervision of restorers, architects, art historians. This is understandable to man, but not official, who give kickbacks.
To awaken the conscience of a villain, we should give him a slap, said Aristotle.
Such a slap in the face Throwing aside all restraint officials may be a wide public resonance.


There was a rally-concert "Walk for the preservation of St. Petersburg"

In St. Petersburg, near the Palace of Sports "Jubilee" on Saturday held a rally-concert "Walk for the preservation of St. Petersburg, Ekho Moskvy. Participants of the action authorized by the city authorities were opposed to the construction in the downtown skyscraper "Ohta-Center". The organizers expect that the meeting will bring together up to two thousand people, but, as reported Kasparov.Ru with reference to the leader Petersburg OGF Olga Kurnosova, the square near the Jubilee came three thousand protesters.

The action was attended by activists of the FMG, the Solidarity movement and the liberal Yabloko party, representatives of other public organizations, as well as musicians Vadim Kurylev, Michael Borzykin and Sergei Parashchuk. The rally was filled with the song "City, wake up and resist, especially written by them to protect the architectural heritage of St. Petersburg.

The main slogans of the rally were: "Protect the living heart of St. Petersburg", "Stop the Gazprom-City", "defended Leningrad - defense of St. Petersburg.

"The march in defense of Petersburg" is held for the third time. Last year, officials are not allowed to hold processions. This time the event managed to agree, but the City Council to ban the march, and organizers decided to hold a rally.

According to organizers, the legal status of the activities allowed without fear to attend many of St Petersburg. In addition, earlier in the week was made public a letter with a call to come to the march, signed by the artist Oleg Basilashvili, writer Andrei Bitov, musicians, Boris Grebenshchikov and Yuri Shevchuk.

At the same time until the last moment was not known whether to take part in the meeting the representatives of NBP. Before they had a loud rally outside the office building of Gazprom in St. Petersburg. Blocked the main entrance, they were burned in front of him polutorametrovy layout "Ohta-Center. But organizers of the rally have voted against their participation in the general meeting. In particular, the leader of the city branch of Yabloko Maxim Reznik previously suggested that "limonovtsy" at the rally did not come, because they "are not interested in preserving the historical heritage of St. Petersburg, and in self-praise." According Kasparov.Ru with reference to the St. Petersburg National Bolshevik leader Andrei Dmitriev, NBP took part in the action in a personal capacity.
 
10.10.2009 13:30
http://grani.ru/Politics/Russia/activism/m.160464.html

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Book Igor Shevelev «Moscow Heritage: point of no return. 2004-2007. M. 2007, 128 pages

It - an album dedicated to the hundreds of losses suffered by the architecture of Moscow just a few years. Talk about "Moscow, where there is no" gave way to rigorous and substantive document. Prepared by its recently created "The Moscow Architecture Preservation Society» (MAPS), which is part of the international association for the salvation of European heritage. There have already prepared a report on the situation in Hungary and France, lifted by a court building highway through the Veneto in Italy. But work in Moscow say the most important and most ambitious project of his, precisely because, besides them, no one seems today there is no capability to counter Moscow's power structures.

At the presentation of the book, some of the initiators of the book, even justified, why, they say, they are, "the British results agree in the Moscow case." Because and the results agree "that they feel part of Moscow is not only European but also of human civilization. Citing the way, the example of those cases when even Russian scientists rescued the cultural heritage, such as Golenishchev-Kutuzov, whose Egyptian collection can be seen today in our museums.

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Indeed, it seems that Russia today, as its capital, were outside of history. That is why the story does not interest us. Including own history, instead creates a glossy and fake replica. In this sense, architecture is a visible diagnosis of society.

Of course, unambiguously assess the changes taking place in Moscow is impossible. Consider that after the cast-iron Soviet regime of the capitalist era "hapka" may be perceived as a gay freemen. Yes, destroyed the Hotel Moskva and Voentorg, in ruins "Ginzburg house" (house-commune People's Commissariat), but appeared to live has become better, life has become merrier, restored Iver, Cathedral of Christ the Savior. The slogan of the Moscow authorities: "We erected the old days better than the previous" - needs as a Zen koan, a long reflection, as from a blow on the head with a shovel. Fire MANEZHA and instant detuning replica - is in doubt: but I do not own it and set it alight?

The book is assessed a serious condition such monuments as a world-class baroque church of St. Clement Pyatnitskaya on the street, the authorship is attributed Rastrelli. Killed many wooden houses of the capital. The potential of destroying the center of design «Artplay», which converts the factory premises was "Red Roses": sverhdorogaya price of land in the center of cultural objects rule, not included in the direct interests of the ruling nomenklatura. The heavy losses applied architectural silhouettes of Moscow. "Proprietary" Moscow hodgepodge of styles replaced "glossy falshakom" nouveau riche in power.

Authors of the articles of the book is far from blind carping. They only want to separate the conflicting achievements, established to this day from the dark spots of bad taste and ruin. New skyscrapers, like the "Swissotel" or planned in Moscow City, is already distorting view of the Kremlin so far is a World Heritage Site. Entangled town planning legislation in Moscow is a consequence and a cause of too obvious impact of corruption on the urban form.

All accounted Luzhkov hurricane. Off "The Family" Moscow mansions, remaining, in fact, only where there were transferred to the embassy. Lamentable fate of the palace Razumovsky Kazakova street, where the luxurious interiors of the athletes staged a sauna, and then burned the palace, dismantled it, brought to ruin. On the other hand, the manor Muravyovs-Apostles in the Old Basman, turned into a museum of Decembrists - an example of careful restoration before the fire of wooden architecture. And about making Tsaritsyn garden and park ensemble in novodelny Luzhkov Hermitage - remains the only impotence shrug. That really would be a monument to our time!

The book is a real picture book of old Moscow architecture. Some data about the successful restoration of investor homes Polivanova and Svistunov in cash and Gagarinsky alleys, around which at one time was raised by the noise of movement activists "Moscow, which is not" turned out to be worthless. Are given in the "divine form" many churches, sent the ROC. Here you can call the church at Schepah Nicholas, Church of Dimitri of Thessalonica on Blagushe. The next step - who would have believed, - St. Basil's Cathedral on Red Square. The restored facade is a sad state of interiors in need of restoration, but my money ran out.

Listed Chamber XYII century, waiting in ruins, perhaps the final of his death: from the chambers of Prince Pozharsky on Bolshaya Lubyanka and Dr. Lado in Krivokolennyi Kazakova street to Chambers Street and Zabelina Kireevskoe Ostozhenka. Immediately specified destroyed in recent years such monuments as the university press in Strastnoy Boulevard, House painter Pikart at the Sofia Embankment.

Moscow could be one of the capitals of European modern turn of the twentieth century, a monument of the early Soviet Constructivism, which stood at the vanguard of the world, but it does keep the building in reasonable condition, but not dismantle, as happened with unique designs Shukhov, or result in ruinirovannoe state for subsequent demolition and modern replica, as the former house-commune People's Commissariat. You can enter the factory and industrial buildings in the modern urban traffic, as was done with the factory "Red textile" at the drainage canals, turned into a business center "Golutvinski Sloboda.

Sometime in the 1920's, Walter Benjamin noticed unusual streets of Moscow, - "it seems, a Russian village is here with you-and-seek." Today the game is over, game over. Perishing unique village Sokol, threatened village Dongauerovka. Club Rubber "and the name Rusakov, created by the architect Melnikov, are in a deplorable state, the fate of the Melnikov house precarious.

The authors, considering all the periods of Moscow architecture, and try to assess its current level, but, after describing the contradictions remain in doubt. Whether it is designer Lego, as a basis for Luzhkov style, or point to achieve somewhere in the countryside, away from the authorities. But the general conclusions about the architectural and construction of the current situation in Moscow is so clear, that someone has already identified the genre of the book as "materials of the future criminal proceedings. Perhaps in an international court, given the bilingual edition - in Russian and English languages.

Add that the book is dedicated to the memory of Alexei Komech (1936-2007), Director of the Institute of Art, one of the principal defenders of the authentic architecture of Moscow.

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Grigory Revzin
Time Machine
Luzhkov built Caricyno
XI-XII-MMVII - 11.12.2007


Museum in Tsaritsyn is a complex of a four large palace (part of Catherine the Great, Paul I, the total of both the palace and the grand palace, the historically called 'Bread House "), more than a dozen subsidiary, business and park facilities and fleet size of more than a hundred hectares. That is, the imperial residence, comparable to the palaces of absolute monarchs in Europe and the Russian imperial family near St. Petersburg - Pavlovsk, Gatchina, Strelna, Oranienbaum. The residence, originally built by Vasily Bazhenov commissioned by the Empress, she did not like and it was demolished, then the project was built by Matvey Kazakov (brought to the floor), but again did not like, was thrown, and never finished. Up to 1880-s. Palace was blocked by iron, then the roof was removed, and the palace has become a ruin - in this condition he stayed until 2004, when the Ministry of Culture of Russia has transferred it to Yuri Mikhailovich Luzhkov in exchange for the building of the Moscow City Duma, the former Lenin Museum.
By request of Yuri Mikhailovich renovated walls of the palace above it built the roof again (but on the first draft Kazakova, who had never been implemented), richly decorated with details of the fiber-reinforced concrete. Inside, the interiors are created in historical styles, built several office buildings in the style of Bazhenov, repaired all the service buildings, cleaned, and partly re-designed and planted the park, the pond created by a set of singing fountains in the park are scattered huts called "Shop the beekeeper, the palace was built glass pavilion with a neo-gothic grooves, as well as a monument Bazhenov and Kazakov sculptor Baranova.

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I should say that in terms of art, as well as legislation on the protection of monuments, which we have based on scientific ideas, rather than the current picture of the world, there was an act of vandalism. Original monument is destroyed, irretrievably, irrevocably, and added - triumphantly. Entire academic Russia - historians, art historians, museum workers - spit in the face, I would even say - victoriously spat.
What is there to comment on when such a disaster? It should probably say that all this is academic capital of Russia, which is a fraction of a percent from that which controls Yuri Luzhkov, and because of today's positions can not be taken into account. In addition, the heart of Muscovites, ordinary visitors Tsaritsyn, imbued with a sense not even meet, and the cheering of gratitude to the mayor, who gave Moscow a miracle. I know, communicate. I know more because before you approve this barbaric to art criticism in terms of the reconstruction project, the Moscow authorities conducted a survey on Caricyno finish building or not. And the project completion in the historical spirit of support for almost 90%of respondents, so here not to argue about.

When so radically at variance with the population and authorities in the area where you are an expert, you must move to the position of the ethnographer. Reader, I will tell about the amazing rituals adopted by the people as "Muscovites". They are today, in 2007, in all seriousness built an imperial residence of the XVIII century and consider it a museum. Repeat, museum, theme park and not on "Catherine II and her unfortunate son Paul. The museum was founded on the presumption of authenticity, in fact, they continue to insist that the Tsarina - a monument of XVIII century (on the grounds that there remained more than 50 percent of the historical material).
To insanity, they moved slowly. Even 30 years ago, Muscovites were normal European people with the ability to distinguish between past and present. And then something shifted.

First they built a copy of the photographs of the temple of Christ the Savior. It erased the difference between fake and genuine thing, because a copy has become a national shrine. Then they tore down the hotel "Moscow" and built it again, considering her the same hotel "Moscow". This convinced them that the last possible construction activities that occur in the present. The difference between past and present in substantial lost, but still they needed to in the past was something that they build in the present - a kind of artifact, which would create the identity of the two temporary beds. Finally, they built the new palace of XVIII century, which in the XVIII century was not, and now believe it there by the former. The difference between past and present was lost.

Such collapses in the mind can not be isolated, that is evident not only in the madness idea, but in concrete terms, the new palace of XVIII century, where they take the nature of consumer idiocy. For example, the palace is the Throne Hall, dedicated to the Empress Catherine the Great, Yuri Luzhkov, that his power was posthumously yet I still prescribed in the palace, despite its categorical refusal intravital. Hall two tiers of windows, with gold Corinthian columns. Since Matvey Kazakov not imagine two tiers of windows in the palace throne room, then had to break down the overlap between the first and second floor, but the ground floor windows were small, and the second - great. Two tiers of windows in the palace throne room of the XVIII century is just the opposite - with the giant windows of the first light and young second. So the room is located in the palace, as it were reversed, and the normal point of view, it needs to go on top and a statue of Catherine the Great to hang from the ceiling upside down, in the manner of the chandelier.

In some cases, Luzhkov's master (the chief architect of the complex was made by Michael Posokhin, but it is less a man, and organization - Mosproject-2) lacks the ability to navigate in time, confused the palace of XVIII century with other old buildings that they had seen, but can not remember at what time. For example, the main entrance to the palace is solved as an entrance with an open stairwell, however, is luxuriously decorated, mirrors and marble. So in the palaces have never made, nor the XVIII century, nor in XIX, as done in the tenement houses of the XIX century, and it is strange that in an open staircase well they thrust lift. The main hall on the third floor of the palace is solved as a Gothic glass ceiling and sash-rods. The image that came from the architecture of greenhouses, train stations and restaurants of the XIX century, but there was a cast-iron Gothic style, but here the oak in the style of the English classrooms of a private residence of Walter Scott era, where, however, never met such draft and the glass ceiling, because it did not constructed of cast iron. Wooden rod, naturally, leads, look pretty strange - they all bend in different directions. As if it is unconscious innovation, which arose because of loss of ability to distinguish between times.

Apart from this regrettable loss, Luzhkov's masters lost and the ability to distinguish between genuine and fake thing is not only historic, but in a more everyday sense. For example, in a large suite of rooms of the palace safely alternated between an oak and plastic portals, made by the same opposite pattern. Oak panels side by side with panels of chipboard. Magnificent (in the price category) parquet floors are connected with the walls painted democratic, green and blue paint with poor preparation real cause. Marble floors are found with plastic moldings. Qualitative mirrors - the mirror metallized film attached to the glass - such solutions are used in the station toilets.

Now in the halls of an exhibit "Imperial hunting", and there is a ravishing piece - the head of deer and wild boars, which are in the houses of the XVIII century was made to hang on the wall, hanging on the boards, shot down from the cheap parquet laminate. One of the co-operative diner 90 happened.

I understand that this kind of economic logic, Muscovites and Yuri Luzhkov, as their leader, simply could not allow that's stood in Moscow's Palace - and in ruins. But this too should be treated thrift ethnographically, and not from an economic point of view, because this kind of specific business functions. The argument in favor of reconstruction Tsarina was that before the reconstruction was a terrible wild filthy place. But in order to maintain order in the park and the ruins, much effort hundred janitors. In order to maintain order in the museum, will need the same janitors, and even the museum staff, and even the cost of its heating, electricity, maintenance, climate, etc. etc. - Ten times more money. However, I can not understand why all this works. Frankly, I do not quite understand how in these areas to the exhibition - any real thing, getting into them, begins to seem a Chinese fake. But even if we forget about it, there are also such a circumstance. Imperial Residence - is a specific type of museums and their exhibition consists of themselves. No one would hold his head in Versailles or the Tsarskoe Selo exhibition of contemporary art, or anything like that - it shows how it lived under the emperors. Accordingly, the entire museum staff, electricity and heat are needed to show the interiors, created by Yuri Mikhailovich Luzhkov. In principle, the front of the museum, as they say, holds great prospects - there is only the Throne Hall, and the need to make Catherine's bedroom, her room, dining room, maids of honor and of cavaliers and then all this support. Agree that in this economic logic is something maniacal.

In general we can say that in this complex combines three groups of masters corresponding to different periods of the reign of Yuri Mikhailovich. First, there is a powerful jet of the underground complex at the Manege, cheap jet cooperative hack-work characteristic of early Yuri Mikhailovich. It is particularly characteristic of the premises and the buffet restaurant, seems to directly move from Manezhny fast food. Secondly, there is the master of marble and wood, which struggled on the construction of a branch of the Bolshoi Theater and Moscow State University Libraries Lengorah. They combine their work fantastically expensive materials and very high quality of their treatment with such nemudryaschey helpless figure, that even as something becomes uncomfortable. Well, as if criticizing the exhibition of children's drawings from boarding school for defective - only it somehow transferred to the marble and semiprecious stones. And finally, there is a third group, migrated here from the reconstruction of the Grand Kremlin Palace. These phenomenal gold What no hitting and create an image of itself pestrenkoy imperial state in history. I think they lent Luzhkov HOZU presidential administration, and the feeling that before they did samovars, gimp and brocade cushions orders, and possibly the government coffins.

All of this together, in general, the natural consequence of the fact that all the specialists spit in the face - in a complex acute lack of even one person who basically understands how it happens in the houses of the XVIII century. Generally, if the measure is a work in general, it is most likely a result of a fleeting visit to the customer a new Russian film "Dead Man's Bluff" Peterhof, when he looked at it and decided that it must all be like kings. I really like that happened. Well, as it seems.


But in this "how to" has two aspects. There is art criticism, but there is a property of time, I suppose. You see, when you come into this Tsaritsyno, and there is a hundred hectares of the park trimmed and brushed hundred of thousands of Tajiks, and hundreds of masters of something hastily domazyvayut, doshlifovyvayut, put chandeliers, clear glass, and fountains, singing and jumping along the paths of a student riding school, and even Tajiks clean the carriage and sleigh and much gilded swans were brought, and in the shops beekeepers "have some candy-bast bearded baranochki laid out and hundreds of cops around caressing belly in anticipation of a quiet old age, researchers stuffed bear for the arrival of a vacuum cleaner Mr. Gryzlov, folklore girls boots measured the red, then what, I ask you, what not XVIII century? Why not serfdom, not absolutism, than not savagery "buntashnogo" century?
Partly Tsaritsin invented a time machine that allows to freely return to any point of the past and restore order there. But only partially. Hardly Yuri Mikhailovich could revive it all so if we were in some sense, and not all lived in the same XVIII century. One convention that is - a museum. Must somehow this review. It must be right to call it a palace, Yuri Luzhkov, open to the public.
http://www.projectclassica.ru/art_jo...007/artj22.htm

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Not a bad article Revzin.

Vertical kulturkoy took up

Governor of St. Petersburg Valentina Matvienko authorizes the construction of the 403-meter glass tower of Gazprom on Okhta. Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov enthusiastically raises fresh capital in the construction of XVIII-XIX century. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin of Russia has studied cinema and visited the studio of artist-Maitre. What's happening? In our own aesthetic power appeared Program?

Cultured people do not agree with the desire of Mrs. Matvienko and Mr. Miller to decorate the beautiful views of St. Petersburg 400-meter target, and they, in contrast, do not agree with cultured people. I do not agree. However, I am surprised fancifulness conduct of his spirit of dissent. According to many on the path of rethinking national heritage, Mrs. Matvienko acts as the successor of Mr. Luzhkov. In the sense that at first he messed Moscow, but now she does the same with St. Petersburg. But a sober mind can not help but notice that they are shitting in different ways. Yury rushed to the old Moscow, to express that he felt in the absence of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. He resisted the rise in something not suitable to the temple, and the cultural community retrograde Derzhimorda scolded him, but he did not hesitate. On the contrary, Mrs. Matvienko as timid deer, the whole look at the future. It is burdened with the dust of the old museum of St. Petersburg, she languishes among the crumbling tinsel balusters and capitals, marble causes mucus in it harmful to melancholy. Her ideal - the rocket, youth, standing vertical object.

What have they been pulled in completely different directions, and the cultural community, and there, and there is one and the same. Let's take me. In Moscow, I'm all isperezhivalsya on retrograde mayor, and Peter going through right in the opposite direction. I watch myself in the unfortunate levity, but I'm not alone. On the contrary, that this position, looking in the eyes of the authorities as long as quarreling, characteristic of many cultural people.

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That would be them, Luzhkov Matvienko, want one - then it would be and I have been in the views of integrity. You look at them - in fact one and the same gift that the opposite sex. And the taste is a disturbing discrepancy. Luzhkov's desire not to let the city of modern architecture - what was it? This was a program of architectural postmodernism early 1980's. Then in Europe and America was disappointed in modernism, it seemed that poor people live in the same boxes and need to return to the old streets of the historic city. Yuri Mikhailovich implement this idea with a lag of 15 years, making between them and professional elite emerged aesthetic differences. Now about Valentina Ivanovna. Her desire to build a skyscraper with a twisting, which showed the way to progress - this is the program neomodernizma early 1990's. Then, in Europe and America, disenchantment already in postmodernism, it seemed that if you create a modern architecture at the level of modern engineering, then any unique things from which people will already be good. Mativenko also started to implement this program with a lag of 15 years.

Artistic trends, as everyone remembers, first conceived, then they happen maturity, flowering, and then comes maneristicheskaya stage, then the style dies. I never could understand why they act as lead. They're inanimate. While I studied range was socialism, and therefore imagine that it has something to do with sociology and economics, it was not for lack thereof. Now it has changed, but, unfortunately, together with socialism gone, and interest in such subjects. In other models, which came to my mind, would be enough for a scientific school of. The idea is simple. We just started not with the birth of style, but with a flourish. Suppose some style blossomed and born grand creations of human genius. By definition, they are elitist - artistic elite of their produce, the elite of society pays. The problem is that the style in a state of prosperity strives to subjugate all around. And the elite quickly discovers that her side has developed very similar to it, put it in modern language, business class. The very elite of a more or less able to understand where a masterpiece, and where the business class, but others confuse one with another. This means that the style in a state of flowering ceases to provide elite.

Elite is responsible for this dramatic complication of the art system, so that the mass could not keep up with her. So there maneristicheskaya stage style. The complexity of language here is a passport to elitism. But it does not work, because those on whom the elite is separated, must somehow distinguish between the simplicity of complexity, and it requires elite skills. And then abruptly changes tack elite. She brings a new style that is difficult to simulate, because the rules of imitation are not developed yet. I really like this explanation of artistic cycle, but there is a problem that is hidden in the notion of elite. It is assumed that the artistic elite and elite customers - are one and the same. But they can not only vary, but even compete. Luzhkov and Matvienko - a case of competition, power and cultural elite of the right to determine the aesthetic agenda. They deliberately repelled from the fact that they impose cultural elite, defending the right of the fact that their taste is decisive and no they are not decree.

This return to the Soviet model, where the authorities tried to determine the artistic standard and beat them on the cultural elite, so that she obeyed. But the Soviet government was ideological, its taste was determined by non-standard logics. Not now. Now, the power for themselves as an aesthetic program that the artistic elite to nominate as relevant agenda 15 years ago (it's just time for which the idea of an elite into a mass, and even went so far Luzhkov) and then pouring it deja vu for areas to present themselves as setter of taste.

This is a fun situation. To a certain extent, this is absurd, it is as if Valentina Matvienko, dressed in the fashion 15 years ago, and all the ladies dressed in collections this year, bait, to show who is the trendsetter. But the absurdity does not mean inability. Over the past six months, Vladimir Putin criticized the "Woe from Wit," directed by Galina Volchek, butted into the problems of the cinema, went to Mr. Glazunov, as well as he had celebrated his birthday with the writers. Vertical kulturkoy took up, I think the above mechanism will operate not only in architecture.

This is a valuable resource. We Orhan Pamuk in his book "Istanbul. City of memories "is the story of the Turkish avant-garde artists. They are fond of the Paris School, tried and Impressionism, and Fauvism, and Cubism, and wanted to convey by means of these currents their Turkish meanings. Their fate is sad. The Turks do not appreciate them because they do not understand the allusions to the French, the Europeans do not appreciate them because they do not understand the subtext of the Turkish and feel a deep secondary. In fact, when you look in the halls of the Tretyakov Gallery artists of the sixties and beyond, you see the same thing - a secondary school, trying to express the language of "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" the value of the Russian bath. But the fate of Russian artists was not the one that the Turks. They bought the Western collectors, kept dissidents, and now they are our national heritage.

They pulled Khrushchev, when he came to the exhibition "XXX years of MOSH" in Manege in 1962. Artist Leonid Rabichev describes this scene. Hikita S. part, was silent a moment, then loudly, with hatred says: "Shit!" Thinking, adds: "Pidarasy!" Standing next to Rabichevym Suslov shouting: "stifle!" "Arrest them! Destroy! Shoot him! "- Shouted the other members of the Government (Shelepin, Mazurov, Furtseva). Khrushchev is coming to a self-portrait by Boris Zhutovski. "At two years of logging," - tells it. Suddenly, someone draws attention to the artist Alexei Collie and shouted: "Here live a homosexual!" Government members surround him and shout: "Living a homosexual!" Living a homosexual! "Unpleasant, of course. But what effect! When the head of state since yelling at the artist, at once clear that this is a serious artist that he is for freedom.

Previously unthinkable that Vladimir Putin came to the show and yelled at the artists: "Landing where? In the dry-loo! Obreja! ", Although this would increase the capitalization of incredible art. Now the situation has changed. The government appeared his own aesthetic agenda. We ought to learn to work with her.

http://www.artchronika.ru/item.asp?id=1735

And read http://www.archi.ru/events/news/jour...id=3&fl=1&sl=2

[Allena]

"In the old boulevards of Moscow.

c 19 to 29 November, Moscow

 Vladimir Kachanov - an artist with a rare attitude to life. Indifferent. "We are in the daily bustle of walking around the city and did not notice it, and the inconvenience of living in old, rundown homes are helping to put up with the destruction of the city, with disappearance of Beauty. But man, seeing the beauty, no longer allow her to destroy, - considers the swing. - Be able to see the beauty of the city and show it to people - in this mission of the artist. In 1994, the "troubled" the artist gave a solo exhibition at the Central House of Artists under the name "Moscow stretches, where calls for the preservation of the urban fabric. In the booklet for the exhibition, he wrote: "In 1987, the parkway cut down, someone did not like the old ash alley. They put young maples. Perhaps in fifty years - one hundred (if they survive maples) Boulevard will once again have its soul, a new face, but we live in today ... Keep one has not only historical monument, but also the landscape in which this monument is located. And if you allow someone without a heart waving an ax, then today there would be no Summer Garden or Walk Kern, neither Moscow boulevards. So after Christmas boulevard plan should have been "reconstructed" Peter, Passion, Color ... Trees in the log house had already been labeled. Concerned Muscovites managed to raise the public articles have appeared in newspapers. We were able to then save the poplars on the colored, on Strastnom boulevards ... "

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Alas, it took not much time, but no longer have the saved time poplars on the colored or limes on Yauza ... And for a favorite artist Rozhdestvensky Boulevard began again. Since 1994 Kachanov mainly exhibited abroad (Germany, France). But returned. Again, did not remain indifferent. In September 2009, with the support of the project "Moscow, where there is no" left a kind of diary of the artist-album "Moscow receding. Boulevards »(http://moskva.kotoroy.net/book_four/). Now the exhibition. And she, too, is devoted not to the masterpieces of architecture, and the old Moscow boulevards and simple cozy yard, which should be preserved and protected. After all, in any city there is nothing like the Moscow boulevards. Sketches from the Collection of the artist, written more than forty years, and presented at the exhibition reveal the surprising originality of old Moscow.


As part of the exhibition series will be held evenings on the boulevards of Moscow and organized historical and cultural project "Moscow, which is not. Every known moskvovedy, historians, writers and journalists will be impromptu virtual walks, where will talk about his Moscow, about their favorite boulevards:


November 20 19.00 - Gogol Boulevard, Alexander Usol'tsev (project "Moscow Walks").

November 21 at 19.00 - Nikitsky Boulevard, Alexander Frolov (local historian, journalist).

22 November 19.00 - Tverskaya Boulevard, Denis Romodin (Project SovArh ").

November 23 at 19.00 - the Good and Petrovsky Boulevard, Alexander Mozhayev (local historian, the project "Arhnadzor").

November 25 19.00 - Rozhdestvensky Boulevard, Nikita Brusilovsky (ethnographer, historian).

November 26 19.00 - Sretensky Boulevard, Rustam Rahmatullin (journalist, writer, winner of the Big Book ").

November 27 at 19.00 - Chistoprudny Boulevard, Alexander Usol'tsev (project "Moscow Walks").

November 28 12.00 - Pokrovsky and Yauzsky Boulevard, Sergei Brel (a poet, screenwriter, local historian).

29 November at 19.00 - "bizarre phenomenon of the Moscow boulevards, Alexei Mitrofanov (writer, author of a series of books about Moscow).

The exhibition runs from 19 th to 29 November from 12.00 to 20.00. Admission is free (entrance fee at the lecture).

Address: Moscow, Vorotnikovsky Lane., 12.
 
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Defenders of Moscow's architectural and historical monument felt threatened

( "The New York Times", USA)

15/12/200912: 33

Artists and activists of the movement for the protection of historical monuments in the perturbation: Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signed a decree allowing the opinion of critics, the demolition of architectural and historical monument of the Soviet era - the Central House of Artists (CHA).

Among other things, the seat of the XX century canvases from the collection of the Tretyakov Gallery (including Malevich and Kandinsky, as well as masters of the school of socialist realism). Valuable land at CHA is located near the Moscow River opposite Gorky Park, and took twenty-three acres. Billionaire wife of Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, Elena Baturina, made his fortune in real estate, long time to sharpen his teeth.

Last year, Baturin unveiled its project, commissioned by it, with Norman Foster (Norman Foster). Externally, the building resembles a mirrored disco ball, cut into slices like an orange ( "orange" to the people and called).

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The decree signed by Putin, dated Nov. 28, although it is known about him was only in December. Neither Putin nor Baturin, nor any of the government officials did not comment on the document.
Director of the Museum of Architecture named Schuseva David Sarkisyan, previously fought against the demolition of dozens of buildings in Moscow, said in a telephone interview that he was sure: the scene of intrigue and are someone's financial interests.
"They have divided the territory and the money among themselves", - "Sarkisian said.

At first glance, the Central House of Artists - is another example of no use to anyone heritage of the Soviet era. It was built in 1980, when the Moscow Olympics, and now occupies a special place in the hearts of intellectuals, who remembered what it shows special films, which gave countless concerts and museum exhibits as they are stored. CHA visited nearly two million people a year. In December, for example, at a book fair held there, it's tens of thousands of visitors.

How Sarkisyan, and Moscow's leading architects, among them - Eugene Asse, certify that the building, although it has no official status of the monument, it is possible to restore rather than destroy.
The area around CHA famous because of her post-Soviet era monuments placed public figures - from Stalin to Brezhnev and Felix Dzerzhinsky (founder of the Soviet secret police, the monument was dropped from a pedestal in front of the KGB after the failed putsch of August 1991). Monuments now make up the artistic composition, is built around a memorial in honor of the victims of the Gulag.

In Putin's decree, call for "integrated development" of the city municipal government and the construction of the building, which Moscow would send the federal government under the Tretyakov Gallery.

The document, which critics of the project say that it is written very cleverly and with great care, not the dates of construction and made no mention demolition. However, according to CHA director Vasily Bychkov, in fact, the decree is a "green light" wishing to demolish the building.
Baturin positioned its "orange" project as a multipurpose complex with a hotel, space for retail businesses, restaurants and corner of the museum.

Employees of the Tretyakov Gallery and the Confederation of Unions of Artists, which owns the remaining forty per cent of the area of the building and the right to lease the land occupied by him, were in shock. A few months later, after several meetings with the authorities, they expressed their support for the project, saying that finally get much-needed ultramodern facilities, which are built next to the existing building and then demolish it.

Advocates of Central House of Artists signed petitions, staged protests and together attended the hearing organized by the municipal authorities of Moscow to take into account public opinion.
It was hoped that the demolition of buildings in Moscow to stop the financial crisis. But in December, a Moscow business newspaper Kommersant reported that Baturin had recently visited a government meeting at which a question was raised about the CHA. The influential architectural critic and a member of Kommersant Grigory Revzin last week, giving interviews on the air for Radio Liberty, said that Putin likes of Foster.

Director of the Central House of Artists Bychkov also owns the Expo park, tenants in the building for various events. He wrote us an e-mail, which promised to continue fighting, but by other methods.

The experience "has shown that organize the struggle in Russia is senseless" - wrote Bychkov. - "We want to engage the international community of artists. To say we are not from a political standpoint, but from an ethical, professional and in terms of art ".

http://inosmi.ru/social/20091215/157020253.html

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rally against the demolition of CHA will take place at the entrance to Gorky Park Gorky

19/12/200908: 53

MOSCOW, December 19 - RIA Novosti. Authorized rally against the demolition of the Central House of the artist will be held on Sunday at the entrance to Central Park of Culture and rest. Gorky, RIA Novosti said the organizers, the movement "right to the city."

It will be part of Moscow architects and artists, as well as representatives of opposition political organizations. "The rally will be held under the slogan" Hands off the Central House of Artists "and" This is - not our master plan! "

In the view of the organizers, "Master Plan-2025 Moscow denies not only the future but the past - in terms of prospects for the destruction of 360 scheduled monuments, history and culture, not just individual buildings, but entire streets, squares and neighborhoods."

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Development of the territory on the Crimean shaft repeatedly became the occasion for much debate.

Information about the possible demolition of the Central House of Artists (built in 1962 - 1964 project of Nicholas Sukoyanya and Yuri Sheverdyaeva), appeared in the press after a 2008 exhibition in Cannes, a draft set of "Orange", who developed the famed British architect Sir Norman Foster. The representatives of Russian media coverage of the exhibition, and along with them - leadership of the Tretyakov Gallery and the International Confederation of Artists' Union, were surprised to find that the "Orange" should stand still CHA.

Then the museum's administration has criticized the draft Foster, according to which the building should have been placed not only the exhibition halls, but also commercial premises, offices and residential apartments.

The protest led to the Moscow authorities and the desire to get rid of CHA buildings, the largest exhibition ground in the city center. In response to this initiative, the capital management was set up a Public Council for Cultural Center, which led the CHA director Vasily Bychkov. Entered into him dozens of prominent cultural figures who oppose the demolition of the building on the Crimean shaft, which is even attempted, in spite of a rather dull appearance, declaring it a monument of architecture.

However, the preparation of development projects going on as usual, and in August 2008, representatives of the Tretyakov Gallery and the Confederation of artists worked for the builders of the technical task, suggesting that the Crimean shaft should see two new, separate museum building. However, both organizations put forward one condition: the building of CHA may be released only after the new premises will be fully prepared.

The second wave of discussion arose after a public hearing in February last (2008), in the course of which was launched a development project, slammed the residents of surrounding houses and other residents of Moscow. Do not like the plan and the Tretyakov Gallery, suddenly found himself in close proximity to the Garden Ring.

The finalized draft, however, has not been submitted. Discussions on the possible demolition of CHA subsided themselves, especially since the crisis erupted, and another in July 2009, the Director of the Tretyakov Gallery was not sure that the project could ever be implemented.

However, in December 2009 was issued Government Regulation Number RF 1796-P, on which the Tretyakov Gallery on the Crimean shaft gets a new building, after which the museum vacate its space at the Central House of Artists (CHA). Once the new building for the museum will be built and put into operation, it is a two-month period must be transferred to federal ownership. Then, 38.826 thousand square meters (approximately 60%of the total area), which is now in the Tretyakov Gallery, Central House of Artists, would be owned by Moscow.

Thus, the demolition of CHA again from the category of rumors came into the category quite real events in the future - after the mayoralty of the capital of the federal land in the Central House of Artists building can be dismantled and in its place - new project.

The rally will begin at 15.45 (Moscow time).

http://www.rian.ru/moscow/20091219/200203653.html

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Сообщение от Tjutchev

rally against the demolition of the Central House of the artist will be held on Sunday at the entrance to Central Park of Culture and rest. Gorky

About! Journalism then Tjutchev deploy, well!

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Thank you for your message! We will definitely come!
(though probably sense that there's no no, the money is already divided into I suppose, but one should somehow express their civic position ... even pomerznem for the truth ...)

We decided to go with children (at the same time ... went to the Tretyakov Gallery)
We announce a competition for a children's poster in the protection of the House of Artists
My version of "Uncle, Carry a better Kremlin Palace of Congresses!"
Proposals will be accepted until 12.00 20.12.09

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Сообщение от Tamara

today announced a poster contest for children in the protection of the House of Artists
My version of "Little Uncle, tear down the Palace of Congresses is better!"

Tamara, you be careful, please, your uncle may at the same time the Kremlin to demolish! That they quickly made ...