And I was brought up by his father, he took me in Arkhangelsk, Abramtsevo, Sheremetyevo, Kolomna - all the famous places of Moscow region, told the story of these places. He took me to Leningrad, showed palaces that were built under the tsars, explaining why they are saved and why they should be protected.
My father was brought up at the Pushkin. And now, before going to sleep, I need to read this great poet - bad sleep now. And if I wake up at five in the morning - also read Pushkin. I am very fond Isiyu, a famous Japanese poet, loved Ferdowsi, Saadi. When I criticized - why I do not read Yevtushenko and Voznesensky, I always meet wonderful couplets. For example: "Here is a dragonfly. She flies night and day. She is looking for his own shadow." Amazing! Or: "That's sakura blossom. She drove a horse and the prince-proud." Is this not the social background? Certainly. There were so amazing, to historical materialism born poets. Love of literature, my father instilled.
He, I had a wonderful, no fear: there is a picture of the Soviet time, where his royal medal on his chest. And I have orders twelve pieces, it seems - to me they simply have nowhere to hang (laughs). I was awarded at a very young age with the Order of Honor. When we were on tour in Lviv, me from the bus because of that shot the policeman. I thought that I put on someone else's Order of the dress. Mama I pinned this order, because the dress was a hole on the brooch. And when he saw the servant girl about a small growth with a medal on his chest, he took me and led me to understand the separation ...
- Please tell us how you are in the thirties became involved in the Kremlin's concerts.
- When I finished school, I was barely seventeen. Everything I wrote that "Lepeshinskaya danced in all the concerts of the Kremlin. Indeed, Stalin treated me well. Table of artists stood closest to the corridor, through which the concert Stalin. He always walked alone, and with him went all the Politburo. Very convenient to construct the stage - to dance it is very easy - at the end of the St. George Hall. In parallel, the stage was a table behind which sat the Politburo, and always sat in the center of Stalin. And all the other tables were perpendicular to the "main" - until the very end of St. George Hall. With great food! This was of great significance in those very lean years.
I am the first in our noble family began to read "Komsomolskaya Pravda"
- Nevertheless, I was absolutely loyal Komsomol.
In fact I could not say that our family of nobility. I do not hear! Only one of my noble family, whom I recognized, was my grandfather. Because of his estate, he opened a school for peasant children. For me it was the "grandfather of the pro-direction" (laughs).
After all, I think, the first in our family began to read "Komsomolskaya Pravda". And I was nine years old. My sister was a very busy man, and I read her article from this newspaper. I remember - twenty-fifth year, and I read aloud to her notes of the "Komsomolskaya Pravda"!
I remember how my mother for the last final concert, where I played a piece Dyusseka two piano with my teacher, Elena Popova (I was a good pianist), from the cherished some drawer pulled out the lace, to put it on my white collar. This lace belonged to one of my grandmothers. I made a great scandal! Stated that it "lace belonged to the class of oppressors!" (laughs). Such things, of course, could speak only in his early years.
- How do you now look at this problem?
- Problems of this for me does not exist. When arrested the sister of my father, is absolutely crystal clear man - I could no longer remain so loyal to the ideals of the party. Of course, I did not burn my membership card, not letting him into the sewers - he is still lying in my desk. It is - part of my past, it's all been, and had a lot of good.
But this is my party activities had ended. I have just become a ballerina. After his arrest Aunt Shura I stopped believing in all those slogans. She could not make any mistake to go to jail.
And I was very influenced by the arrest of the wife Molotov, Polina Zhemchuzhina. We met her at a reception in the Kremlin in honor of the Eighth of March, where I learned all the women of our party leaders. About Voroshilov's wife, Catherine Davydovna, said that she was very strict, austere, advised "to stay away from her." And she was beautiful, intelligent woman! She treated me very well, sat by his side, saying that we should learn that in addition to what should work the legs, head, too, must be "in".
A Molotov's wife took up my education. She drove me to orphanages. And most of his salary - Ulanova and I got six thousand, then it was a lot of money - I gave in these homes. And all my life, I help people. I recently lost his sight eight piccaninny, was operated on - how not to give money?
Arrest Polina was for me the tragedy. She came to the prison with a stomach ulcer. And back - cured! She washed dishes, floors, washing.
And then, after many years, when Molotov was ambassador to Mongolia, the Bolshoi came on tour in China. Polina has caused me a telegram, and I arrived in Mongolia. There was a small ballet circle, and the teacher taught Sokolov Mongolian kids ballet. It was something to see. I had to even make any comments which are always the teacher asks. But I made a delicate way, only through "good".
I so wanted to dance, that I sometimes had to dress, so I did not before time ran out on stage!
- In addition to his wife of Molotov, who had to have the same strong influence?
- This, in addition to my father and Polina, Ivan Semenovich Kozlovsky. My mother, incidentally, loved him very much, so that even before I met him him something to do with was (laughs). He saw all of my performances. I danced ... Well as you say - never better Ulanova, never better Semenova, of course, much worse, but I Lepeshinskaya. Which is - there is one. Could my performance did not like it, but I really have a natural technique. The only thing that possessed me at the performances - is the joy of dance.
I'm so wanted to dance in the ballet "Don Quixote" I sometimes had to dress, so I did not before time ran out on stage! Because this music was played ... Well, I could not stand still.
So, once Kozlovsky said the words that became for me very important. Kozlovsky took my hand, took fourth in the scenes and said: "Technology - that's not all. To have it be necessary. But if you do not feel the lyrical direction in music, you price a penny. You must learn the" Dying Swan. "And I danced entirely "Dying Swan." Bury This is not me. But this experience gave me a lot. I feel about this swan as he is dying of wounds, and I spent the last moments of being, until the moment when blood flows more slowly, more slowly and stops.
Kozlovsky gave me to understand that, if everything comes easily to you, it does not mean that you have in your profession, so good. On the contrary, you should go through all the difficulties, to experience them.
Kozlovsky was a believer. And when he once asked me if I believe in God, I told him Ulanova words: "My God - in me." I was not taught to pray, and nowhere do I pretend that I am a believer in the conventional sense of the word. I have a Bible. And now I'm much easier to perceive. Previously, as a member of the Komsomol, I rejected it at all!
I was deputy chairman of everything that can be
- Olga, you have long been the Vice Chairman of the Committee of Soviet Women ...
- You know, I think, was a vice chairman of everything that can be (laughs). Boris Yefimov, our wonderful artist, with whom we have a very long time close friends (he was one hundred and four years, by the way), calls me "suede". We are always open Efimov ball at the Central House of Arts. And I think he is the youngest of all. Efimov is officially my cavalry - in all the balls (laughs). There's even a picture, where he keeps me in support of the ballet.
Central House of Artists of the Order of Friendship of Peoples, which I chair, is very dear to me. Now, despite the fact that I obeznozhennaya that hope of recovery is almost there, I continue to lead our home. After many years of war returned to my feet - they refused to walk. Because I had to dance in pointe on the damp earth ... But my feet - this is my head (laughs). But I did not omit the wings. The hope that I can walk, remains. I'm afraid that if I go - it is building, this tasty morsel for many, do we take away.
The mayor has promised to have it repaired - he was obliged to do so, because it is a monument of ancient architecture. I remember once we are at our gatherings in the Central House of Arts was invited by Yuri Luzhkov - he was relaxed, amiable, open! All of us obayal. I asked for money from the mayor, to repair our house. After the steps of the house went into eternity Stanislavsky. This alone is enough to repair, I think, not counting the fact that we have three and sometimes four events per day! Young makes plays, going to philatelists, people of interest. All creative work is excellent, we Engelisa G. Pogorelov. And the fact that the mayor still has not fulfilled his promise, I will not forgive him.
A prompted us an idea - to create a house - Lunacharsky. We were young and played in the house Lunacharskys. We are in his apartment staged performances. With mezzanine doing some incredible things! After all, imagination in those years was significantly higher than now (laughs). And he suggested: "Why do you, people of different professions, not to gather in one place?" And we grasped the idea.
Across from the "Eliseevsky" was a figure as if in a ballet pose: two hands were raised up. Ilya Ehrenburg's Tempest wrote that it was standing, I
- Please tell us about your concerts, which took place first at the front, and then - in all the liberated countries.
- I was utterly in love with the Young Communist League. Because I - absolutely a product of Soviet power. It was a wonderful time. Because we were very passionate about - not the idea of "Workers of all countries, unite!", We thought about it the least.
When disturbances broke out before the war, we washed the floors in the underground, saw off the trains. And on this and burned your humble servant. Why? Once the war started, I threw the shoes are for the cabinet, said that dancing will not. Only the war! (Laughs)
And the two of us, two Komsomol - Mara Damaeva and I went to the district committee to demand that we be sent to the front. And a very dear Colonel Gabriel Tarasovich Vasilenko said: Of course, you're right, but first you must pass courses in nursing. (Incidentally, at the end of the war I met him already general in Baden-Baden.) He has sent us a wonderful clinic doctor Peter Herzen. We came to this hospital. We were led to the mandibular division. There were patients who did not have half of the face. And I do not remember how I took steps back from this room to have the door to faint.
I realized that a nurse from me does not work, should devote their energies to the front in another way. And we in the House of Art Workers were floors, where the wounded were lying. We were the first of those who began collecting teams going to the front.
While at the house number 17, across from the "Eliseevsky" store on Tverskaya Street, the figure stood as if in a ballet pose: two hands were raised up. Ilya Ehrenburg's Tempest wrote that it is I stand. And my partner on the Bolshoi Michael Gabovich commanded then point PVHO - an organization which, incidentally, was on the roof of the notorious newspaper you - "Izvestia". And after the bombing of the different districts of Moscow rang Gabovich and asked: "Lepeshinskaya alive?".
And somehow, when he left one of the trains at the front, we saw off their comrades, had fiery speeches, talking from the heart. And suddenly I hear the voice of the boy, who was secretary of the Komsomol organization of the inhibitory factory: "Listen, comrade Lepeshinskaya, you'd better danced." And then I realized that I should do what I can: Dance! And I immediately, before going echelon, danced! I so much, for so long to dance, as in any ballet: Russian, Cossack, Gipsy, lezginka ...
I remember our first gig - in 1941 in the half-ruined church near Mozhaisk. Participated Kruglikova, Zhuravlev, Autograph, Transfiguration, Mikhailov, I. Just three hours from Moscow, we traveled to the front lines!
One side of the dome has fallen off. Paul lay it in half an hour. And Maxim Mikhailov said: "I was a deacon, and here again I returned to the church." I have not danced in a pack, because once Stalin said: "Why bundle? Tutu - this is something official. It is better to dress". And I danced in a chiton. I even have pictures of where I'm dancing in the chiton in "Don Quixote". This seems to be sacrilege. But since Stalin said - I was dancing in a chiton.
It was in 1941. Even though I gave concerts for going to the front and to our wounded, but did not want to sit in the rear. It attracted me to the front, not to fight, but to help those I can. And in order to let me go to the front, Ivan Semenovich Kozlovsky sent a telegram to Stalin with a request to release me and him. And he sent us.
And in a quilted jacket, in some unimaginable boots, I was in the Bolshoi Theater. It scared all - decided that the enemy stole
- The team we have assembled a remarkable man. We sang and danced, it seems, all over Europe. Where only were not: his feet left the ground, in the sand, almost in the black oil - remember, about the place where I danced, it was a whole lake of fuel oil. Pity I did not keep the shoes in which she danced for the military: they were black.
But, despite the fact that there was a war, I remember this time happily. Although there have been a very scary moment: we drove to the front, and we ran to escape the Nazis, walked, drove, vpryagayas in carts, people. A lot of people. Women, children, old people were brought in carts some belongings, blankets, little food. I saw mutilated bodies on the edges of the road, people alive, but such mutilated, what to look for them was terrible, in the gutters - wrecked tanks, machine.
But I do not vividly remember the terrible things that are not of those expelled from their villages, the people (of whom only have to remember - just in tears appear), but I remember the blue sky, bright sun, green poplar trees, an open side of the truck - and it is worth Kozlovsky sings. And as she sings! So, like around the velvet chairs, gilded floor and wall lamps, high ceiling - in a word, as if at the Bolshoi Theater. A half-dead columns of people - those horrible images I also remember, but I remember most is the sky, poplar and singing in a truck Kozlovsky.
And then we went to Kharkov, which was then a second time passed into the hands of the Red Army. All guide future Marshal Georgy Zhukov. He invited us into his bunker. Of course, he understood, and our desire to fight, and the desire to be helpful, but he thought it necessary to feed in the first place. (Laughs) Zhukov saw that we were exhausted from hunger. We were treated to an excellent Ukrainian borsch.
And when dinner was over, Kozlovsky sang only that there is "dark night" of the Theological. And the first time people saw the face Zhukov - and he was like a carved out of some precious metal face - tears. It was an extraordinary experience. People who are surrounded by Zhukova for many years, saw it the first time. When Kozlovsky finished singing, Zhukov kissed him. Georgy has not left us in Kharkov, because the enemy artillery shelled the city. Zhukov we sent a military unit which was stationed near Kharkov. And our first performances began in this part, and then ...
Whenever we are not constructing a scene! Once, we even danced on the balustrade of the hospital. On the stone slabs. I was only in 1944, managed to come to Moscow to change shoes. And I took a dozen pairs of shoes! And they all turned into a pink satin cloth. They were the stones are drilled, because they danced on the ground, on the sand. Moreover, the left shoe was more battered - remember Pushkin: "It is worth Istomin, she, with one foot touching the floor, others more slowly circling. And further: "Fast foot leg beats. That's just this movement ends with the famous Adagio of the second act of Swan Lake.
When victory came, we were in the army - Austria, then Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia. The last was Poland. When we arrived in Warsaw, there was nobody there. Houses are destroyed, not a single person. And suddenly appeared in the Victory Day crowds of thousands of people. How they get there - from the ground? But they all came to watch the concert.
I then danced three times - because one of the audience left, and came to the other. The audience wept. Because they can see the artists of the Bolshoi Theater in Warsaw, which had just been liberated from the Germans. And we, the artists, wept too. And the same evening I received a telegram: "immediately return to Moscow - for you to do" Cinderella. "Staged Zakharov."
And in a quilted jacket, in some unimaginable boots, I was in the Bolshoi Theater. It scared all - decided that the enemy stole. (Laughs.) And when I opened the door to dressing room, I saw in our room Ulanova. I nearly fainted.
Our Ulanova with dressing tables stood nearby. And by talent, we separated for miles
- What are you talking about? After all, you have not seen for several years.
- Said to each other: "Hello," and I sat at my desk and began to pull out from the excitement that some of the tables.
I have since collected all the articles about Ulanova. On her side, no one could stand. Only our dressing tables stood nearby. And by talent, we separated for miles. Beside her might stand only Semenova, which this year, in ninety-five years, left the theater where he recently taught.
Husband Semenova Stalin sent as ambassador to Turkey. And she brilliantly danced Giselle in Paris with the famous French dancer Serge Lifar at the Grand Opera. I was told about it himself Lifar when treated me to lunch almost on the tenth floor of the Eiffel Tower. It turns out he went to bow one, not wanting to share the applause with Semenova. Then she went out - and heard the thunder of applause.
By the way, Ulanova was telling me about how I first saw Semyonov. Ulanova because in his youth studied with his mother - the Romanovs and the last two school years she studied at the Vaganova. Then it was a difficult time, and the hall was very cold. Heat the room, only one stove. Once the door opened, and entered Semenov. All immediately cease to engage, as soon as they saw it in the chiton: its precise figure, a small head, a magnificent beauty legs. They could not continue to work, stared at her fascinated. Then Semyonov joined the work in the general classroom.
I like how our president is on the red carpet. Like, how is sitting - not waving his hands
When our class was finishing school in 1932, the director of the Bolshoi Theater Malinovskaya realized that something of the Moscow Ballet School is not enough. And in Moscow lacked the first ballet technique, the cornerstone. Moscow is famous for his experiments. From the standpoint of promoting ballet forward this city has made an invaluable contribution. But - technology! And Malinovskaya invites six of the best teachers from the Mariinsky Theater - Gerdt, Leontiev, Kozhukhova, Chekrygin, Monakhov, Goncharova, to teach us, the Muscovites. And I - product of a merger Mariinsky and Moscow schools.
- Feared the arrival of teachers from St. Petersburg?
- Very afraid! In the thirty-first we learned of this, in the thirty-second we have been taught by the representatives of the Mariinsky. And we have eight people, produced "The Nutcracker". This is a great achievement of our director Malinowska - amazing women from the cohort of old Bolsheviks.
Then came the thirty-seventh year - the year of terrible. People were dying by the hundreds. Cleaning the entire intelligentsia. It was awful: it takes the best people. But we young people do not know.
Then five people - Mischa Fikhtengol'ts, Busya Goldstein, Rose Tamarkin, Marina Kozolupova and I - were first presented to the Order of Honor.
- In the thirty-seventh year, and you accepted into the Komsomol?
- Yes. But, you know, the Young Communist League after taking not all.
- How do you now refer to the articles, which you are in the thirties and forties have written good words about the party, about Stalin, about the Soviet and happy life?
- You know, the party at the Bolshoi Theater was one of those people who participated in the life of the theater. Here in the Big Party Committee, was not random people - officials, clerks. We were only those people that made up the staff of the Bolshoi Theater. And all of our party organization was a strong fist, which helped us get to the very top of our power problems. I am, if you will permit me, turn to the last time. Here in Izvestia published an interview with President Putin. There were many issues the president! And no one - about the art! Not one!
By the way, I like our president, not only because he is smart, he leads the state on the way in which, I think it should go. I love it, even so, as he goes on the red carpet. How good it feels like to go! As he sits - he never waves his arms. It would seem a trifle, and talk about it is not necessary, but for me it means a lot.
- In the library STD have a whole folder of newspaper clippings, devoted to you, where are collected notes about you and your articles since 1937.
- What are you? It's unbelievable.
- They wrote that you are in a dance followed the dramatic line, could, dancing, to describe the character.
- Just for me to do a very good performances. Splendid performances! For example, "Mirandolina" came Nemirovich-Danchenko and said: "Throw the ballet, and I'll make you a dramatic theater." Of course he was joking, but I was very pleased.
- I rarely go to the ballet, but I noticed that dancers often help themselves "face" of a character - make some grimaces, depict joy, anger and other feelings.
- I think this is nonsense. I do not have to think - do not have to play a person in the dance. Facial expressions should be minimal, and it must proceed from the idea a writer and choreographer reading this plan. Within these limits - you can. A special show face - that I rejoice or grieve - it is, in my view, nonsense.
I danced with three fractures
- Once, when I danced in the "Red Poppy", my sister sat in the second row. And suddenly there was a crack, which even she had heard. She decided that burst insole ballet shoes. I continued to dance with a terrible pain. I had to finish the first act of "The Red Poppy". I almost did not realizing I got into the litter (for my happiness, coolies on the stage carried a stretcher), waved goodbye to handle and only in the wings lose consciousness. Then I was taken to the ambulance, all around - at Theater Square - singing, dancing (after all, was November holidays), but the car we went to the hospital on Granovsky Street. And when I pulled out from under the X-rays, by the smell of valerian, I realized that my business is bad. And indeed, it turned out - the three breakthrough. I danced with three fractures! At this time, before the TV sat and watched the ballerina Struchkova broadcast of "The Red Poppy". She was a spare - just in case to me that something would happen. But, she thought, what could happen with Lepeshinskaya? My face she knew: something's wrong. I immediately went to the theater. At the half-hour intermission was detained, it was dressed, made-up, and she was finishing "The Red Poppy" instead of me.
- In "Red Poppy" you danced with one party Ulanova. She could not you replace it?
- I'm always asked (I thought you and I, too, ask): "How is it that you are with a great, brilliant Ulanova danced the same party - the" Red Poppy "," Cinderella, "" The Bronze Horseman. "One asked about this Ulanova. She is very cute as she is able, spreading her hands and said: "We are so different!" In these words - her mind. She was very intelligent, and not only in ballet.
I have so many years, and I so vividly remember one of her gesture, when she saw Romeo: She looked into his face for the first time, put her hand on his heart, and the second raised to the sky. And I have more than fifty years, I remember this gesture all the details!
Beria said: "Until I hear that you do not trust the Soviet power"
- Olga, after the arrest of person close to you, the wife of Molotov, you have experienced another arrest - of your husband.
- My husband worked in the MGB - so it became known as the NKVD. He has helped our entire family when the war started, when we were transported in very difficult circumstances. I remember him with a very good feeling. It was all noble.
Shortly after he was arrested, for me came at three o'clock a man in uniform and enormous hat. He asked me to get dressed. I dressed quickly. I remember that we drove Sadovaya street Kachalova and stopped at a mansion foul play. We went. Library, large closets with books, watch great. Beria, for some reason, walked behind me, I only saw his reflection in the glass cabinet. She noticed how shiny his pince-nez in this glass. He first talked about something elite, secular asking questions like: "How to dance at the Bolshoi Theater, enough?" And then suddenly said: "Until I hear that you do not trust the Soviet government. You think we have your husband arrested unjustly." Here I turned to him, leaned on the table (because if it had not rested, probably would have fallen) and said: "Lawrence P., you're a Communist, and I am a Communist. Let's say the communists: if my husband is guilty - punished. Do not blame - let go. " And less than a year later he was released. And my husband died a natural death, he was not shot ... Life's not going in a straight line, it moves in zigzags so that you sometimes do terrible.
And he was so noble man, that, when released from prison, did not return to me, afraid to ruin my career. I'm a dancer first installment in the Grand Theater. In his hand was very noble.
When he died, I came to say goodbye to him. He asked me for forgiveness, if something wrong, and I apologized to him.
- Remember your last meeting with Stalin?
It was at the reception. A concert: Autograph, Davydova, I am someone else - do not remember. He showed us the film "Volga-Volga". He was very fond of this movie, and for all the monologues Elias repeated. These monologues are absolutely correct. I repeated all the monologues of Orloff, but then paused to listen to it carefully. We were all in love with him. He could be a very nice, and very good, but it's probably just a thought. Because at heart he was a bad man - a vengeful and angry. And what he did to the country - that history will not forgive him.
He did not know that I - Lepeshinskaya, but I did not know that he - Army General Antonov
- Will the fifty-sixth year. I remember when I came out of the hotel "Sovetskaya", where he was receiving. Rain. A machine from the Bolshoi no. I was in a frock - shaking like a leaf, was a strong, icy wind. Nearby stood a general. And he, being well-mannered man, he asked: "You do not have cars?" I say: "No". And he offered to drive me home. When he put me in the car, I have discerned. He was remarkably handsome man - were good, and beautiful face. I decided that I need to go to the country. He drove me there for about forty minutes, and I suddenly remembered that I should always be at home at this time. And I asked to drive me home! So we had time to meet and talk (laughs). So there was our acquaintance. He did not know that I - Lepeshinskaya, but I did not know that he - Army General Antonov. After the war he became Chief of General Staff of the Warsaw Pact forces. Soon we were married.
He was an amazing person, he knew French, loved the music. When he worked in the country, we quietly included Chopin or Rachmaninoff - his favorite composers. After his death, I was unable to make a dance. And I decided that it should not be. And left the scene. Life has lost all meaning. But doing nothing was even harder. And somehow, my sister remembered that one day at dinner he said that, they say, it is time to retire - and it's time, and I must go. "I'll write a book, and you - to teach children and adults!" And he did.
Unfortunately, only about seven years continued with our lives. He got a blood clot in the heart. But the surgeon did not have the courage to cut the heart. He was afraid he was a big responsibility - to make such a serious operation General Antonov.
Then I had bad eyesight. When they buried him - put him in the Kremlin wall - it was very hot. And I lost my sight completely. I saw only the black sun, and the last - as Brezhnev took a handkerchief from his pocket. And everything - the darkness. Friends of my husband drove me home. I lay for a month. Vision slowly returned.
By the way, Maya Plisetskaya in her book wrote about my two husbands! Why is my book, she told him about my husband? (Laughs). This is very funny. She just knew who they were, their names and where served, and therefore decided to write. Moreover, she notes there that I have short arms. But it's not quite true, because when taking in a ballet school, then a tape measure. But I'm doing well, as she writes, "fish" - a ballet movement with a partner.
Imagine my horror when the scene came out and started dancing eight "Lepeshinsky"
But back to my story. When I was a little better, I was sent to Italy. Supervisor there the Academy of Dance to learn about it, found me: "Please take only one class, to teach our children just a little!" And I, being half-blind, took eight girls. Capable of girls, and one was just very gifted. And in the middle of the year was a test. Can you imagine my horror when the scene came out and started dancing eight "Lepeshinsky. My style, my curtsey - all mine! I came to such a horror! It was a great lesson for me that the children's personality can never be deprived. Let it be wrong in terms of pure classical school. And then I taught the dancers in Germany, Sweden, Norway and Egypt - down to Malta. And everywhere I tried not to put out the individuality of their students, but rather to support.
When I returned home from Italy, received a letter from Walter Fayzelshtayna to help with affairs in Berlin "Komishe operas. I phoned our Minister Furtseva - the best minister of culture, which I knew. (Excluding intelligent Peter Demicheva). She was aware of all cases - literature, painting, ballet, she came to us, knowing who is the best. I survived for eighty years, all the ministers of culture, but it was the best. So, she brought me to him and asked to consent to his request to organize a ballet, because that person has moved from the Berlin sector in East Germany and West Germany headed a theater Komishe operas. And I, knowing that there is a good ballet teacher Tom Schilling, consented and arrived in Berlin.
And we together with Schilling started to recruit the company. I walked the streets and carried off his feet! Videla successful leg - missed this accident and dragged us! (Laughs). And thus was collected a very good ballet company. Unfortunately, there now everything has changed.
I wanted to pin the Order of the thigh
- Among your orders are Filipino.
- Some even tape! Once, when we celebrated the day in the Kremlin Eighth of March, it was necessary to put all the medals. Where it should be, they do not fit, I would like to pin one to the thigh, but decided that the Order on his hip - it is still too much (laughs). But his four laureatskih Order I wear. When I come to important meetings on the evening, I wore them.
I tell you what was his first Stalin Prize: when Stalin read the names of candidates for the prize - Fire, Ulanova and a third man - he struck out one of the names, will not say what, and wrote my blue pencil. So I was among the first winners of the Stalin Prize.
And when I was introduced to the title of Hero of Socialist Labor, the husband was in prison. And Heydar Aliyev, who headed the art in the Politburo, struck me. So I did not become a Hero of Labor. Ulanova and Semenov steel, and I - no.
- How do you get the icon "Voroshilovskiy shooter"?
- I got the icon along with Barsova. Lying knocked out the top ten. A standing kick ten failed us with Valeria.
- You were friends with Ranevskaya?
- Yes. She was the sun from us. When she came to our house, all at once sat around her, and began joking and wise speech. I remember once I was walking from the metro station "Smolenskaya" and fell on both knees. And suddenly I started to laugh incredible. And if I start to laugh, it is difficult to stop me! And walked towards the young man. I was laughing because he remembered how Ranevskaya told me that one day she fell in the street on both knees, unable to rise, she saw a young man held out his hands and shouted: "Young man, Lift me up! People's Artist of the street is not lying! "
She said: "I feel like an old palm tree at the station, which nobody needs, and to throw a pity." We once spent their holidays in Barvikha met there by chance. And, I must say it was the most cheerful holiday for many years, the most interesting. She told me how they once, together with Kachalov walk in the park Barvikha, in the morning mist. Suddenly Katchalov stopped - it seemed to him a voice from above. G. Faina also stopped, deciding that Katchalov mad. But he was sure that he hears a song over. And when dawn broke, she looked back and saw that the lamp sits fitter and twist the light bulb, humming some song.
Robert Sturua had no right to appear in the large "
- Golovkin allowed a newspaper to sling mud from head to toe - and corruption and bribery, why are there only was not! I wanted to reply immediately, but perhaps now it is more appropriate, because she recently died. She was an intelligent and determined woman, has done a lot for the ballet.
Tell me, how would you did if you as the head of the ballet school, came to the minister of culture, brought his daughter's hand and asked to see whether it is worthy to enter the first grade, as very much wants to dance? What would you do? And you would have, and I would have accepted it. Corruption, they say. And without these relations can not take a step in our lives. It looks like there is for corruption?
And I long ago wanted to say about Vladimir Vasiliev. Not Vasilyev was given IV Class Order of Merit to the Fatherland! Not! Who are these people who decide who to give some reward? Who are they - the people of the premium department in the Ministry of Culture, who gave Vasilyev, who above all awards, the Order of IV degree? Vasiliev approved at the Bolshoi, this man's dance. Removed all this, as they say, "blue", which we had. He updated our fine art of male dance.
He wanted to make a big theater with modern theater. He would put Bejart - very talented modernist. And Vasiliev took off for what he allowed himself, as artistic director the Bolshoi, to take a course on modernization. After all, do not touch the Tretyakov Gallery, the Hermitage is not touched - simply make exhibitions of contemporary artists, but do not destroy the main exhibition. But even if mistaken Vasiliev, detract from his talent, if not genius, can not!
Natalia Dudinskaya also given IV degree - she died! She arrived at its anniversary, not was ill, and on the scene learned that received the Order of IV degree. I came home - and died. Ambitious? Yes. Bad. But we are ambitious. But Vasiliev - young man, holding on. He now believes that big should not exist on the same principles that the State Tretyakov Gallery. It is not right. Bolshoi Theater must be immutable. And, for example, dramatic theater director Robert Sturua had no right to appear at the Bolshoi.
Why Sturua at the Bolshoi Theater makes Mazeppa? What he has the right to set age-old Russian opera? He is a talented man, I know his performances and highly appreciate it, but how it relates to the art of opera? This is indecent. Right now Ratmansky, a young man, made the head of the ballet. He put a very nice Large skit - "The Bright Stream. Actors love to dance, but this skit, but not a performance of the Bolshoi Theater.
- You do not like the play?
- It's nice, but the little thing. But at the Bolshoi Theater can not hold on cabbage. Ratmansky said in a very good phrase, that his ballets at the Bolshoi Theater set will not. Done! That's it for this I really praise. He is a professional, but as far as I know, still operates in Denmark. (In Denmark, Alexei Ratmansky is not working. - "The News".)
- Is there anything in the Bolshoi Theater in recent years like?
- I'm there for a long time was not and saw not all. It's a pity that there are brilliant performances, which I knew - "Red Poppy" no, "The Bronze Horseman" no ...
You know, I'm not a fan of modern dance. But Eifman managed in their modern dance invest meaning. And they are all based on classical ballet.
- What do you think about Volochkova?
- I do not know her and know I do not want. Never seen her and did not see it. Because everything connected with it, is scandalous flavor. I will not tolerate.
"When a sick boy was delirious, Ulanova was sitting beside him and held his hand
- When you feel sad, as you remember to change the mood?
- When I am wrong, I remember Ulanova.
The last two and a half years, when she was left alone, we were very close. She died in solitude. And although they say from the Museum Bakhrushina that they were with her that she was not left alone, - nonsense. We talked with her for hours on the phone. When she was in the theater, I went there just to say a few words, take her home. End of life she had, I think, very hard.
-What subjects do you most often discussed during these telephone conversations?
- She told me a lot about his childhood. Her father was a hunter. Once he took her out hunting with him. She noted that before he went hunting in her room, and something took. And then she saw that her favorite duck out of papier-mache dad uses a decoy. "After that I never in my father did not go hunting" - said Ulanova. Ulanova, too, as I was his parents conceived a boy, but turned the girl.
She told me another story. One of her husbands, as is known, was director Yuri Zavadsky. He, incidentally, came to a performance of Giselle, where she danced, and wept. And during the war, invited her to Alma-Ata, where he was evacuated. Because in Molotov, where she lived when she was very hungry. She came and fell ill with typhus. She put in a ward for children. There lay a boy with acute fever, and all night he uttered one word: "Mama." At night, when he was delirious, she sat beside him and holding his hand. In the morning, made of paper doves and all day let them fly around the room.
- Since it was difficult to communicate?
- Probably, but I was not with her difficult. After all we had, so to speak, in the same pool swimming. (Laughs) But, of course, in her last years the Bolshoi has not found use for her talent. And love is not found.
- She has remained an insult to the Bolshoi Theater?
- We were on the first floor of the bench on which sat the people from the orchestra, mimansa, costume. Then one day she told me: "Before I entered, and people stood up and said:" Hello, Galina! "And now I'm trying to quickly sneak past the benches." So, something she was hurt.
- You do not see the candidates in today's Bolshoi Theater, which could develop the arts in a direction that seems right to you?
- Even if you can see, I did not ask.
http://www.izvestia.ru/person/article52598/
09.02.2009, 00:22
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