Nothing Else, Russia

7 hrs. 58 min.

Miscellaneous

Language Russian

Author Tatyana Moskvina

Narrator Larisa Luganskaya

Description

“What a Russia!” is a new book by the widely known writer, publicist, and theater and film critic Tatyana Moskvina. It brings together articles, reviews, and essays written by Moskvina in 2006–2007 and published in the newspaper “Argumenty Nedeli” and in the journals “Iskusstvo Kino” (“Art of Cinema”), “Peterburgsky Teatralny Zhurnal” (“St. Petersburg Theatrical Journal”), “Sobaka.ru,” and “Russkaya Zhizn” (“Russian Life”).

Contents:
Part 1. Tidbit. An aperitif
“S” as a dollar
Yes, I’m jealous!
What kind of bird is this
They’ve gotten completely lazy
Herbarium for girls
Peculiarities of the Russian mind
Time as money
Beauty is…
With their sides
Doggy cosmos
Parodies
The coolest
In 2006 I realized that…
Little tricks of a big crowd
You are the only one
Part 2. First course – soup and one hundred grams
What a Russia!
Part 1
Part 2
Everyone is pitiful
Dr. Arabova
A historic procession
Menshikova has to be ruined
Russians have overstrained themselves
God was called Pasternak
There’s a costume—there’s not a body yet
A happy theater of Donna Bella
A masquerade of a stone girl
The resurrection of the hero
The hare turned out to be good and sad
War and a little pig
A truce
Balabanov’s spasms
Galya Sokolova storms the sky
Once again, grief from too much mind
Another Alla
Our sister
A cruel theater of fate
Peasant Faust
And happiness was so possible!
For what purpose?
Prouds of the Holy Spirit
A group portrait with three truths
He knew a lot about the Russian person
Marshal of the arts
Brother Andrei
Big problems, Alexandrinsky and Mariinsky
Part 3. Second course and another hundred, please
After the ball
Portraying a film director
The mystery of Kirill Serebrennikov
The mystery of Mr. Serebrennikov revealed
We found ways to surprise!
Criminal Russia in curls and a corset
Ermi-Cola is already on sale
A little fairy tale for the miserable
“Readers-writers”: let’s play
Poor Pushkin. And Bondarchuk too
Grisha—the scoundrel
A cheerful deception
Birdie Borya and her sounds
A positive Tanya
An elf’s smile
Naked and angry
Mura-2007
A boring wizard
A deadly autumn
Poor princess
The fate of an actor inspires anxiety
Part 4. Dessert. Tea, coffee
Once upon a time in St. Petersburg, or the chronicle of plunging democracy
How New Russia swept away New Holland
Because she loved her husband
The Führer of beauty
Rise and fall of a criminal TV series
Foreword
Definition
Stages of development
Beginning
Rising
Decadence
Leisure of little people
Gentlemen, scoot over!—And gentlemen don’t think of moving
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