Meetings in the Waiting Room. Memories of Bulat

11 hrs. 34 min.

Narrator Vyacheslav Gerasimov

Description

“Meetings in the Waiting Room” is the first book entirely made up of recollections about Bulat Shalvovich Okudzhava.
Its authors are completely different people: writers, poets, literary scholars, musicians, artists, film people—people who are not especially familiar with one another, yet are united by their love for the person to whom the book is dedicated.
Everything written by them was subject to no “censorship,” despite the fact that their impressions, descriptions of events, and evaluations differ and at times conflict.
As Bulat Okudzhava wrote:
…Everyone writes as they hear,
everyone hears as they breathe,
as they breathe, so they write,
ot trying to please…
The editorial board had only one selection criterion: how would Okudzhava himself have treated this publication? That is why some articles sent to the editorial office were not included in this book.

Contents:

FROM THE LAST BOOK TO THE FIRST. Introduction
CHRONICLE OF LIFE AND WORK. Compilers M. R. Gizatulin, V. Sh. Yurovsky
FROM THE EDITORIAL BOARD
Isaak Schwartz. WE WERE LIKE BROTHERS
Vladimir Motyl. ABOUT BULAT OKUDZHAVA
Yevgeny Yevtushenko. “COME IN—AT MY PLACE THERE ARE JONDZHOLI”
Petr Todorovsky. WE WORKED AND WERE HAPPY
Galina Kornilova. BULAT
Aleksei Smirnov. A LITTLE SONG ABOUT ACCIDENTAL JOY
Lev Shilov. FROM THE NOTES OF A SOUND ARCHIVIST
Yuliy Kim. SPRING 94
Tatyana and Sergei Nikitins. “WHAT ARE WE SUPPOSED TO BE ON ‘YOU,’ WHAT ARE WE…?”
Konstantin Vanshenkin. “HELLO, THIS IS BULAT”
Lazar Shereśhevskiy. “WITH A GUITAR UNDER A COAT…”[13]
Valentin Oskotsky. ABOUT FIRST LOVE, AND NOT ONLY ABOUT IT[15]
Anatoly Pristavkin. OUR LITTLE HOLIDAYS IN GERMANY
Stanislav Rassadin. BULAT’S ARCHIPELAGO
Naum Korzhavin. BULAT MANAGED THAT[23]
Fazil Iskander. “HIS BEST SONGS WILL BE SUNG…”
Konstantin Shilov. TATIANA GRIGORIEVNA, ALEXANDER SERGEEVICH, AND BULAT SHALVOVICH
Yevgeny Rein. “GIVE ME THIS SIZE”[25]
Vladimir Frumkin. “BETWEEN HAPPINESS AND MISFORTUNE…”
Cергей Авакян. PORTRAIT IN A DIVINE ALLEY
Vladimir Spivakov. A DILETTANTE’S TRIP
Sati Spivakova. NOT A MEETING WITH BULAT
Alexander Polovets. FROM A BOOK ABOUT BULAT. GOD BLESS AMERICA. (Beginning of a cult American song)
Ilya Medovoy. THE LAST JOURNEY. A GIFT ON HIS BIRTHDAY…
Anatoly Gladilin. OKUDZHAVA IN PARIS. Chronicle of the last days
Lazar Lazarev. “AND YOU AND I, BROTHER, FROM THE INFANTRY…” From the book “They leave, they leave, they leave… Friends…”
Marat Gizatulin. SWEDISH “SISTER” OF BULAT OKUDZHAVA