his portrait, painted by dasha fursey, is kept in france in a castle, in the artist’s workshop on tchaikovskytreet, an unusual autograph of the winemaker made with wine, hand and foot prints, screen stars. the reverent attitude of the residents of the bar capital of russia to alcohol has been written and spoken about, but here they also know how to appreciate unopened bottles. my great-grandfather, who had already left the family quite a long time ago, he was visiting his daughter, my grandmother, and he brought two bottles of champagne, he and my grandmother drank one, and he said, i want to live to be 100 years old, he was 75 or 76 years old. him to a trolleybus stop and there his heart stopped, in general, he died at this stop, and my grandmother kept this bottle, such a memento sea, some reminder that making plans is such a precipitate activity. in different and almost always difficult times, people here knew how to eat and pray, and certainly love; maybe not everyone was able to do both equally easily and third, but if it worked, then for real. here on the spit of vasilyevsky island you