[000:00:00;00] but i mentioned this fact casually, because i was sure that they were talking about him from every corner, as they say now, during the conversation, it turned out that he not only had not heard about this fact, but he did not know who he was andrei rublev and that there is an icon of the trinity. it seems to me that this is a consequence of the fact that he is in this shell of his, he has these micro-macro, there influencers and imagers don’t get to him. vladimir romanovich, you are both right and wrong, because youth, youth always exist. has a slightly different level of interest and many studies have shown that after young people come to work, become more established professionals and citizens , take part in elections, earn money, they begin to be interested in the public agenda, so i think that after all

, television, for now we live here. while our podcast is airing on channel one, everyone is watching it and will watch it and will watch it, and even children will compare some of their ideas about reality with television or television programs, they they will watch online, but these will be television programs, and today we gathered our thoughts about what journalism is, what and how journalists are trained, elena vartanova, yaroslav skvartsov, i am vladimir lego. and we continue, let's take the era before the internet, when not all irons were talking, so i remember from literature from personal experience such situations when, for example, in some family, in some community they could say, forgive me, please, but a person who has not read the book, he does not enter this house until you read it, not meet this author, this artist

, let’s not continue our... conversations, it was this very fragmentation according to how sociologists say the system is alien, but here we are a group, they are a group, thanks to these very irons , which spoke to the era of the internet, now the spread has become instantaneous, that is, before you had to come to this society , go in, be let in, now there is a feeling of accessibility, especially something that young people easily fall for, but you know how from the series i was not found in search engine, it means it’s not in nature. maybe you sent the wrong request, or didn’t go further than the tenth, yes , absolutely right, yes, so look, these same, as you said, talking irons, they create a certain feeling of the general background, it seems to me that the most serious influence the internet not only on media, but on our lives in general, this feeling of lightness and accessibility, and deceptive, deceptive, when it seems, so here they are, this is what

you had to spend so much time for. i understand that this is such an endless conversation, we everyone here immediately lights up, but still the information field is really seriously changing , so we teach students the rules of three sources, but listen, in practice, let’s be honest, here’s a journalist, he has a dilemma, to be the first without double-checking, yeah, or publish, and then apologize, and i didn’t come up with this now, this is not a hypothetical situation, i remember how one federal media outlet cleverly with a link, yes a respected media outlet, reported there about the death of a cultural figure who did not die, but they, because they wrote that a blogger reported this, then in in general, they were legally protected, but the blogger reported, reported, then they also apologized to their wife, who said that guys, stop, you know, these are these, this is, we constantly find ourselves in situations like this, yes, if everything

- after all, a journalist is obliged to check the facts in a classic information field, then today we got everything, when a reader, here’s another real example , we had one big church event, one television big boss called me and said: volodya, i just read it in the news agency federal about this, that, that, that, well, related to our event, if you confirm, i will broadcast it, can you imagine that 20 years ago, someone would have said that, that the agency wrote, and the person double-checked, but it was impossible, i was listening to you now , look, don’t you think that there are two problems that overlap very closely with each other, the first is the advent of the internet and the ensuing consequences, the second is commercialization, as you rightly said, so i’ll be the first, ho, so i’m hype, i got it, sometimes it’s a question of work, as one colleague told me, the chief told me, here’s the publication, that either there i don’t remember now 100,000 rewards a day, or we’re

closing your editorial office, thematic one. at the very beginning of this story, you touched on a very interesting topic concerning. beatles, yes, look how interesting, uh, as far as i remember , the most published, replicated composer in the world, if i may be wrong, i didn’t look at the latest measurements, but in my opinion, this is one of the beatles, wait, this means that all the world classics, they are somewhere overboard, look, speed , and halo distribution, citations, background mentions, everything else and some bases, things, that’s how they are leveled out, you and i know very well that there is like a european school, an american school, we get into a fight, if we have to apologize later, we will apologize, the concept of respectability, the same financial times, it’s scary to imagine that i will

apologize for the mistake i made, as my editor-in-chief said, not the main thing write first, the main thing is to write on time, but this is very wise, but today we have such formats as supplemented news - okay, but corrected news, but this, unfortunately, we will have to collect our thoughts, probably more than one once again, i have one last question for you, i would like to ask you to dissuade a person who is going to become a journalist, that is , turn to him and tell him that you don’t need to become a journalist if you are, and then, as you want. don't want fame, don't you want big money, you don’t want popularity, you don’t want to live in a rush all the time, in some kind of movement all the time, you don’t want to be

in the center of events all the time, don’t go into journalism, thank you, you’re not interested in what’s happening next door streets, on the outskirts of your city, in a neighboring city, in a neighboring republic, in a neighboring... on another continent, you don’t care, you can live without news for a day, or two, or a week, uh, that juice is enough for you, in which you are stewing, and you have nothing to share with others, you are not interested in the world, and you are not interesting to the world, don’t go into journalism, thank you, dear friends, dear applicants, their parents, it was a brilliant master class, thank you very much, elena leonidna vartanova. yaroslavich, i ’m vladimir legoyeda, we were gathering our thoughts about what journalism is, what and how to teach journalists, thank you,

see you again. hello, my name is alexey varlamov, i am a writer and rector. institute, today we will have a podcast dedicated to alexei nikolaevich tolstoy. alexey tolstoy is one of the most amazing, exciting, paradoxical figures in the history of russian literature. there is an anecdote about him that somewhere in the late twenties, early thirties, his house in tsarskoye selo, in the children's village, it was called, the footman comes and says: your excellency, it's time for a party meeting. in fact, there is something wrong with this anecdote. alexei tolstoy was never a communist and did not attend any party meetings. but nevertheless, the dizzying fate of this man, who immediately after the revolution was the harshest

critic of the bolsheviks, who, according to according to bunin’s testimony, he offered to gouge out their eyes with a rusty bayonet, and a few years later he made such a dizzying feast , became one of the most orthodox soviet writers, became the leader of socialist realism, this biography still causes controversy, and the most important question is, is he really tolstoy’s grave, and he is really fat, is a man with such a name, with such a title , capable of such treachery, i must say that when the young guard publishing house offered me to write a biography of alexei tolstoy, i had a very negative attitude towards this idea, i was extremely unsympathetic to this character, but then i... for myself , i decided that my job was to carry out what was offered to me, then i felt like a professional writer for the first time, here is a hero, write about everything you want in it, i was sure that it would be such a satirical pamphlet

, that it would be such a session of exposure, i even heard it like that all the time, and the lines of boris chichebabin, a wonderful poet who wrote like this, i feel a candle with melancholy, i it's a pity scoundrels, like... such a scoundrel alexey tolstoy. and then there is an excellent one, for those who haven’t read it, i highly recommend reading the memoir of ivan alekseevich bunin, which is called. the third is fat, in it my hero is also shown, well, very impartially, very eronically, bunin himself begins with the same topic: was he a fat count? but he never talked about his father, for bunin it was very strange, how can a count, how can a russian aristocrat not be proud of his pedigree and not tell about your ancestors, because well, this is such an obligatory part of the biography of history... of every russian nobleman. in fact

, the story of the origin of alexei tolstoy, the appearance of his light, it is worthy of a separate novel. this means that his father, whose name was nikolai aleksandrovich tolstoy, was really a count, i must say that everyone is fat, all the counts are all relatives. he was a military man, but very passionate, with such hooligan behavior that for all his tricks he was kicked out of the guard for living in st. petersburg and he went home, which means to the volga, to his hometown of samara, and there in samara this violent landowner met a girl whose last name was turgeneva, she was not in any kindred relationship with ivan sergegevich turgeev, but nevertheless tolstoy and turgeneva, they united, it was an explosive mixture, she was like that, not even a turgenev girl, such a super russian idealist who married this hooligan. scandalous, because she wanted to fix him, such a marriage, a noble,

great deed, such a sacrifice from her on the other hand, nothing came of it, because the count continued to behave in the same scandalous manner, but nevertheless they lived together, they had children, and then the countess’s literary talent awoke, she began to write poetry, she became write prose, her husband treated this arrogantly and mockingly, she did not find any understanding in the family. and then she had a dear friend, whose name was alexei apollonovich bastrom, he was from the russified swedes, and he was not even a nobleman, he was such a landowner-single-lord, in today's language a farmer, he had a small farm in the volga region, but periodically he came to samara, somewhere at some literary meeting, literary seminar, which were there then, he met this young writing woman, they first had a spiritual

a novel, they both loved literature and could talk for hours about poetry and prose, then this novel turned into such a more serious relationship at some point alexandra leontyevna, she was such an impetuous, brave, desperate girl, she simply left her husband, left her children and left to alexey palonovich, it must be said that in this situation , count nikolai alexandrovich tolstoy, her husband, the father of her children, behaved unexpectedly nobly. he took all the blame for what happened on himself, that here he was such a stormy person, he only caused her suffering, he began to beg her to come back, the children were crying, he was sad without her, and he promised her two things: the first thing he promised her, that he will publish her novel the restless heart for his own money, second, that she will return home only as the mother of her

children, but not as the wife of her husband. she's with it agreed and returned, and then it turned out that the count fulfilled the first part of his promise, the novel was published and scolded by the criticism department of the journal otechestvennye zapiski, and as for the second part, the count could not fulfill it, he loved his wife very much, and what happened next , if you remember the novel the saga of forsyte sources, there is a similar situation , there is such a not very nice character named soames, he has... a beautiful wife, whose name is irene, irene also has a problem, which means roman, a lover, then at some point, soames, as it is said, uguorse entered his wife's bedroom and restored ownership of her. something similar happened in samara in 1882, and this is how the future soviet classic was conceived, that is , the future writer was born, to call a spade a spade, as a result of... marital rape. after this, the countess left

the house, left the house and discovered that she was pregnant. and she wrote to bostrom that - take me to you, if you accept me, we will live together happily, if not, i will understand you. ah, nobility competed with nobility, he accepted her, they began to live, get along, make good, on his farm in the volga region, where alexey actually is. nikolaevich was born. and the most interesting thing, in the story of his childhood, his growing up , his youth, is that until the age of 13-14 he knew nothing about it, that is, he... just grew up on this farm with peasant boys, with peasant girls , and he later said, and quite rightly said, that if none of this had happened, he would not have turned out to be the writer he became, and this is the honest truth, but the problem was that the child did not have any documents, that is, he had a metric

certificate, which was nevertheless issued after his birth, and when he was baptized, naturally, but further in order to a noble child... to school, to a gymnasium, he had to have a document proving membership in the nobility, which was issued by the noble assembly, and here the countess, when she became concerned about this problem, she was faced with the insurmountable circumstances that count nikolai alexandrovich tolstoy, her ex-husband is the father of the child, he categorically refused to acknowledge the boy that he had no other children except those who were born before and the situation was a dead end, the situation was generally unclear what to do, and alexandra leontyevna thought that then maybe the child will be recognized by her second husband , by the way, he was not her legal husband, because after the divorce, she remained in eternal celibacy, such were the laws of the russian empire, in this

regard, if spouses were divorced for reasons adulterer, adultery, then the one of the spouses who was not guilty of adultery ... could marry or be remarried a second time, and the one who was guilty remained in eternal celibacy, since she was guilty, she therefore remained so and her - the marriage with bastrom was purely civil in nature, but she nevertheless still thought that maybe the child would be adopted by bastrom, but bastrom was not a nobleman, and she, despite all her democratic beliefs, she still believed that it was better than her son will be earl and earl fat. in the end, i won’t bore you with the details, she managed to achieve this and at the age of 17-18 alexey nikolaevich acquired a surname, acquired the title of count, but why am i dwelling on this story, because there was no other count in history who had a christian childhood, who had this experience, this is the very case when a child from rags to riches, such a pawn that became

a queen, he graduates from an engineering institute, i don’t remember the exact name, maybe a mining institute, in general some kind of technical he graduated from the institute in st. petersburg and receives a respectable technical profession, and he is an engineer, but his soul does not lie in the exact sciences, his soul does not lie in technology, he hesitates between painting and poetry, begins as a poet, and when he shows his poems as a poet, they say it’s better for him to paint, when he shows his paintings to artists, they send him to the poetry workshop and say, it’s better to write poetry, but he was very stubborn, he was very strong-willed. he really knew how to learn , gradually he begins to make literary a career which, by the way, is promoted by his very open, very sociable, and wonderful character, which allows him to make profitable acquaintances and friends in the literary environment, of course, if he

had no talent, only skills, with whom to make friends, nothing would not have come out of him, but nevertheless, here is that very happy occasion when writing... talent, poetic talent, dramatic talent, he was famous and rich in all of this, is complemented by this excellent knowledge of human nature, the ability to build his own relations with the outside world, and let’s say, among his friends were voloshin and gomilev, who subsequently staged a duel, and alexei tolstoy in this duel was a second on voloshin’s side, he saw his task in taking long strides, which means marking... as much as possible greater distance between them, so that god forbid they don’t hit each other, but they didn’t hit. gomilyov missed, voloshin did not shoot, but why am i still telling about this story, because a few months later, alexey tolstoy will have a wedding gomelev and akhmatova, that is, his ability to be friends with a variety of people - this

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or a citizen of tolstoy, this dexterity also, of course, reflects his character, but the october revolution also takes place, which in moscow took place much more brutally bloody than in petrograd, there was such a real civil war, it must be said that tolstoy weakened everything unnecessary everything sick everything unnecessary. such forest orderlies who will play their role will leave, and then a strong, powerful russia will develop and move forward, so i say, when the revolution happened, at first he took such a wait-and-see attitude, unlike his friend ivan bunin, they really are very were friends and were neighbors in moscow, if bunin took such a categorical position of rejection of soviet power, bolshevism, damned days, then for tolstoy the conflict with the bolsheviks begins in february 1918, when for the sake of to save the revolution and for the sake of saving his own skin, lenin concludes an obscene,

as he himself called, brez peace with the germans. this is the point of no return for tolstoy, this is something that he cannot forgive the bolsheviks, because in his eyes this is a betrayal of the national interests of russia and this is a very important thing for him. returning to bunin's memoirs, bunin portrays tolstoy as a person. absolutely unprincipled, talented, talented with his belly, this is the definition of fedor salagub, and bunin, in general, is absolutely with him i agree, this sanguine person, this epicurean, this person for whom the main thing in life is to have fun , cannot have any ideas from bunin’s point of view, this is not so, alexei tolstoy, of course, had ideas, and his main idea is this is really a patriotic idea, this is really a state idea, that’s why he didn’t like nicholas ii, believing that he did not correspond to the role that a russian sovereign should play, that’s why he hated lenin, when he saw this

with the stroke of a pen, they gave away hundreds of thousands , there tens of thousands of square kilometers of russian territory, which was watered with blood, for which millions of russian soldiers gave their lives , during the first world war, just take it and give it away, he could not forgive the bolsheviks for this, from that moment his acute and... ideological conflict with the bolshevik authorities, in fact, this is the reason that in 1918, together with his family, he leaves, leaves soviet russia, finds himself first in ukraine, first in kharkov, then in odessa, then one of the first russians emigrants, from odessa, he goes to constantinople and then ends up in paris, and in fact, why this story is still very important, because he describes - in one of his works, in tolstoy’s diaries, memories of him, there is this

path of russian emigrants , who from odessa go to constantinople, the bitter path, russian... exiles, losers of their country, losers of history, go into exile, they cry, they pray, they drink, they suffer, they play cards, which is what alexei tolstoy does, he works, he sits on a typewriter and writes, this, by the way, also reflects his powerful , mighty character, he, you know, sometimes reminds me of scarlett o haharu from the novel by margaret mitchell, by the way, the parallel is not without meaning, because of course, what happened in russia in the seventeenth year is partly similar to what happened then in america, but this is the death, the collapse of the old world, the birth of a new civilization and a strong man, as you remember, with carly tohara says: “my family will never go hungry” . this is very important for alexei tolstoy, so that no matter what, my family will not starve, and he always had a big family, he had

children, he had one wife, then another wife, well, he really was very good. a good, very loyal family man, and the interests of the family were very important to him. so, he first finds himself in constantinople, then he finds himself in marseille, then in paris , and in fact, alexei tolstoy is one of the first representatives of the first wave of russian emigration, and he creates, in fact, the first major work of this famous future russian literature abroad, yes that there will be bunin, aldanov, merishkovsky, hypius, nabokov, gazdanov. it all started with alexei tolstoy’s story nikita’s childhood, an absolutely wonderful story, which, by the way, describes his very peasant childhood on a trans-volga farm in sosnovka, why he wrote this story, because one day his little son nikita, and the father, and the future father of the writer tatyana nikitishna tolstoy, yes, this is also such

a powerful tolstoy root in the history of russian literature, which continues. so, nikita didn’t know what a snowdrift like this was snowdrift, and he wrote a story about childhood, about winter, about snowdrifts, about stars, about happiness , about an estate, about the people who live there, just a cool story, so that russian children who are temporarily in exile, he never considered himself the emigrant always believed that this would all end quickly, they would return to their homeland, so that the children who arrived in their homeland would recognize it, so that they would not lose their russianness, would not lose... this sense of their homeland, writes this wonderful story about nikita’s childhood . and then, as we know, events in russian the stories went differently than everyone expected, it was not the whites, with whom alexei tolstoy sympathized, and many russian emigrants who won, but the reds who won, and of course, for the majority of emigrants, it became a national catastrophe, it became a personal catastrophe

that caused horror, hatred, tears, despair. i crave a place, anything, but there was a small number of people, not very large, and alexey tolstoy was one of them, who looked at things a little differently, and what was especially important for our count was that he saw that these people suddenly began to restore the country, yes, they began to return, albeit not completely, but nevertheless, they began to return these lost territories of the russian empire, and there began to arise, began to be born... a new country, it was a foreign country , like most emigrants, he was absolutely never keen on any communist or soviet ideas there, never sympathized with lenin, and so on, but nevertheless, a country arose there. and here two points seem to be important, the first point is is that he really psychologically could not

be an emigrant, the second very important point is this dispute that arose - russian emigration at the very beginning of 1921, because as we all remember, especially those of us who studied the history of the cpsu in the soviet years, today's students, maybe a little worse, remember this whole story, in 1921 in russia there was a so-called kronstadt rebellion, the kronstadt uprising, it was an extremely dangerous uprising for the bolsheviks, because they rose up against not... some half-baked nobles, merchants, white guards, popes, and so on, but their sailor brothers rose up, with very dangerous slogans for the bolsheviks for soviet power without communists, for advice without communists. and if the soviet government had not yet become boring, moreover, well, how beautiful are the advice, the russian word, then the communists were already

there, so lenin, a brilliantly smart person, of course, a politician, he understood well that, oh, this slogan maybe like a virus, yes, the whole country will embrace the whole country, the whole country will rise up against the bolsheviks and overthrow them, therefore, by the way, lenin, he... brutally suppressed, brutally suppressed the konshtat uprising, but after that the policy immediately changed, the internal policy of the soviet state, the surplus appropriation system was abolished , in fact, nep began, a new economic policy and a new page in the history of soviet russia, which helped lenin, like the brest peace once, save the revolution, save the young republic, but this became obvious later, then, at that moment, when the sailors in konstatt rebelled. then russian migrants who carefully, they are also like he, they dreamed of returning, dreamed of revenge, they closely followed what was happening in russia at home, so

they began to think how they could help this rebel people, so conversations began among the emigrants that it was necessary to invite the entente , it is necessary to invite england, france, and the united states of america there so that they can intervene again in this russian situation. they helped throw the bolsheviks into this internal russian conflict, but again, as rational and sober-minded people, they understood that just like that, no entente, no england and france will help , they need to pay with something, which the russian migrants sitting in paris, beggars, poor russian migrants can pay, they are the only ones who can pay, they can promise, well, for example, give odessa to the french, and give it to the british... to promise vladivostok to the americans, they were not national traitors, they understood perfectly well that this was a very cruel price, but there were two evils, one evil was the bolsheviks, the other evil was

territorial concessions, that’s for in order to to overthrow the bolsheviks, we had to go and pay this price, not forever, then we’ll come to an agreement, then we’ll return it, but now the situation is hopeless and in order to... the course of russian history, it is necessary to do this. and the divergence of alexei tolstoy with the russian emigration begins precisely at this moment, when he hears these conversations, because he catches in them the familiar notes of the brez world, to trade russian land for the sake of his political interests, no matter what, red or white, bolshevik or anti-bolshevik. russian land for alexey tolstoy is a shrine, it is not allowed. sell it, it cannot be ceded, it cannot be given to anyone. and then this very conflict began, as a result

of which he split from the russian emigration and moved from paris to berlin, why to berlin, because berlin, germany, in which, as we know, means in 1918 after the defeat... in the first world war , its own revolution took place, the kaiser was overthrown, and so germany became the first country that, precisely in 1921, when it became generally clear to everyone that the soviet power survived, strengthened, germany entered into first trade, then diplomatic relations with the soviet union and germany, berlin became a city where both white and red russians met, because entire districts ... of berlin, emigrants lived there, at the same time, soviet writers, soviet writers, yesenin and mayakovsky, andrei bely, and many others, they came to berlin, and berlin became such a bridge

between emigration, it was there that alexey tolstoy went, it was there that he began to publish the famous newspaper the day before, which means the newspaper the day before - it was such a brilliant, cunning project, which was to introduce... propaganda to influence the consciousness of russian emigrants, why was this important? because, well, now we, at the very least, i can say about myself, perceive russian immigration, so very romantically, very idealistically, here are russians in exile, created the greatest masterpieces of literature, culture, science, technology, this is all true, but this is not the whole truth, but the first, especially the first years of emigration, they were painful complex, when... people with an excellent education could not find something to do, when graffines went, well, not as prostitutes, but as servants, when officers had to become lackeys and waiters,

we remember all this, there in bulgakov, for example, in beck's play, they had a difficult situation, and the soviet government had its own task, because the civil war, emigration knocked out qualified personnel, drove out specialists, doctors, the government was interested in bringing them back, so the newspaper was just conceived the day before the kremlin, as a seemingly independent newspaper, but which showed successes and achievements. at least the absence of war and terror on the territory of soviet russia and it had a literary application, which was headed by alexei tolstoy, and he saw his task as publishing those writers who were in exile in paris or somewhere else, and those who were in soviet russia, that is, he really wanted to unite them, this has always been characteristic of him, to unite, to try on - the most

different sides, that’s when he begins publish this newspaper, then at that moment the immigration rebelled against him, because everyone was not fools, everyone understood perfectly well what he was against, what he was aimed at, everyone understood that he was, as it were, corrupting the russian emigration, and other people could follow his path , so it was the emigrants who told him, it was they who said, no, it was they who banned other emigrant writing, well, there was their own union of writers in exile, so to speak, it was they who said whoever was published in this newspaper would be damned, so in the end, in in general, nothing really came of this project, but why else is it very important , why do i remember bunin all the time, because in fact, a very important ideological dispute began between alexei tolstoy and ivan alekseevich bunin, which is related to the history of russia. alexey tolstoy explained his position very simply: there was a civil war. my sympathies were on the side of the whites, but the reds won, this is the choice of my people, the right choice, this is

the wrong choice, it’s not for me to decide, i’m russian man, i do not want and will not live in exile, and i am returning my country , to which we are all guilty, that we plunged it into the abyss of this russian troubles, and i urge you, brothers and sisters, to return with me and this shabby storms, a damaged russian ship, cry out for new life. it’s very interesting that when this was published in this same newspaper the day before , news in moscow was reprinted in the newspaper, when such a letter, its manifesto was published, at that moment, bunin and mereshkovsky received a scholarship from the french government, so that god forbid they did not return, so that god forbid they did not follow the path of alexei tolstoy, i think they would, however, even without this scholarship they would not have followed anywhere, because bunin, of course,

of what is happening in soviet russia and here is the dispute between bunin and tolstoy, it is really very important, bunin will subsequently write such a brilliant article called the mission of russian emigration, in this article bunin will actually determine, express what is the meaning of what happened in russia and the meaning is that russia no longer exists, the entity that arose on this territory is not russia. for bunin, the last straw was the renaming of petrograd to leningrad, that’s how bunin wrote in this article, it was possible to endure batu, batu khan, the tatar-mongol invasion, but you can’t accept lenin, that’s why there is no more russia, soviet russia is axumaron, that ’s it , which cannot be, if soviet, then not russia, real russia is either in exile and, as it were, the spirit of this real russia

keep russian. emigrants, or like the city of kitish, it sank to the bottom, is somewhere deep underground, so budin does not accept either the soviet calendar or soviet spelling, i’m not even talking about soviet ideas, of course, as for alexei tolstoy, it’s strange for him this bunin thought sounds, russia is no more, what is no more, but where is it going, and the people who live there, who speak russian, and these are russian, russian sky, russian land. russian faces, children who are born there, who are they? and so - this dispute, this is what, how to treat russia, what to consider as your homeland, it really is such an important dispute, in