We have only one road for young people – Newspaper Kommersant No. 56 (7501) dated 04/03/2023

Last week, on the day of the Theater, the Moscow Art Theater for the first time presented its own award, established on the occasion of the 125th anniversary of the theater. For a long time, the only theater with its own award was the Gogol Center, then the artistic director of the Theater of Nations Yevgeny Mironov took the initiative, establishing the Korsh Prize. For well-known reasons, no one will receive the HC Prize, which means that the Moscow Art Theater Prize was supposed to restore the livestock. But no. If the previous awards were turned inside the theater itself – the awards were received by artists, directors, workshops, partners, then the Moscow Art Theater decided to encourage young talents from various fields of art. However, Konstantin Khabensky handed the first statuette to the artist of the Moscow Art Theater Stanislav Lyubshin, explaining that this was his own decision and this particular award was presented in the No Comments nomination. But other awards were distributed, it seems, by the decision of one particular person, since each member of the jury was responsible for his direction. Fyodor Bondarchuk for cinema, Svetlana Zakharova for ballet, Alisa Prudnikova for contemporary art. In the latter case, the jury member came to the conclusion that none of the nominees performed brightly enough, and the prize was not awarded. Otherwise, well, a logical award after many previously awarded figures in cinema, theater, ballet, classical music removed from their seats during the year … Not everyone, as we remember, did it voluntarily. Mr. Khabensky was forced to fire, for example, the People’s Artist of the Russian Federation Dmitry Nazarov. The letter of resignation from Sovremennik was written by Liya Akhedzhakova. And now it sounded, it seems, such a not very veiled “we do not have indispensable”, or even “we are giving birth to new ones”. As Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova said in her welcoming speech: “You and I, cultural figures, have the responsibility, with our images that you create, to influence the characters of people, to educate young people. And you can convey to our people, to young people, eternal values: friendship and love, decency and honesty, loyalty and devotion to our state. And for this talent of yours, I want to sincerely thank you.” After such a concretization of possible talents, Mr. Khabensky’s act, which opened and closed a short ceremony about the conventionality and surmountability of life’s limits, did not look quite convincing, to be honest: the limits were indicated as specifically as possible.

The rest of the award was good, sincere, comfortable. It turned out to be a video with Leonid Yuzefovich, who reminded young writers that “literature should not glorify power, strength and violence.” Actor Alexander Petrov was looking for a foothold in everyone he met. Svetlana Khodchenkova wore Bulgari jewelry, Svetlana Zakharova wore Mercury, Olga Lyubimova wore Pasquale Bruni, more modest but her own. Mr. Bondarchuk was sitting in the stalls, while his wife Paulina Andreeva, an actress of the Moscow Art Theater, went to the gallery with her colleagues.

But the couple did not part on Thursday evening. The second time they act as a creative tandem, and not in the classical combination of an actress-director, but in a more sophisticated version: a director and a screenwriter. If in the previous experience, the TV series “Psych”, the couple explored the manic attachments and hysterical attachments of typical middle-class Muscovites, now the area of ​​study has narrowed to theatrical and cinema behind the scenes. The series is called “Actresses”. Marusya Fomina with Alexei Kiselev, Svetlana Ivanova with Dzhanik Faiziev, Maria Shumakova, Lyubov Tolkalina decided to look into the mirror of the first three episodes that were shown at the premiere in October. Alexander Petrov relied on Klim Shipenko that evening.

And in the restaurant of the GES-2 House of Culture, the dinner of The Blueprint edition was noisy in honor of the hundred most promising heroes from the world of fashion, culture and beauty, according to the expert council and the editors. That is, like the Moscow Art Theater, they honored the young. Many at once, and without award figurines or badges. The evening was held in the format of mass acquaintance: each participant of the evening accommodatingly wrote his own first and last name and stuck it on his chest, the older and the younger were mixed at the tables, and so that the guests would not be shy of each other, in addition to food and wine, they put cards on the tables with topics for conversation: “ How not to get your white coat dirty?”, “Peter I or Clay No. 4?”, “Elon Musk or Kanye West?”, “Someone asks you about your beauty routine?” In this scenario, there was even too much health, enthusiasm and human life.

The final burst of support for cultural youth was the party in honor of the 30th anniversary of Tatyana Stolyar, also known as the #cultural joiner from the Antiglyanets telegram channel. Mrs. Stolyar invited her friends, among whom were Ksenia Solovieva, Andrei Artemov, Alexander Perepelkin, to the Burlesque strip club. At the entrance, everyone who called the password “Gas Sector” was given a leash, at the other end of which was a collar with a “cat” of visible virtues and a striped tail. The “kitties” were delicately interested in whether the guest came to a club of this orientation for the first time and conducted a tour, showing the karaoke rooms for smokers reserved for the birthday girl and not. Also in the program of the evening was the removal of a huge cake with fireworks, eating “cats” of the birthday girl’s favorite salad without hands, and, of course, a large-scale dance of the entire troupe of the club to the song “I’m 30 years old today” by the group “Gas Sector”.