Опубликовано в журнале Дружба Народов, номер 1, 2010
DMITRIJ STAKHOV. Heavens Upside-Down. A novel.
The theme of parents and children is always actual, especially in the times of dynamic changes. Incidentally it may become still more burning when the changes begin to be settled and some signs of stability or even stagnation appear. Then within this generic theme the subject of grandfathers and grandchildren arises as it happens in this novel.
“DN” begins a series of publications dedicated to the 65-th anniversary of the Victory Day with two short stories by the outstanding Armenian prose-writer GRANT MATEVOSYAN (these short stories have never been translated into Russian) and memoirs of the journalist and author YOURIJ SUPRUNENKO who got to the front as a 17-year old youth and went through the war from its beginning to the end.
LUDMILA SINITSINA. Up the Stairs Leading Up.
In this essay the author tells of a woman who from her childhood had to rely on others since her legs are crippled, but who managed to overcome her helplessness and even became a standby for those who need help.
ALEXANDER TUZOV, VYACHESLAV SHAPOVALOV. Kirghizstan By Heart and Reason.
In the course of ages many powerful peoples and states at the Great Silk Route have disappeared as well as the memory of them. But the small Kirghiz ethnos not only remained but preserved its language, its cultural memory and statehood. The authors are pondering upon the secret of this phenomenon.
DMITRY BIKOV, ALEXEY VARLAMOV, INNA KABISH, MIKHAIL KURAEV, ALEXANDER MELIKHOV. A Wreath to Chekhov.
150-th anniversary of Anton Pavlovitch Chekhov. A man who died rather young but remained in our memory forever. A writer of the of the XIX century living in the XXI-st. That’s just how writers of our days are thinking and speaking of him.