Doroga na Astapovo - Berezin Vladimir Sergeevich

Vladimir Berezin is a writer, literary critic, journalist. The author of realistic ("The Way and the Procession", "Witness") and fantastic prose ("The Last Mammoth"), the biography of Viktor Shklovsky in "YSL" and books about the history of the automotive industry of the USSR ("Polyakov"). "The Road to Astapovo" is a travel novel. Writer, Architect, Local historian and museum director, whose prototypes are easy to unravel, go on a journey like the heroes of "Three in a boat, not counting dogs." Only the route they choose is the iconic - the last way of Leo Tolstoy from Yasnaya Polyana to Astapovo. Repeating it, the heroes talk about Russian culture and history, marvel at abandoned palaces and temples, have fun and relax. "Poetry arose from nothing, from old texts, from dust on a pocket butt, from car exhaust on a country road, from ruined churches in the middle of Russia and from combinations of reinterpreted words. We all wrote one travel magazine." ... The prose is exquisite in some places, sometimes "burlesque" but invariably - alive. Reading it is like traveling with a nice interlocutor. Pavel Basinsky Vladimir Berezin is "Weil and Genis with a Russian-continental smack. Kirill Ankudinov