Famil'nye tsennosti. Kniga obretennykh memuarov - Vasil'ev A.A.

Alexander Vasilyev (b. 1958) is a fashion historian, TV presenter, theatre artist, president of the Alexander Vasilyev Foundation, an honorary member of the Academy of Arts of Russia, a chevalier of the Order of Arts and Literature of France and the Order of the Cross of Latvia. Scientific director of the "Theory and Fashion Industry" program at Moscow State University, author of numerous books on the history of fashion, which became bestsellers: "Beauty in Exile", "Russian fashion. 150 years in photos, "Russian Hollywood" etc.
Vasilyev's family tree is extraordinarily branched. In the family of Alexander Vasilyev were French and English aristocrats, statesmen of the era of Catherine the Great, actors, opera singers, theater directors and artists. He himself became a world-renowned fashion historian and owner of a unique collection of historical costumes. However, by his own admission, the most important family value for him are the memories that are included in this book.
The first part of the book is a memoir by Pyotr Vasilyev, a theatre director and uncle of Alexander Vasilyev, about the family's life in pre-revolutionary Samara and the wanderings in Siberia that ended in Moscow. The second part is the memories of the father of our hero, Alexander Pavlovic - a famous theatrical artist. And in the third part the voice of Alexander Vasilyev himself, telling about talented ancestors and the birth of the famous collection, about childhood and first love, about work in the theater and emigration to Paris.