Rehearsals. Sharov V.A.

Vladimir Sharov (1952-2018)-writer and historian, author of cult novels “before and during”, “Lazarus’s resurrection”, “Be like children”, “Old girl”, “Return to Egypt”, “The kingdom of Agamemnon ". Laureate of the prizes “Russian Bucher” and “Big Book”.

in “rehearsals” - as always under the pen of Sharov - Russian history, rafting with biblical plots, acquires completely fantastic features: Moscow of the 17th century becomes the Earth , in New Jerusalem, Patriarch Nikon and captured by French director conduct rehearsals of the second coming, and people distributed from roles again play out events from the Gospel in anticipation of Christ ,oming the roles from generation to generation...

“Vladimir Sharov was the chief Russian writer. Throughout the main one, and throughout the Russian - in relations with the language, in powerful historical thinking, according to the unmistakable feeling of the disappearance of the truth and the exposure of truth.

every novel was an event for me. Today I recall especially vividly, as we and classmates in the baptismal frosts of 1999 went to New Jerusalem, stopped at some hill covered with snow and read the “rehearsals” aloud, looking at the monastery. It was a pilgrimage of readers to the place that Patriarch Nikon did not make a shrine, but made a place of a miracle of the balls... This is an enthusiastic and devastated feeling of the presence of a miracle for me personally the backdrop of reading of every Shari book.

He taught - very gently , all the time slyly and slyly grinning into a beard-what is a miracle, but as soon as we accept by Russian custom to build on the miracles of the hut, it is turning something else. That the ancient story never disappears, but has become around us like a grove. That all times are one eternity, and in its night sky the quiet snow of the second World Flood is slowly spinning, and the ark is warm. ”

Alexander Gavrilov