The road to Astapovo. Berezin V. S.

Vladimir Berezin - prose writer, literary critic, journalist. The author of the realistic (“Way and Processing”, “Witness”) and fantastic prose (“Last Mammoth”), Biography of Viktor Shklovsky in “ZhZL” and books on the history of the car industry of the USSR (“Poles”).

“The road to Astanovo” is a waybill. The writer, architect, local historian and director of the museum, whose prototypes are easily unraveled, go on a trip, like the heroes "three in the boat, not counting the dog." Only the route they choose a sign - the last journey 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 saddened.

“Poetry arose from nothing, from old texts, from a dust on a pocket knife, from a road exhaust on a country road, from ruined churches in the middle of Russia and from combinations of rethought words. We all wrote one travel magazine. ”

... prose are sophisticated in places, in some places "burlesque", but invariably - living. Reading it is like traveling with a pleasant interlocutor.

Pavel Basinsky.

Vladimir Berezin is “Vail and Genis with a Russian-Continental taste.

Kirill Ankudinov.