“Friendship of peoples” — 85! At all times, the magazine has worked and strives to work for recognition, understanding, good neighborliness, cooperation, and creative development of national cultures in the Eurasian space, while remaining faithful to the life-affirming idea inherent in the title. In the jubilee year, we will continue to introduce readers to those who create modern literature, and we will remember the wonderful names and bright pages of the magazine of the past years.
Read in the first issue:
In the section “Golden Pages of DN” there are poems by Vladimir VYSOTSKY. “Vysotsky passionately, boyishly dreamed of being published,— Andrei Voznesensky emphasized, anticipating the publication. — The poems selected here are not ordinary literary works. Here are pieces of Vladimir Vysotsky’s life and fate.”
Glimpses of happiness
Arseny GONCHUKOV’s novel “Over the City of Gorky” is a story about his father, and about a difficult, tough and in many ways naive time, called “perestroika”, about the time of growing up against the background of universal breakdown, universal resentment, misunderstanding and later regret.
“…the light of a Christmas tree toy in the window”
The poems of Sergei PAGIN (Moldova) set up a New Year mood, and on these special days you acutely feel, “living with love and longing”, how one Time goes and another comes. Isn’t Vladimir SALIMON’s lyric about this “Chain of Transformations”? Reflections on the “cyclicity of life” are not alien to Evgeny CHIGRIN. And the young poet Grigory KNYAZEV notes how “Miraculously they catch hearing and sight Perceptibly, in reality / Long waves of heartbeat …”
Seaside symbiosis
“If you draw several parallel lines on a blackboard with colored crayons, and then run your palm over them, will they remain the same? If several nationalities are settled on the same land for an extended period of time, what will happen?”
Sinologist Anna Voropaeva, a resident of Vladivostok, answers this question by giving examples — sometimes very funny — from personal experience.
In the section “Reading circle: names and books” literary critics summarize the results of the year and advise what is worth reading.
In the category ” ПРОЗА.doc “Igor KLEKH in the story “Corso” describes the life of the creative intelligentsia in the city of Lviv in the seventies of the last century. Vladimir GANDELSMAN, who now lives in the USA, also writes about the life of the creative intelligentsia, but already in St. Petersburg.
Sergey SAMSONOV shares his impressions of visiting modern Crimea and talks about meetings with writers living there.
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