Igor Ilyich Dudinsky biography
Igor Dudinsky on Sunday, June 12, at the age of 75, the Soviet dissident, a participant in the Yuzhinsky mug, journalist and art critic Igor Dudinsky passed away. Boris Kupriyanov, the publisher of Gorky, recalls how he was a man and what his talent was. Since February 24, we all came in front of the advancing barbarism, violence and lies. In this situation, it is extremely important to preserve at least the remnants of culture and support the values of humanism - including for the sake of the future of Russia.
Therefore, the editorial office of Gorky will continue to talk about books, reminding our readers that the world remains in the world and fiction. To my question: “Who was Dudinsky for you? Yes to everyone. Perhaps this is said very accurately. Indeed, Igor Ilyich was everything - a man with a giant range of knowledge, feelings, experience. So large that in our monotonous bourgeois life of the second decade of the 21st century it seemed almost holy fool.
Energy and charisma have always made a dudu, if not the main one, then the most noticeable person at any table in any party. He literally funded, if you can apply such a verb to a person by a middle -aged one. Witting, intonation, some very incompetent, perhaps even untimely, almost archaic, from somewhere in x, the manner of speaking and gesticulating, the appeal “old man”-all this captured the listener.
Transferred to some other reality. Vitaliy Dudinsky was endowed with extraordinary. Of course, a formal occasion to publish the necrologist Dudinsky on a site dedicated to books and reading is there - he is the author of five books, but it is completely impossible to write about him only as a writer. The circle of his interests was limitless: journalism, literature, visual arts, producing - yes there are few areas that did not interest Dudinsky.
Experience is critic, and once, it seems, a minister, although, perhaps, a currency, a tramp, a party, an independent philosopher made his image more than attractive. He was part of bohemia, and when Bohemia had already disappeared. The tornado brought to us by some Kansas, flying from where and where-both in space and in time. He knew how to be non -banally paradoxical. A few years ago, Igor Ilyich told me about the talent of the very Evgenia Vasilieva, already convicted, in whom he once served as a consultant.
It’s not that in half an hour of persuasion he convinced me to change my opinion about her, and he did not convince me, namely what he explained and told. He himself believed in what he was talking about, was sincere when he talked about the features that he saw in it and loved. Dudinsky generally knew how and loved to love, fell in love with art, into artists, ideas, into women.
What are only his 13 legal marriages. Igor Ilyich was very fond of talking and telling, it was never clear with him how the next conversation would end - mysterious serpentines, the paths of thought were completely unthinkable, like trips on the American hills, although the American hills were just banality, and he was never banal. He always had many stories, jokes, parables, unexpected and accurate observations.
Despite the fact that Dudinsky told a lot, he was hunting interviews, his life was so broad and multifaceted that it could not be fixed, it cannot be measured by any arshin - neither Russian nor foreign. Igor Ilyich cannot be studied, prepared, he, as a fabulous lizard, is turned out from under any research device. Like a myphotrac, he sculpted anything from his life.
Probably, he lied, and most likely, it was, but his real biography was really borceps and fantastic more than any fiction. It will not be possible for us to sculpt from his earthly path from his earthly path. Duda was always the same and different. Behind his visible lightness and even carelessness, a deep understanding of both people and processes was hidden. Surrounding himself with many myths, Dudinsky defended himself from any attempt to interpret.
With him one could only be friends and listen to him, although it was not easy to listen to, separating grains from the tares. The fountaining model of the conversation did not give the interlocutor the opportunity to insert a question. Actually, his conversation was an independent work of art. Igor Ilyich Dudinsky was a representative of Bohemia, who kept the memory of those Moscow salons and that life.
He clearly understood and conceptualized her fabric itself - when communication was diverse and at the same time much simpler and more open than today. It is difficult to understand how a strange, uncontrolled and sometimes very controlled life of an intellectual and artistic underground was. Dudinsky was a guide, to those who associated us with the same. It is remarkable that the installation of this connection was not always required at all-often Duda conveyed some ideas to simply speak, behave, drinking, and balagury.
Each meeting with him was a performance, sometimes it even seemed that in advance calculated and thought out.But no, it was always an impromptu, complete surprise. Speaking of Duda, it is impossible to avoid mentioning the Yuzhinsky circle, an informal unification of the end of the X, named after two rooms in the hut where Yuri Mamleev lived. Now the story of this circle is often endowed with special meaning and painted with different mystical, witchcraft flowers.
Dudinsky was the last of its living participants. Some other “participants” of the Yuzhinsky circle, which at the time of the demolition of the barrack were 6 years old, and at the time of Mamleev’s departure abroad - 12, most of all exalt and mystify its meaning. But not Igor Ilyich! Dudinsky remained in the shadow of other Yuzhin, whose image is canonized today and almost deified or demonized?
Mamleev, they say, the “greatest” Russian writer. Try to read his “connecting rods” is an important book, but far from as deep and great as its glory demands to admit. Golovin - "Great Thinker, Translator and Poet." Yes, “here is a golden Eldorado in front of us” - his poems. Jemal is a “great thinker”, although his most famous book, “orientation is the north”, was recorded precisely by Dudinsky.
Perhaps the Yuzhinsky circle, if you look at it without posthumous idolating and was a group of originals and fantasiers, balagurs and performers, eccentrics and merry people - such as Igor Ilyich. Perhaps it was this vitality that gave birth to a mystical halo? Maybe it is necessary to study the history of the culture of Russia by its living participants, and not by dead myths?
With the departure of Dudinsky, we missed a chance to restore a large slice of Russian cultural life. Although there were extraordinary sensations and memories that are expensive. But I chose the most uncomfortable place for this. Those who often happen in Peredelkino know that near the cottage of the patriarch on the Budenovskoye highway a very bad connection. I called the car, forgetting that I scored the hero of the day in this place.
Who is this? .. Fucking connection! Not heard! Who is this?