Sherstyuk Sergey

1951, Moscow - 1998, Moscow. In 1979 graduated from the Faculty of Art Theory and History of Moscow State University. M.V. University. Since 1990 member of the Union of Artists. Since 1980, regularly participates in Russian and foreign exhibitions. He participated in art activities "Group B" (1980-85). By genre scenes and portraits, his creative career began as Sherstuk giperrealist. In the later works of the artist clearly felt an attraction to metaphysics. Works are in the Museum of Modern Art, Oklahoma, USA;. Zimmerly Art Museum, New Brunswick, USA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium; Museum of Contemporary Art, Florida, United States; "M 'Ars Museum", Moscow; "Zig Zag Company", New York, United States, as well as in number of private collections in Europe and the United States.

. CALVARY on Tverskaya

. "The man who can truly be called a Russian, find difficult
. Russian units were. Completely non-Russian Moscow. Well you live in a foreign city, so what? I went for notebooks in the "Children's world", and then sell Mercedes cars. On the street there and then American Ukrainians (published in Russian, though) "What lies behind the" new world order? "Opened: the struggle of Protestants with Roman Catholics under the ecumenical sauce. On the one hand - Globe, on the other - Bush, threatening finger reader. That is, to me, or what? Threw the urn. Shout: "for free! For free!" ... I went to the studio and feel that I do not hide a grimace of disgust. It is a child of the mountains and chew - very funny ... Tired to see how all the secret doctrines become burps son of the Mountains ". Entry from the diary of Sergei Sherstyuk. Made 14 September 1992.
In this book the three main characters. The author - well-known Moscow painter Sergei giperrealist Sherstyuk. His wife - prima Efremovsky Moscow Art Theater, Russian actress Elena Majorova.
And the country - first the Soviet Union, then Russia of the nineties of the last XX century, which was destined to live and die Sherstyuk and Maiorov. The two main characters are no longer alive. Yelena Majorova died tragically (in still unexplained circumstances) 23 August 1997. Exactly nine months later - May 23, 1998. - Died of cancer Sergei Sherstyuk. Does Russia still alive (or a public education, which in official documents referred to as "United States")?
. "Stolen Book" - is unfabled history, what is now referred to as non-fiction, made up of chronologically ordered diary entries made Sherstyukov 70-90-ies of the past century has
. From this kind of diary-novel, . from which we can not break away, . one can extract everything: here and the last in the XX century love story, . bearing in themselves inescapable metaphysical tragedy, . so strange and absurd in the modern obmelchavshem mire, . and marginally-bohemian world of the Kiev-Moscow "underground", . and various "bytovuha", . sometimes funny, . sometimes sad ..,
. For us the most important and interesting to historiosophical component diaries. The peculiar history, medical history of the country and society, definitely and rigidly meaningful transcript of what Sherstyuk watched from the window of his apartment on Tverskaya Street, seen on the streets, watching on TV.
Sherstyuk simply took the material that lay beneath his feet, thinking about it, and downloaded their thoughts in a diary. They are something, they thought, and are the main event of "stolen book. "The Soviet regime blew up the Holy Monastery and replace it with a cinema" Russia ", as our government opened a casino" Caro "and" Party Zone ", where the nights broadcast patlatyh, inarticulate and otvyaznyh degenerates - a dream come true hippie. And the dream that carried vile komsyuki of MGIMO and other ideological divisions ... A degenerates from the "party zone" in twenty years could easily be a camp overseers, butchers or chairpersons of "triads". And it will not be a betrayal, because even today they are dancing on the bones of nuns. Here zhituha! Lord granted me to watch it all ".
Sergei Sherstyuk grown not just as used to say in the old Soviet times, the "respectable family". Father - a general, a good apartment on Tverskaya Street, the golden youth of the secured hipsters, the obsession with the esoteric and abstract, in oriental studies at the prestigious Moscow State University history department office - this page visible, the "outer" biography. Blogs same Sherstyuk reveal its way inland, spiritual activity. How far away from any politics, it is a young bohemian artist becomes a Russian nationalist and a monarchist? "Man is not a monarchist in order to see clearly or even see things as they are, but to serve. But suddenly, it happens that someone is to see clearly monarchism. And it's good. ... Dostoevsky suddenly remembered. He helped jail, but was enough for me to become a hippie. Yesterday was a hippie, and tomorrow is a monarchist ".
One of his close friends and Maiorov Sherstyuk so appreciative of the couple: "Men of honor in the coming days bezchestiya". Strong and precise definition. Being a man of honor, Sergei Sherstyuk after 76 years after February, 1917. considered himself (as successor to the White case) guilty of perjury before the last Russian Tsar. "I do not like the Bolsheviks, never forgive them ritual murder and ritual abuse of Orthodoxy, but, conquer suddenly white, I know, unexploded churches have suffered a neglect. They would produce Coca-Cola ... Sundays we went to a toy of the church, begging God for profit. Religion would be a purely ritual hoarding, and the temple - a continuation of the computer. ... I am very fond of Russian officers, cadets and soldiers, not being afraid to take up arms against the serpent, but they are not white matter, they - Russian. White matter - it's the same idea of industrial civilization. And we are not to blame for the defeat, and of perjury. Many officers do not understand what led them into battle perjurers. Alekseev, Kornilov, Kolchak, Denikin, Wrangel - people, which were essential to the February Revolution, could not be abdication of our king, they perjurers. It was they who started the car, which shot 76 years later, "White House". Actually shot his "white matter".
In post-communist Russia, in dark and fetid swamp, called the "erefiey, Sherstyuk not admitted his homeland, did not recognize the country in which he would like to live. "It's disgusting and a feast goon" - recorded Sherstyuk of modern Russia. In this he is quite in tune with one of his favorite authors, . Konstantin Leontiev, . writing a century before Sherstyuk: "I do not understand French, . who know how to love all of France and all serve: I wish, . that homeland was worthy of my respect and Russia all (eg, . a, . which Gradovsky and Stasц?levich would restrict the power of ministers) I really forced to make ... "Sherstyuk felt no nostalgia for the non-existent and the Council of Deputies, . good linen, . swollen from vodka communist snout did not disappear, . simply, . coming out of the CPSU, . competently redistribute across Russia's political spectrum,
. Like all Russian literature came out of Gogol's "Overcoat", and all the current political beau monde, from the president to the prefect, grew out of late-digested complexes.
Nostalgia Sherstyuk - a longing for the Russian Empire, it was a paradise, irretrievably lost in February 1917. Weak and distorted view of the Great White Empire was reflected (albeit of a caricature) and fade the Red Soviet of Deputies. Of course, modern man and the false glitter beads may recall the shining diamond. Sam Sherstyuk this difference perfectly well: he once remarked that the Russian and Soviet blessed crazy not to have any relation to each other. "It is Well what you have to be a fool to killing of Nicholas II, to decide that the government had taken away, this is it for you hell on earth built, and what are you thinking, idiot?" ... The eternal hell of a piece of plywood cut in the form of Russia and glued to the underworld. And Russia, Nicholas II with a picked up at the sky ... Although, it seems, someone with a celestial Russia has already arrived ... You go on a plywood Russia and suddenly - bam! - Brook, oak, wheat, sun - well, as in heaven! Lord, save Russia ... "
. March 19, 1994, . Reflecting on the fate of the Russian Empire, . Sergei Sherstyuk makes in his diary one of the most remarkable and visionary records, . full understanding of the eschatological reality: "Without Russia Empire - or the Soviet Union, . or Russian fascism,
. Now really, sorry. Here not even mind or wisdom do not need to understand is. ... Russian Fascism is the materialization of Russian sentiment - and it abruptly than two thousand years, take money. Because all the money may be invalid. They are in fact Russian fascism may cancel along with diamonds and branzuletkami. Here humanity is not civilization, which is already crap, can lose, but in general human history ". And then what? Mir end. Once again be uncovered lost Garden of Eden, which missed Sherstyuk. Descend from heaven, the great Castle, Holy Heavenly Jerusalem. "Its gates shall not be shut at all by day and night there will be. And do not enter into it anything unclean, and no one worketh abomination, but only those who are written in the Lamb's book of life ", (Rev., 21, 25, 27). Funeral in the church of the Assumption of the Big Nikita, where Pushkin married ...

Author: Andrey Zhukov
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