Notes of a social psychopath. Faina's childhood was not happy
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The seizure of regional administration buildings in Kharkov and Donetsk, as well as the SBU building in Lugansk by resistance forces in early April, was a complete surprise for the Ukrainian and Russian elites. Such “amateur activity” did not fit into the plans of Kyiv and Moscow, and something had to be done about it. The actions of the putschists in these cities were fundamentally different.
Kharkov, out of control, the next day, at the command of Avakov, was brutally cleared by the Vinnitsa special forces "Jaguar", since the Kharkov "Berkut" refused to carry out his orders. During this operation, the leaders of the “South-Eastern Bloc” Logvinov and Yudaev were arrested and about seventy activists of the Kharkov resistance were imprisoned for years.
The authorities brought additional forces into the city and suppressed all attempts at violent actions. Despite the repression, protests in Kharkov continued, but the seizure of the city hall in mid-April and an attempt to support those arrested in the pre-trial detention center led nowhere.
In Donbass (despite the proclamation of the DPR, threatening statements about secession from Ukraine and the seizure of an arsenal of weapons in Lugansk), the putschists surprisingly did not take any measures to eliminate the center of resistance. The republics, except for the rebels of Slavyansk and nearby cities, were not touched by anyone for another three months, and they existed quietly. All this raised many questions for us.
In April, I visited Donetsk several times and saw that the entire power of the republic was limited to the territory of primitive barricades around the regional administration. No one prepared the city for defense, and, it seems, there was no intention of defending it. In Slavyansk, on the contrary, they were seriously preparing for defense, bristling with barricades made of concrete blocks and sandbags.
Nevertheless, the proclamation of the DPR and LPR and the appointment of a referendum gave new impetus to the protest movement, and in order to agree on the issues submitted for the referendum, we went to Donetsk for negotiations with the leadership of the DPR. During the negotiations with Pushilin and Purgin, I was surprised by their tough and uncompromising position, especially Purgin’s: only state sovereignty and secession from Ukraine.
At that time, it was already brought to my attention that the Russian leadership did not support the state sovereignty of the republics and was not going to recognize them. Pushilin and Bolotov knew about this, but no arguments worked and we could not agree. Holding a referendum on issues different from the self-proclaimed republics lost its meaning, and a referendum according to the Donetsk scenario led to unpredictable consequences.
At the initial stage, neither the elites of the South-East nor the state structures of Russia took serious steps to create a leading center of resistance. The “Crimean Initiative,” which was not confirmed by real support from Russian structures, only disoriented everyone and led to a loss of confidence in the protest movement. The Donetsk republics also did not fulfill the functions of a unifying center of resistance in the South-East. Each region continued to act independently.
In mid-April, an attempt was made to unite protesters from Russian territory by the initiative group “New Rus'” led by Anpilogov. The Kharkov resistance participated in this project, but it was not supported by the elites. The matter did not go further than the appointment of curators to each region, holding visiting seminars for activists and the famous congress in Yalta.
The events taking place in the South-East naturally affected the interests of Russia. But Moscow continued to solve all problems through the corrupt Ukrainian elites, without directly interfering with the growing popular protests. The Crimea problem was solved, and the protests only complicated the situation.
The development of the protest movement could lead to unpredictable results, including for Russia. Apparently, since mid-April, the Russian leadership began to focus on solving the Donbass problem by federalizing Ukraine and creating autonomy for the South-East, which, in fact, is where the protests began.
This decision suited the Donetsk oligarchy, which sought to maintain its assets and influence in the Donbass, naturally, only as part of Ukraine.
To this end, an attempt is being made to unite resistance forces within the framework of the “South-East” project, later renamed “Novorossiya”, aimed at the federalization of Ukraine and the creation of south-eastern autonomy. The goal of the project was not the separation of Novorossiya from Ukraine, as many believed then, but the consolidation of resistance forces and the creation in the future of a powerful pool together with the oligarchy for forceful and political pressure on the then weak putschists and a possible change of power in Kyiv to a regime loyal to Russia.
In addition to this trend, apparently, among the Russian elites there were people who sought to build on the success of Crimea and take control of the South-East. As it becomes clear now, these two trends determined the ambiguous and contradictory actions in Slavyansk and the Donbass republics.
Supporters of the second trend, having mixed up the cards first, organized Strelkov’s attack on Slavyansk in mid-April. This was a continuation of the “Crimean initiative”. Strelkov came to Slavyansk from Crimea and brought with him a detachment of militias from different regions of Ukraine and Russia. The initiators of this attack, after success in Crimea, considered it possible to carry out the same operation in other regions of the South-East. Apparently, this operation was not sanctioned from above; Strelkov might not have known about it.
This is how organized armed resistance to the putschists began for the first time in Slavyansk and nearby cities, which was in no way connected with the events in Kharkov and especially with the processes in Donetsk and Lugansk, which the Donetsk oligarchy was preparing at that time for an honorable surrender.
According to Strelkov’s recollections, he was practically abandoned, and no one provided him with help, only Bolotov from the LPR sent ammunition. At the end of April, we managed to break through from Kharkov to Slavyansk with food and medicine, and I saw how difficult the situation was in the besieged city. All the forces of the Ukrainian army were thrown not at Donetsk and Lugansk, but at Slavyansk, the city fought and waited for help, but it never came.
Events in Slavyansk forced the putschists to take a number of preemptive measures in Kharkov. Not limited to the first cleansing of the city, the second blow was struck at the end of April, arresting the remnants of the resistance leadership after our breakthrough to Slavyansk with humanitarian aid. They were afraid that Kharkov would go the same way. But this was no longer feasible, since the issue of the necessary forces and means had not been resolved and the resistance was decapitated.
And Odessa, which peacefully protested, as a warning to other regions, was severely punished on May 2, by organizing a bloody provocation involving Nazis and football fans.
The uprising of Slavyansk and the referendum on the status of the self-proclaimed republics scheduled for May 11 fairly frightened the putschists and the West behind them. To prevent the possible spread of the Crimean scenario to other regions of the South-East, OSCE envoy Burkhalter arrived in Moscow just before the referendum.
The “arguments” of the Western envoy, apparently, turned out to be very convincing. Russia recognized Poroshenko’s legitimacy, believing promises about the federalization of Ukraine. Ambassador Zurabov, who had long-standing business ties with Poroshenko and convinced Moscow of the possibility of reaching an agreement with him, probably played an important role. (If this is so, then it’s amazing how anyone could trust such agreements?!)
After the arrival of the “guest”, Strelkov’s mission, naturally, was...
Faina Ranevskaya
Notes of a Social Psychopath
I am Faina Ranevskaya
Ranevskaya, unlike most other famous people, did not leave memoirs.
She was repeatedly offered to write memoirs and was even paid an advance. She started, quit and returned the money. Perhaps, she generally had a negative attitude towards memoirs, and when she was asked to write about Akhmatova, she replied that “there is also a posthumous execution, these are the memories of her “best” friends.”
And so it turned out that Ranevskaya’s full-fledged memoirs do not exist, there are only small excerpts - drafts, diary entries, letters, interviews. This is very sad, and not only because she had a lot of interesting things to say, but also because she had serious literary talent. She was a master of words and could express in a short, precise phrase what many would not be able to explain in a dozen sentences. She easily composed literary parodies and jokes, wrote poetry...
However, once Ranevskaya finally brought her book of memoirs to the end. I worked on it for three years, and then... destroyed. In one private conversation, she said that no one would allow her to write the whole truth about herself, and she did not want to lie. Perhaps this uncompromisingness of hers was the point. And perhaps there were other reasons. We can only guess.
Faina Georgievna Ranevskaya was born in Taganrog in 1896 into the family of Girsh Khaimovich and Milka Rafailovna Feldman.
Of course, then her last name was also Feldman - she became Ranevskaya much later, when she chose her acting pseudonym.
Her father, Girsh Khaimovich Feldman, was a respected and influential man, he owned a chemical factory for the production of paints and over time became a very wealthy oil industrialist who had great weight in local commercial and industrial circles. In Taganrog he had a large two-story house in which he lived with his family, several apartment buildings, shops, and even the steamship “St. Nicholas”.
The Feldman family had four children - the eldest daughter Bella, son Yakov, daughter Faina and the youngest son Lazar, who died as a child. The house in which they lived has been preserved to this day, and in 2008, a monument to Faina Ranevskaya in the role of Lyalya from the film “Foundling” was erected near it. However, she herself left her father’s house even before the revolution and then never came there again.
Faina's childhood was not happy.
“I remember my bitter resentment towards everyone around me in my lonely childhood,” she said. At first glance, it is not clear what the matter was, because her family was quite wealthy and moderately loving.
Faina's loneliness was not physical, but psychological - she had too subtle a sensitive nature, and she did not find friends or generally like-minded people among those who surrounded her. She recalled that she first felt unhappy at the age of six, when she saw poor tortured animals in a visiting menagerie. They made everyone else laugh, but she cried...
In addition, she stuttered, and in childhood this is a terrible misfortune. Children are cruel, and little Faina has had enough of the ridicule of her classmates. And the teachers were not distinguished by their delicacy and patience. And so it turned out that the girl did not feel happy and protected either at home or at the gymnasium. This had a bad effect on her character - she became nervous, withdrawn, and almost stopped studying.
Faina did not study at the gymnasium for long - she was soon expelled for poor academic performance. Although maybe her parents took her from there themselves.
In a letter to one of her friends, she later wrote: “I studied at the Mariinsky Women’s Gymnasium in Taganrog. Very bad. stayed for the second year. I hated high school. The four rules of arithmetic were not given, she solved problems, crying, not understanding anything about them. In the problem book. merchants sold cloth for more than they purchased! It wasn't interesting." She begged her parents to take her away from there; the gymnasium, in turn, also wanted to get rid of her, and pretty soon her parents transferred her to home education.
However, at home Faina received an education no worse than a gymnasium - she was taught reading, arithmetic, foreign languages, music, and of course good manners, sewing and home economics, as befits a girl from a decent patriarchal family. True, the quality of this education left much to be desired; the father believed that the main thing for a woman was to get married successfully, so he paid little attention to what and how his daughter was taught. And so it turned out that Faina learned everything she might need in life herself, already an adult.
Faina Ranevskaya “fell ill” with theater, stage acting, and acting in early childhood.
Already at the age of three, she acted out scenes with her dolls, and assigned a role to each, like a real director. As she grew older, she imitated everyone who caught her eye, happily playing role after role. And she gained her first real, albeit amateur, theatrical experience at the age of eight, staging and performing with puppet artists the famous children's play “Petrushka.”
Ranevskaya said that “Petrushka” was the number one shock of her childhood. The second shock was an excerpt from some color film (apparently hand-colored). Twelve-year-old Faina watched the beautiful love story with bated breath, and then ran home, broke her piggy bank and gave the money to the neighboring children - so she wanted to do something big and beautiful after seeing the beauty.
Ranevskaya inherited the tendency to fall passionately in love with people, regardless of whether they are real, fictional, or even died many years ago, from her mother.
One of the first memories of her childhood was the death of Chekhov. She forever remembered the beautiful summer morning and her mother sobbing sadly over the newspaper. Frightened Faina cried with her, and then found the first Chekhov book she came across and read it. It turned out to be “A Boring Story,” which made such an impression on her that Ranevskaya later wrote, remembering the moment when she closed the book: “This was the end of my childhood. I understood everything about human loneliness.”
A few years later, she again heard her mother’s screams and sobs: “How can I live now? He is no longer there. It’s all over, everything is gone, my conscience is gone.” This time another writer she adored, Leo Tolstoy, died. Milka Feldman took his death so hard that she fell ill for a long time.
That’s how Faina Ranevskaya later loved someone, just like that, with complete dedication. This is how she loved her friends, and this is how she loved Tolstoy and Pushkin - with all the passion, with all the spiritual strength of which she was capable.
“I loved, I admire Akhmatova. Her poems became part of my blood from a young age,” Ranevskaya wrote in her diary.
And it was the honest truth. Akhmatova’s poems, and then she herself, entered Ranevskaya’s life so firmly that it is now impossible to imagine them without each other. A great poetess and a great actress - they were inextricably linked until the end of their lives.
Their friendship really began in Tashkent, during the Great Patriotic War, but they met much earlier. Ranevskaya then, according to her own recollections, was still Faina Feldman and lived in Taganrog. She read Akhmatova’s poems, fell in love with them and firmly decided to meet the poetess. I went to St. Petersburg, found Akhmatova’s apartment and rang the doorbell.
“Anna Andreevna herself opened it to me,” she recalled. “I think I said: “You are my poet,” I apologized for my impudence. She invited me into the rooms. She gave me friendship until the end of her days.” Akhmatova then asked Faina: “Are you writing?” But she replied: “I never tried. There can’t be too many poets.” Perhaps, from this phrase, Akhmatova took a closer look at her, singling out an unusual girl from among her many admirers.
In 1910, Faina met the famous actress Alisa Koonen.
At that time, Koonen was very young, played at the Art Theater and was already quite famous both in Moscow and abroad. They met Faina Feldman in Yevpatoria, where Alisa was visiting her brother, the head doctor of a tuberculosis sanatorium.
As for Faina, she was then fourteen years old, and she was literally in love with Koonen - she came to Evpatoria especially for meetings with her and accompanied her idol everywhere.
Five years later, when Faina had already moved to Moscow and was trying to become an actress, Koonen was already the prima singer of the recently opened Chamber Theater under the direction of Alexander Yakovlevich Tairov.