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Yuly Kim is one of the brilliant first generation of Soviet singer-songwriters, or bards. His name is rightfully listed among such greats as Vysotsky, Okudzhava, Galich, Vizbor, and Matveeva... He has won the Okudzhava Award and the 2015 Poet Award.Kim's lyrics have been set to music by many well-known composers and performed by some of the best Soviet actors in theater productions and movies, such as An Ordinary Miracle, 12 Chairs, Bumbarash, and others. These songs are widely known and very popular. Kim's portfolio also includes dozens of plays, stage adaptations, and librettos, performed on many stages.Kim always focuses on the social and political problems and issues both in his home country and around the world. Many of his songs, as well as three plays (including Moscow Kitchens) were considered seditious and banned by the authorities.In 1998, he became a citizen of Israel, which inspired a new, very important, theme in his work. Overall, his creative palette is impressively diverse, and his work is nothing if not entertaining.Many amazing portraits of Yuliy Kim by well known artist of photography, Alexander Efremov, are presented in the book, some of them published first time.

Aleksandr Lavut was born in Moscow in 2006. He attended the famous School #57 until 9th grade. Since 2019, he has spoken out against political repressions and war, participating in various forms of protest. After Russia began its war against Ukraine, Aleksandr decided to emigrate from Russia. He moved to France in May 2022 and was later granted political asylum there. He lives and attends school in Paris.

Yuly Kim is one of the brilliant first generation of Soviet singer-songwriters, or bards. His name is rightfully listed among such greats as Vysotsky, Okudzhava, Galich, Vizbor, and Matveeva... He has won the Okudzhava Award and the 2015 Poet Award. Kim's lyrics have been set to music by many well-known composers and performed by some of the best Soviet actors in theater productions and movies, such as An Ordinary Miracle, 12 Chairs, Bumbarash, and others. These songs are widely known and very popular. Kim's portfolio also includes dozens of plays, stage adaptations, and librettos, performed on many stages. Kim always focuses on the social and political problems and issues both in his home country and around the world. Many of his songs, as well as three plays (including Moscow Kitchens) were considered seditious and banned by the authorities. In 1998, he became a citizen of Israel, which inspired a new, very important, theme in his work. Overall, his creative palette is impressively diverse, and his work is nothing if not entertaining.

Hebron. One of the oldest cities on earth. The city in which the graves of the forefathers of the Jewish people are located along with the shrines of a people who trace their origins to Abraham's firstborn, Ishmael. A city that has become a symbol of confrontation, a city of blood and hatred.But it is also a city of eternal beauty, in which Jews and Arabs have lived together peacefully, until, by someone's evil will, spurned on by political, economic and other motives, blood flows again... But irreconcilable conflicts also arise among fellow tribesmen. Religious and secular, Hasidim and reformists, right and left... As they say, two Jews equals three parties. But these "parties" divide families, and brothers become adversaries...In this city, the characters of the book, our contemporaries, live, love, and struggle.

Book of poems with many beautiful illustrations....I have been reading Yulia Fridman's poems for a long time and have admired them for a long time. Now you and I have a book in front of us, huge and, in my opinion, absolutely beautiful. It is strong, gorgeous and amazing. In it a thick layer of ontologies unfolds and hundreds of lost voices are heard. I am entering the age-old sleep, into loneliness, into love. I go into the world, where there are goblins, children and old people, where is enchanted grass. And, reading poem after poem, I suddenly understand that there are no hopeless situations. In any case, we always have the opportunity to turn into a cuckoo and fly away.Vladimir Bogomyakov, poet

Dmitry Prigov (1941-2007) gained recognition as an artist whose vast artistic legacy engulfs almost all the genres of modern art. Today, his works can be found in the permanent collections and exhibition funds of leading museums in the USA, Europe, and Russia, as well as in private collections. Every year, more and more attention is devoted to Prigov's legacy by culture scholars and theorists of modern art. Creative work was the foundation of the artist's entire life, guided by a carefully calibrated personal worldview. At the center of this worldview are people, their language and their customs. As a person who is curious and not lazy (As contraposed to Pushkin's "We are lazy and not curious" from his Journey to Arzrum) , Prigov created this view for himself together with some contemporaries, as well as with those who lived before him, in the near or distant (including very distant) past. This view is the focus of the book. The prerogative to discuss it here is unconditionally given to Prigov. The book's author merely comments what the artist says. The sources are transcripts of Prigov's interviews, the author's many years of friendship with him, and an interested attention to his work and philosophy.This book has been created based on the author's lecture on November 15, 2015 at the International conference dedicated to Dmitri Prigov's 75th Bithday "Prigov - 75" in Moscow, Russia.