They are extremely undesirable, that is, first of all it will be necessary to agree on the budget, and then agree on some Emergency Assistance packages , plus, dont forget that there are very serious changes happening in the Energy Market now, and fuel is growing very much, which also does not play into the hands of joe bidens president ial campaign, and additional injections into any other countries are extremely problematic. What the americans now want, what they demand from president biden, is to protect the us borders directly, and then think about helping other allies, so i think that these packages will be divided, there were materials in the American Press that the decision to supply these new offensive weapons, ballistic missiles, in such a reduced range, that this is due to the fact that biden, even personally directly, his advisers, did not want to supply weapons that would more longrange, it could strike, but if you want, in the center of russia and that this reasonable restraint explains that ukraine received weapons, but if you want, not to the maximum. In washington they believe that they can continue to saturate ukraine with new and more serious weapons, just do it not in one leap, but step by step, because you know very well what they said a few months ago, in general. Ukraine cannot be supplied, that it is too dangerous, that it could lead to escalation, now these missiles are being delivered, this is how we should react to this from your point of view, as if biden is showing reasonable caution, or is this just a tactic, we wo nt give everything at once, first well give shortened systems, let everyone get used to the fact that such systems exist in ukraine, and then. Maybe it will be possible to expand all this and provide newer and more capable models, what do you think . Well, look, i think that here, of course, there is such a double game, and firstly, you really need to somehow show your ally that you have everything is fine with us, and what we give are the military equipment that you need, that you request. But on the other hand, if you look at the amount of this equipment, it is completely insufficient to turn the tide of hostilities, that is, this is such an indicative supply, but in fact, if we look at what is happening now directly on the battlefield, and in principle, already in the western press they say that ukraines de facto counteroffensive failed, the ukrainians say that indeed, they provided enough weapons, what will happen now with the abrams, for example, will also need to be looked at, the insufficient amount of weapons supplied to ukraine, but rather will not even play in favor of the militarytechnical complex of the United States, will also burn like leopards, yes, its difficult to understand bidens logic here, he is somehow yes, somehow in the middle, yes, neither but de facto it turns out that this is such a losing position that does not actually entail victory or some significant gains on the part of ukraine, thank you, i want to remind you of one figure since the beginning of the special operation , in midoctober, where we are now, the United States, the United States alone, have already supplied ukraine with weapons and ammunition worth almost 50 billion dollars, by almost 50. Therefore , it was certainly possible to do more; it was certainly possible to go even further along the path of escalation, but frankly speaking, when assessing bidens actions, at least it seems to me that i should say that he has already done a lot, and what he has already demonstrated, but if you want, less and less concern about how his. How his supplies are reacted in moscow, ekaterina, thank you very much, we are very grateful to you, we hope to see you again on our air soon. Thank you, thank you, it was a great game, well see you on air next week. Hundreds of portraits, thousands of meters of film, just one person with a camera, for me , a photograph of carpenters is a sign of equality, everything that he did during his huge life, of course, went down in history. His photos they look like paintings, and each of them has its own story, i dont like to take photographs, i absolutely dont, this is a photograph of a person who sees the world, probably, well, as artists see, he takes a picture of a person the way that person wanted to be. Valery plotnikov, he created a photoport of time, if suddenly valera plotnikov becomes interested in you, it means that your destiny has practically worked out. There are legends about his character, he has the worst character, he is vengeful, in general, everything. Its elementary, its hard to argue with him. Better give up rather than try to argue, everyone should correspond to him, children, grandchildren, friends, i dont say the word friends, because valera has no friends, he doesnt know how to make friends, and his personal life is closed to strangers , a beautiful woman, one can envy, not talkative, thank god, a real man, only a few know what he really is like. This is the whole story of my life, because i need to manage to erect a monument to an unknown photographer, this is not a monument to me, on the site of our former entrance, here was our front entrance, without photographs, in during the soviet era, not a single glossy magazine was included. His works were published not only in the ussr, but abroad. Always with a red line, somewhere in the red corner, like an icon, valerochkas work always hangs. Some of the heroes of Valery Plotnikovs filming became Close Friends for him. Vysotsky carpenters communicated for 13 years, it all started on january 18, 1967. Plotnikov took several shots during vysotskys concert. He didnt like taking photographs, but after seeing the pictures, he agreed to a separate photo session. I photographed vysotsky, absolutely i dont think it will. Some kind of commercial return, i myself came up with some ideas, i myself proposed this to vysotsky, plotnikov essentially became vysotskys photobiographer. He made 283 black and white and seven color frames of the poet, including the famous portraits of vladimir semyonovich, this wonderful sword, these are the textures that David Borovsky made in hamlet, he is a real forged one and he is as tall as volodya, and i came up with the mezzanine , so that volodya would sing into this sword like into a microphone, and i would simply supply logs of wood under volodya. And volodya really sang to me for about 15 minutes, this is my move, my trick, it worked, because then from time to time they called me from the editorial office, then of course, listen, you have a shot there of a highrise guy singing into a microphone , here we need it, i say, look carefully, it will go into the sword, this is plotnikovs exhibition at the ermolova theater, also dedicated to vysotsky, his photographs, well, really. They stop you in any case, they stop you, you pass by, you cant, it doesnt work that way you cant glance at the photograph, it doesnt matter, you still return to this closeup, but some kind of magic, a wizard, in short, only once plotnikov was confused while working, on the instructions of the editors he had to photograph the legendary lilya brik, the muse poet of the revolution mayakovsky and mistress of one of the most famous. Trays, i come to the pm , thats it, i introduced myself, i see these cruel trays, i understand that this has nothing to do with lila, but nevertheless, fulfilling the editorial task, plotnikov felt, the photo doesnt work, i feel like theres still half an hour of such torment there, she feels that, in general, the young man is clearly not at ease. Lets just say, learn how to take photographs, come and lets talk. Valery took a break under the pretext that the Lighting Fixtures needed to cool down, while he feverishly thought about how to rectify the situation. I go into vasilys office, this is her last husband, i see a squashed sofa, a collapse of books, such a living real interior, and i understand that oh, this is what i need, i sit down when i am the master of the situation, im already really in charge, i feel that everything is in order , in general, im taking off lilya, we become, well, maybe not friends, but in general a wonderful relationship, every photo of him, whatever you say, of course, took out something one of those people who took photographs and of us too, the young leningrad quartet secret at first was not delighted with plotnikovs photo shoot, of course he straight up pulled us to the left to the right above his head no smile bad smile what kind of facial expression is every click that is, its long weve been preparing for a long time getting ready getting ready then got ready chick done then we think about it for a long time i remember it was annoying that we were somehow very sleek in his ideas but it was impossible to argue with the carpenter on the site, the photographer never listened to anyones objections, and of course, we played everything that he asked, this photograph turned out, and we are just so childish, so very naive and very romantically open, the character of plotnikovo, they live in some other reality, partly in fairy tales, in fictional landscapes, in fictional interiors. That is, he is filming a person the way this person would like to be, yes, he put his whole life on st. Petersburg , he photographed this city, not only in the faces of leningraders, he is of course an artist, he is not just a photographer, there is Something Like that, now of course there are such people no, plotnikov was born in st. Petersburg, then leningrad. On october 20, 1943, the house in which little valera lived in the very center of the city was located next to several major theaters. Since childhood, just playing catchup, he encountered legends on the stage, and these legends came out, just from childhood, filippov, zarubina, by the way, ivan urgants grandfather, just for a minute, for me right away. The city is nadvolno nevoy, the city is our glory and labor, because for me this is the personification of that very intelligence, that very innate culture, that very same one. He realized that no one knew them by sight, and chose his future profession, i realized that no , i really must use the example of my generation, especially since life turned out so wonderfully that. While living on nevsky i saw many, many, many, and then some of them i managed to film them, and although valery has long been accustomed to living in two cities, constantly filming in st. Petersburg and in moscow, his true love has always been only one, he loves it very much when the city is called peter, what kind of not peter, but petersburg, as possible, the first shooting of Mikhail Boyarsky became part of the plotnikov family history, i remember that my family asked for a photo shoot, when they found out that i would be shooting boyarsky himself, they said take us all, one for all, the first call was born in the old apartment where i lived with my mother a handsome young man comes in and says lets go, ill shoot you on the cover of a magazine screen, it was flattering and unexpected, i decided to dress the way i want, no, no, no, ill do everything myself, heres a sweater, a shirt, i ill give you mine, lets go, where, i have no idea, we got into this car, one big one, with girls, misha had nowhere to go, they were young, great, i open the trunk, i say, misha, sit here, here, there it was only necessary to raise his legs just a little bit, because after all, he wouldnt really lie down there, misha fit in, thats it, for the sake of the girls im not only going to go in the trunk, a traffic cop is slowing me down there and i, in order to speed up the process, after all , i have to go filming, you say, excuse me , please, im going to shoot boyarskys filming, he tells me, what kind of boyar, like, why are you telling me this, because he is looking, and we are standing at the hood, and he sees all girls faces there in the car, then i found the star part, i say, come here, we go around to the car, i open it here so here is the trunk lid, misha boyarsky is sitting there, who said he brought i was taken to a yacht club, found some kind of yacht, asked for this solution to put me near a mast with ropes, gave me my semester guitar, i was terribly upset that i wasnt wearing black, that the guitar wasnt a sixstring, but this photo was for sale until now, i am on the signature, most often suffocate it, it has existed for 50 years. The guitar that upset mikhail is still kept in the st. Petersburg workshop of plotnikovo. A legendary guitar, as misha boyarsky said, its for the urban romancer, its something here, but its sixstring, and not a sevenstring one, but both razenbaun and boyarsky were depicted with it, who . Yes, who hasnt depicted with her . Whiskey. Mencatcher is a product of the stellar group. Andrei mironov, alisa freindlikh, Sergei Solovyov, sergei davlatov. Plotnikov has only one unproduced photograph of the st. Petersburg cycle, joseph brodsky. Here is this photograph that i came up with, one wall with a window, these walls are full of books, i would sit below. The whole problem was only in the wideangle lens, which i did not have. And then once i suddenly find out that joseph is leaving, more to plotnikov and brodsky did not have a chance to meet. The surprising thing is that valery took the famous photograph of his close friend, poet, ballet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov the night before his departure, and well, he asked, how long will you stay . It turned out that misha was leaving for a long time, i thought, okay, ill make a quick sketch, lets break away from the farewell, we came out here, this is the last photograph of baryshnikov on russian soil. On may 30, if im not mistaken, there were already white nights, and from here, from a tripod, with a wide angle, i took a photo, which remained like this. Rare shots, plotnikov is not in the role of a photographer, in the role of the hero of the shooting, he is not used to being on the other side of the lens. Volodya, i understand that due to your youth, lets say, you dont Pay Attention to this , im not as integrated as i was 40 years ago, i ll wait a minute, i see everything, but now, no, now, now a closeup, i have what excites him is absolutely, living energy, and it is not youthful, but it is very alive, and i understand that this is an artist who has not yet fallen asleep, and he seems to be impulsive, and this causes delight, because for so long, a person cannot. It seems to me that at such a level of creativity, in the lens it is objectively cool, for the photographer vladimir shirokov, this is a landmark photo shoot, once, looking at plotnikovs photographs, he decided what profession he would choose, they warned me about his work fate, these covers of the soviet screen magazine, they were mesmerizingly beautiful, aesthetic, just some kind of pictorial canvas, which was always but then removed, no, what do you mean, so i come to shoot, without everything, without a camera, well and how do we make photographs, with what help, this is a mystery, even for me, this is aerobatics, he is a psychologist, he is a doctor, i dont know how he is, because there are no actual tricks or inventions in his photographs , unless he is a hooligan. There is a figure there, there emerges a figure, i understand who im looking at, i understand who im dealing with, and this is transmitted through him, hes a man, hes equal, plus a principle, and then, blacks, lets talk about plotnikovs integrity there are legends, he never photographed people he didnt like, never agreed with anyone politeness, never called his hometown leningrad, considering the revolution a catastrophe, although his father was a high party functionary, here is vostrikov, here is mikhail kalinins grandfather, here, by the way, why did this man have a wonderful surname a treasurer, but he became a molotov, here also, this boy from rzhum became kirov, and my father, who was itching to come here, plotnikovs father never lived with his mother, he had another. Tenyearold valera even learned about his death from the newspapers, i only remember how he came to us, asked if there was anyone at home, you know, they were encrypted like that somehow, no, dad, no, and we got up, but we saw each other very rarely, was it fate or a coincidence, but valery himself did not live with one of his four children, only his adopted daughter grew up before his eyes, my first to die. When sashka first saw her father, she just left here from the dacha, all the rest, unfortunately, the children saw me like that, thank god, they treat me there, well , lets say, tolerantly, sometimes even with love, but in in general, grozno, as a boy valery was mostly left to his own devices, his mother worked and was involved in social activities. Me, thats what i felt, he was big, she was, of course, madly in love with chaps, that is, if we had dirty palettes, everything in general, you know, there were white stockings, socks, there were trousers, english cut, woolen, gray, the brushes were washed, everything was laid out, plotnikov met mikhail shimyakin at the art school, where he entered in 1953, he was different from many, so to speak, we were a little untied, hooligans, valery was so prim, its difficult to surprise mikhail shimyakin with anything , much less frighten him, known for his extravagance, but plotnikov managed to do it, however, when they were both already adults during a photo shoot, he brought me into the yard, this it was only at that time that for the first time i was allowed to come to st. Petersburg for. 24 hours for two days, i wanted the texture and misha shimyakin to be equally well worked out, well, even look, even now you can see, you see, this dry brick , he is not suits me, and when you water it, it seems to become a little more saturated, they take it out of their workshop, which was not far away, which means. A tank of gasoline, which means a canister in general, starts behind me, sitting me on the table in front of the wall, watering, that means, generally the wall, that means, from this canister, well, i, i think that. This is gasoline, knowing, so to speak, that he has a lot of cockroaches in his head, that means, i think, yeah, that means that in general he decided to me shoot against the backdrop of a wall of fire, and god forbid , so to speak, my back will even catch fire, my vest, i asked misha, i said, well, come closer , stand up, like this, here, hes there, by the way, on a hundred uh, on a chair, yes, from my workshop, and misha is like this all the time, just like this , so we got together one day, i said no, valer , i wont act like that, he came up and said, here, here, smell the water, despite the difference in temperament, at art school, plotnikov and shimyakin became Close Friends , we were simultaneously expelled from secondary art school, at that time we were taught to be realists, and of course, he received bad luck, thats how it all ended. Very badly, although now in his interviews he blames me that i seduced him, which means i ruined him, i showed him with vangoghs paintings, reproductions, he turned to the left, and him as a leftist, which means in general , they were thrown out, so to speak, along with the scoundrel shimyakin, after the expulsion, valera and misha diverged, although plotnikov did not stop drawing, he acquired a new hobby, cinema. Some kind of organization we organized at linfilm, an amateur studio, you could use the card index of the acting department of venfilm, and i found a photograph of such a cute boy in a skullcap, i say, heres a good boy, let him come, uh, i called him, at that time Sergei Solovyov was 13 years old, Valery Plotnikov was 14. I think, well, how many times have i auditioned, ill try again, i go into the room , where they are sitting, mostly in general, my age, which means children, im not afraid of this word, 14 years old, the door opened, a boy without a yubette came in, who was not as nice and friendly as in the photo, quite the opposite, i say, what dont you like, he says, maybe its smoky here, or something, i i say, well, maybe someone smoked, what, and he says, no, nothing, i just know that art is not made in smoke, said the boy without a cap, everyone understood that the boy without a cap has the worst character, they showed him an ashtray, and there was such a stone fool, the boy took this ashtray, like a prick, and just threw it there on the avenue, thats good, but he got to this point, and suddenly he wanted to smile, valery, i, never, if you Pay Attention, i no one smokes in the frame and no one, but rarely no one smiles at the exceptions, great, great, but many of them drank and had a snack in the frame of Valery Plotnikov, the exhibition was called, have a drink, have a snack, brought to this exhibition, completely different characters, which, well, it happened with me, thats who drinks , who has a snack, who does both at the same time, im always with him with glasses, with glasses, with snacks, this is a disgrace, because i also have some kind of profession, he always ignored it, it was shirmin who ran to for some shooting, by the way, i think i was shooting girls to model, maybe thats why i ran in. Here are the girls right away, shurik, shurik, here, will you drink something . He says, he only drinks vodka, so they poured him vodka, but im not offended , because in this there is also an element of hope for immortality, well, all the time the beautiful faces of brilliant people, people go, people go, genius, since i was sleeping too liter so to speak, a little in delays, but all this would not have been possible if not for the fateful meeting with Sergei Solovyov. That evening we went home from the film, well, we walked, the rain began to fall, some kind of fine drizzling rain, so we talked about this, about that, about the fifth, about the tenth, some kind of life. Adult concepts, it began with this rain, seryozha and i were already on the exact perspective that he is a director, i. Solovyov taught a friend how to take photographs, so as not to expose the film when rewinding, he had to hide in the darkest place of a communal apartment. I taught him how to reel in the dark, in the toilet, on the toilet, everything was done in the dark, you had to go into toilet, turn off the light in the apartment, and there he is, but they failed to enroll in avgik together. Plotnikov was drafted into the army, he served for a year in the northern navy, if you ask me about what life deceived me in, then one of the main deceptions, the hardest deceptions, is that valerka and i did not work. In 1964, plotnikov entered the Camera Department at ghika and moved to moscow. Leaving his commonlaw wife nina, the hermitage restorer and little daughter yulia in st. Petersburg. Here is yulia in peredelkina with her brother stepa and sister ksyusha. Valery does not like to share details of his personal life. Now he communicates warmly with his eldest daughter, but prefers not to talk about his youthful romance. This, this. Is a separate story, i think this is for next time, so yulia is wonderful , she graduated from the academy of arts, by the way, in her time, the faculty of art, management, if im not mistaken, here she is in her time while she was simply a unique beer specialist, at vgik plotnikov quickly realized that his real vocation was not camera work, but photography, he took pictures. Students, teachers, guests of the institute, we met in 1967 , when i first came to ovgik, i was terribly pressed, i was so afraid, so he managed to photograph me, i didnt know that he of me, many years later , he gave me this photograph, im there in a white suit, in fishnet tights, in my fifth year at geek, valery worked as a cameraman on the film the noble nest, andrey. Konchalovsky, on the set he found time to practice photography, there was a lot of hay there, he he says, lie down, please, i say, why, he says, well, lie down, i lay down, that means he laid out my hair like this, thats why he was fiddling with something for a long time, in general, gradually i left i stopped thinking about what was going on, so he took this one, its a little mystical , several famous people tried to repeat this portrait, they also took pictures in the hay, the models were wonderful, but there was no photographer , his look, his eyes, that s why none of this experience worked out, from the cinema. A free career photographer, i remember that he worked for uncle vanya, he was filming in the pavilion, on location, these are my favorite photographs these are from uncle vanya, when there is a forest and im standing between the trees, and i had to work, work, so that i have a family and some obligations , but thank god, in general somehow it all worked out, she said that in moscow there is an apartment where the original hangs in rubles, and for me in rubles, here i am i thought, well, what about the original, which i dont know, this original, its just a poster for a home concert, it is actually signed in rubles. And although vrubels original was just a poster, the meeting with the owner of the apartment turned out to be fateful. Irina and valery began to live together. At that time, the young photographer plotnikov did not yet have his own studio; almost all the famous photographs of that period were taken by him in the kitchen of the sobinovs apartment. We have small children there, i dont know how they are now, no, thats all. No one is sleeping, who is there, mom, no, not mom, who is there, now the son of valery and irina lives in this apartment. With my family, they were never allowed in here film crews, they made an exception only for us, its unimaginable, once upon a time there was practically the first studio here, well , at least this was a former kitchen and servants room, they managed to adapt it as a pavilion, well, now its stebas, yeah, only this piece of tiled floor reminds us of the past. This is where the famous footage of Vladimir Vysotsky and marina vlady in cuba was filmed. When i was filming vysotsky in 1975, i opened nasezhs window. Volodya sang here, and at full power, that is, its just like a concert, i imagine i can imagine that ordinary soviet people there were thinking, oh, theres someone playing. A tape recorder , if only they knew that it was vysotsky himself singing to them solo, i dont like, fatal outcome, i never get tired of life, i dont like any time of the year, when cheerful songs are not sung, one of these photographs has become a symbol of the relationship between vysotsky and vladi; in it, as valery says, the real volodya is visible. I just asked marina to say comb these hair like i say spanie ears there, just a little bit back and marina became his comb her hair, and since the light was already on, and marina was Still Standing so well, if only she had been a little to the right and she would have blocked vysotsky, if i marina had moved, this absolutely wonderful kind of childish expression would have gone away, condition, i really love this photograph, plotnikov called this series of photographs serenade, volodya has an absolutely wonderful text , do you want me to dedicate a serenade to you, who else will dedicate a serenade to you, i say, let s develop thoughts, though for some reason he sings to me from top to bottom, not from bottom to top, like real. But it doesnt matter, it was big, it was a long shoot in this kitchen, here, only a year later, the famous shots of marina vladi in outfits from Vyacheslav Zaitsev were taken. Then valery specially covered it with hollow paper to hide the already familiar tiles. Marina and valery still maintained a warm relationship, although many expected that after the auction at which vladi sold vysotskys photographs, they would stop communicating. And some comrades told me, well , sue the vlad marine, what it has right, without asking your permission to sell your things , i say, you know, in order to somehow disgrace marina about this, to sort things out, thank you that she really helped him in general, that all this happened so wonderfully, in her last, like a poem , is all this. I have been alive for 12 years and god bless you. The last shots of plotnikov with vysotsky. Farewell shots. On the night of july 25 , 1980, Vladimir Semenovich passed away. On this day, Valery Plotnikov rode to his theater on a taganka to make another photo session. On the way to the theater, i met some acquaintances who told him that vysotsky was no longer there. I didnt believe it, i arrived, there was a photograph of vysotsky in a mourning frame near the theater. Valery filmed this entire mournful day. Shots taken from above from the theater windows spread all over the world. Oleg yankovsky, eduard volodarsky, Andrei Mironov visited the kitchen of the sobinovs apartment. Several square meters and thousands of photographs, of all the home filming , only his son, styopa, was allowed to be present, and the boy once filmed here with vysotsky, and i somehow dropped the camera here, for which the camera was on a tripod, and he talked and talked and hurt me, when stepan grew up, he began to help his father during filming. I remember the story with silikchenko, again, i dont know why, but i remember it, maybe because i feel some kind of involvement. The portrait of irina kubchenko with a bouquet of flowers became for carpenters. One of the most expensive unique ones, it literally took a whole year from concept, lets say, to implementation, because initially, while walking here in arkhangelskoye, i saw a wonderful, absolutely beautiful sunset, when exactly according to this, here a huge orange sun was setting somewhere in the valley, i saw some cheesecakes during the week, i said, lets go to arkhanelsko, take this photo, valera in general. Takes very beautiful pictures photographs in an aesthetic sense and, uh, hes preparing for them and of course he was looking, and we arrive, well, maybe in a week, in two, and it turns out that the sun is already setting there behind the forest, behind the grove. Plotnikov decided to return to photography a year later, but the shot with the setting sun it didnt work out that way. We come here, the rain is pouring down, its just, excuse me, like a bucket, but were building this composition , we were in arkhangelsk the day, the weather was so cloudy, and im just about to start shooting, here on the right and on the left, you can see it from these alleys, then a huge number of excursionists simply pour out, all the participants, besides ira and dad, they were distributed so that everyone stood on the stairs and did not let people in so that they would not go out and get into the frame, and even in this, lets say, its my luck that there is no sun here, that there is only ira kupchenko. Absolutely stunning, flexible, beautiful, thin, tender, amazing. Valery is used to working in any conditions. There was no required costume, it was invented on the spot and created from what was at hand. The photographer collected props from all over the city, and sometimes improvised. Again, it seems that the instruction will be read, judging by the tone. I only asked tolya solonitsyn, this was supposed to be the cover, tolya, bring some of the things there so that we can look, okay, i came in this little light, i say, and also something, and he says, everything is jack, as i understand it, i took a few shots there , i understand that well, this is not a cover, the image did not add up, valery went out into the street to walk to think, a lady is walking with this dog, i i say, please forgive me, but you have this doc, i say, how calm he is there , he says, well, yes, in general, and i say, could you help me, i need to film an actor , the woman thought the request was strange, but she agreed to give valerie her dog for 2 hours for filming, the doc turned out to be in color slonisinskys christmastide, usually they would be black and white, but it wouldnt go at all, or just light or. Just black, too , everything, but hes just so tactful, with that red hair, thats all, but sometimes circumstances worked against photographer, i noticed this house with these platbands, i then drove up to the owners and said, can i take it and warn them that im coming to photograph, yes, ill come, heres gundare to photograph, of course, Natalya Gundareva and Valery Plotnikov we arrived at the house at the appointed time, the photographer realized that the shooting was in jeopardy, the owners felt ashamed of the shabby appearance of the window, and they decided to replace the frame with a new one. Thank god, they couldnt do the frame, because there was carving, there was already artistic production, but it was a monstrous frame, and since there are deadlines, i cant do anything, so i went to the screen, with this terrible vigorous yellow orange frame, but when we did it with styopa, because styopa is the author, the artist of my albums, i told him this story, i said everything, as he says now, what problems, Something Like that poked some buttons on the computer, i still remember how it happened, and the whole frame became old , for me, photography of carpenters is a sign of equality, because while there are now a large number of brilliant masters of photography, truly brilliant, i started at a time when photography all people of art associated their surname with the name Valery Plotnikov. If you fell into the lens of Valery Plotnikov, then you were automatically considered a celestial; a number of plotnikovs photographs, such as this one, are not only. Artistic, but also historical value, this is the wedding of laura, yablochka and taninig, which, well, its obvious, took place in griboyedovsky for. Toningu, screenwriter of films from the golden fund of cinema, coauthor of fillini and favorite playwright antonioni omarcourt, photo enlargement, ginger and fred , nostalgia. His wedding with mass film editor laura yablochkina became a sensation in creative circles, but only a select few were allowed to attend. I came as a witness to this wedding, michelangelo. Neon and on my side there was andrei torkovsky, they are all standing here on on this rug, here a lady comes in, from here, a monstrous violation of etiquette and all the rules, and says antonioni get off the rug, the rug is only for married couples, antonioni has a homeric fit of laughter, he covered his mouth with a handkerchief, because tunino was whispering to him from under his mustache, laugh , to think that we are frivolously getting married, they will take us away from here now , anywhere at all, it was very difficult for valeria to film, because antonionni stood hiding his laughter with a handkerchief in his mouth, pritanina later told me, and im filming all this, he says , listen, you have a unique shot, because well, this really cant be called laughter, well, lets say, okay , the halflaughing antonionni, he says, this never happened, antonion in general. Never wanted to be photographed, he kicked everyone out with such a royal gesture, all the photographers, viya, he said , and when he saw valeras photographs, he allowed, he was allowed, the only photographer in russia was allowed to take a photograph. In an udmurd wedding they always brought honey; the main decoration of the udmurd table is the goose, a symbol of prosperity; if you find a ring, it means youll be under the same bride, lets choose, we have a chest, but we wont just give it to you, well , are you ready for a real racon, oh, that it was possible, and then the producer will tell you, lets play a wedding, and you are still in utgurt, svan, vai, we are playing a wedding, our premiere is on sunday on the first. Old barrel cognac, a product of stetel group. Valery and irina had a second child, daughter ksenia, but this did not save the relationship; a year later plotnikov left the family. Ksyusha was completely gone, mom and dad, so to speak, separated somewhere, just i was about five years old, i went with my dad later, but it was just separate, cuckoo. To put it mildly, there was less communication with his father, after breaking up with irina , plotnikov continued to work a lot, exhibitions of his photographs were opened all over the world, we once made one joint exhibition together, there was such an experiment, not all the heroes coincided, but very many coincided, this ill tell you, it was a funny story, because you could compare, you see one friend and another friend there. During one of the exhibitions that took place in the actors house in 1997, valery met the love of his life. I had a wonderful