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Matilda (2017) Alexey Uchitel

The love story of Tsar Nicholas II and ballerina Mathilde Kschessinska has been the subject of public indignation for more than a year. Uchitel's movie faced many obstacles during its production, including checks carried out by the public prosecutor’s office (on suspicions of breach of laws on the sanctity of religion), public accusations of defamation and desecration, the burning of theatrical posters and a portrait of the director and other protests actions... Читать дальше...

Sergei Dovlatov was born on Sept. 3 in Ufa (845 miles east of Moscow). He is still one of the most popular Russian writers of the late 20th century. Dovlatov’s books are full of real place names. Everything in his prose is set where the writer himself lived, whether that be St. Petersburg, Vienna, or New York. In the writer’s life, literature and destiny were closely interwoven.