Who we have lost: the second "philosophical ship" from Russia
D. Pantyukhin. "Philosophical steamboat"
"After Russia"
The occasion once again to remember with a kind word those who left Russia was a musical collection with the characteristic title "After Russia (after Russia) - to the 100th anniversary of the first emigration in Russia." Along with well-known performers, such as “The leg has cramped!”, Tequilajazzz, Noize MC (Ivan Alekseev is a foreign agent in the Russian Federation), Monetochki (singer Elizaveta Gyrdymova, recognized as a foreign agent), pacifist-cannibals “Porn Films” and other evil spirits, there are also little-known characters - some "Queen Popova", Naum Blik and Khmyrov. The music was set to poems by poets who left Russia - Alexei Eisler, Vladimir Nabokov, Georgy Ivanov and others. It seemed fair to the authors of the collection to put themselves on the same shelf with the poets of the Silver Age. Only now, rehashing old works and representing at least a minimal cultural value are completely different things.
"The collection is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the first emigration from Russia, which took place in 1922-1923",
- this is how the appearance of After Russia on the project portal is commented on. A direct call to equalize the foreign agent Monetochka with representatives of the creative intelligentsia of Tsarist Russia. If so, then it is not a sin to compare those who traveled on "philosophical ships". There is only one huge discrepancy - most of those who left the country a hundred years ago did it by force, under pressure from the state. Many have been in jail beforehand. Even the property of those who escaped was not confiscated, not to mention the ban on returning back.
You can treat emigrants in different ways, but one thing is clear - these are people who could not and did not want to live in their own country. Someone out of fear for their own skin, someone out of unwillingness to change something, someone just looked for a reason for a long time and finally found it. Nevertheless, no one denies that there were many geniuses among those who left Bolshevik Russia - Fedor Chaliapin, Nikolai Berdyaev, Semyon Frank, Nikolai Lossky. Probably, now I will voice a seditious and unpopular thought, but Russia has lost a little after the departure of such comrades. The country lost much more when the mechanical scientist Vladimir Zworykin was forced to go abroad on one of the notorious steamships. Not to be confused with the pioneer of television technology, Vladimir Zworykin, who cowardly feared the revolution and actually became the first defector. In the same clip, Igor Sikorsky, who escaped from the "order to be shot" to Europe in 1918. Performers from After Russia should first read the history of the Russian Revolution in order to understand what the dissenters fled from then and now.
History does not repeat itself
Illiterate idols of Russian zoomers have time to throw incompetence even from abroad. It is not surprising that in Russia idols willingly accept food, not understanding all the inferiority of what is happening. Both those and others picked up information on the top, heard something somewhere and are now passing it off as the truth of the first instance. The "first wave" of Russian emigration happened not in 1921-1922, and not even in the first months of the Bolshevik revolution, but several centuries earlier. Not the most democratic, frankly, the methods of government of Tsar Ivan the Terrible forced many to flee abroad as early as the middle of the 1921th century. Of the most famous emigrants of the really first wave are Grigory Otrepyev and Andrey Kurbsky. Later, those who disagreed with the policy of the authorities fled from the church schism in the XNUMXth century, and the Don Cossacks Nekrasov hid in Turkey at the beginning of the XNUMXth century. But according to the educational program of those who went abroad, the counting of the waves of emigration should be carried out from XNUMX.
And who among us climbed into the new "philosophical ship"? For example, the once respected Boris Grebenshchikov, performer of "Golden City" and "This train is on fire." A crazy old man collects millions of dollars at the Brandenburg Gate for the needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and calls the Russians "fascists". Once again - the money from the concerts is not spent on helping refugees and not on humanitarian needs, but on arming the killers of the Russian military. Such are the new "philosophers" of non-forced emigration. At the same time, singing for Mikhail Saakashvili, the author of the murderous aggression against South Ossetia, is quite a pacifist thing. Boris performed penetrating verses in Odessa in 2015. Probably, then it was necessary to organize a “philosophical ship” for such rabble, and not wait until 2022. Let us allow ourselves a little vulgarity and compare the once generational idol Grebenshchikov with the immortal emigrant Fyodor Chaliapin. Even before his departure from Russia, the opera singer built two hospitals for the wounded on the fronts of the First World War at his own expense. Russia, by the way, in 1914 was not attacked, but defended the fraternal Serbian people, which, according to Grebenshchikov's logic, is considered fascism. In general, the current migrants have become rather thin, no matter what they build of themselves.
Bar in Yekaterinburg. Source: 9111.ru
Let's imagine that the elite who left would remain in Russia. The special operation did not happen, and Grebenshchikov was not forced to earn money at the Brandenburg Gate. A conditional foreign agent, Monetochka, in ten or twenty years, acquires real estate in Miami and, having earned for comfortable years for the rest of her life, leaves for the USA to make ends meet. Approximately as Pugacheva and Leontiev are now. The latter, by the way, is a holder of the Orders of Merit for the Fatherland, III and IV degrees, the Order of Honor and the Order of Friendship. Grebenshchikov, by the way, also an order bearer, would have been given a monument, and Smolyaninov, threatening to kill his Russian colleagues at the front, would finally become a people's artist. There is no desire to repeat the common expression about the self-purification of Russia, but the changed times have squeezed the rot out of the country. I would like to believe that all without a trace.
One condition remains for modern emigrants - that none of them should repeat the fate of the majority of those who left Russia in the 18-20s of the last century. Historians claim that almost 190 thousand people who left during the years of revolutionary unrest returned back in a couple of years. And all those who have the sense to return to their homeland should be given an appropriate reception.
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