Robert Rozhdestvensky met writer and film director Vasily Shukshin in 1972. At the same time, they were both staying for about 40 days in the Moscow Central Clinical Hospital for treatment of an exacerbation of ulcer. During that time, Shukshin and Rozhdestvensky became good friends and thereafter went together to the Zheleznovodsk sanatorium to improve their health. When Vasily Shukshin passed away, Rozhdestvensky dedicated this poem to him:
Robert Rozhdestvensky and Vasily Shukshin
Creation period
1972; a 2012 copy
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15x21,5 cm
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Robert Rozhdestvensky and Vasily Shukshin
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To his last threshold
he was driven
fast
By his Altai soul
and his kind heart…
Give me, please, an answer,
Stop
your praising cry,
did you read his writings
only
when he died?!
he was driven
fast
By his Altai soul
and his kind heart…
Give me, please, an answer,
Stop
your praising cry,
did you read his writings
only
when he died?!
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Both Rozhdestvensky and Shukshin were born in Altai. The poet was born in Kosikha, a regional center of Altai Krai and he always remembered his small homeland. The largest museum dedicated to Rozhdestvensky was established here. And, in the village of Srostki, Shukshin’s homeland, the Vasily Shukshin All-Russian Memorial Museum-Reserve successfully functions, as well.
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Both of them were enthusiastic and faithful people, Robert Ivanovich genuinely believed that what the Communist Party was doing was righteous. He believed in these concepts, like ‘conscience’, ‘friendship’, and ‘ideals’. Rozhdestvensky had a very wide social circle which included war veterans, cosmonauts, scientists, doctors, and athletes. He was eager to know everything from the primary source, as he could write only about his own experiences. <…> Shukshin was very similar. Dip your pen in the truth — he would say. But he believed in other things, as he saw how much evil has been done and is being done in the village. That’s how they were created — Stepan Razin, the Lyubavins, his short stories about modern village life, the drama of those who cut ties with their own roots and move to an urban area. Shukshin believed in communal values, in the righteousness of the people’s concept of pochvennichestvo (support of complete emancipation of serfdom) and in the nature of the Russian person.
says Igor Korotkov, director of the Altai State Museum of the History of Literature, Art and Culture
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The All-Russian “Altai Days of Shukshin Festival” takes place annually, at the end of July, at the mount Picket, where a monument dedicated to Vasily Shukshin was erected. In the village of Kosikha, which is Rozhdestvensky’s homeland, there is a Memorial Museum, which annually, in the last ten days of June, becomes the center of the “Robert Rozhdestvensky Literary Festival”.
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Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation
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Robert Rozhdestvensky and Vasily Shukshin
Creation period
1972; a 2012 copy
Dimensions
15x21,5 cm
Technique
photographic paper, photographic print
Collection
Exhibition
0
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