The childhood of Sergei Prokhanov

Prokhanov's hometown is Moscow. The family lived near the House of Pioneers, thanks to which Seryozha could try himself in almost everything, visiting the mugs offered by the House of Pioneers. The theater has always come first. Quite successfully, he studied music and sang. Seryozha even appeared once on television. He had a very sonorous voice, they said that Prokhanov could achieve a lot in singing.

The first vivid disappointment occurred when Seryozha did not become a laureate at the Musical Spring competition. It was a big psychological trauma for him. Around that time, his voice began to break.

Gingerbread man - Mustachioed babysitter - Sergey Prokhanov

Prokhanov's family, as he himself put it, is proletarian. The father was a worker. The future actor inherited temperament and irrepressibility from his father, who has always been the soul of the company. From his mother, he inherited a dislike for window dressing. Prokhanov graduated from the physics and mathematics school, he liked the exact sciences.

In parallel, he studied at the theater studio. The young man chose the Shchukin school for himself and became his student. Sergei got on the course of Vera Lvova. Many called Prokhanov radiant at that time. It was a wonderful time. The students of this course were called nothing more than “artists of the holiday”, they conducted TV shows on TV, they could cheer people up.

The beginning of the filmography of Sergei Prokhanov

Even at the school, Sergei began acting. His first picture is "Family, like a family." His role was small. The aspiring actor played Lena's friend, who was present at the New Year's party. As a student, he also played in "Yulka", "Merry Kaleidoscope", starred as a pioneer leader in the film "Oh, this Nastya!" and etc.

It turns out that after graduating from the theater school in 1974, Sergei was already actively filming. His first theater was the Mossovet Theater, where he was invited as a graduate of the school. There he successfully made his debut on the same stage with honored masters, however, being successful in the cinema, Sergei played there for a number of years only minor roles.

The real turning point occurred when the audience saw the actor in the title role in the production of "Sasha". From that moment on, he was considered a serious actor in the theater. It would seem that everything was going well, but at that time such eminent directors as Viktyuk, Chernyakhovsky and Ginkas left the theater.

The best films of Sergei Prokhanov

Sergey was actively filming, managing to participate in three or four films in a year, he played a lot on stage. Success came to Prokhanov after he played the main role in The Mustachioed Nanny. He felt what it means to be famous. He was offered to play, most often, cheerful and active guys. He was offered a similar role in the film Breakfast on the Grass. There he was a leader in a pioneer camp and was again engaged in raising children. Starting in 1981, the roles offered were for the most part already minor or episodic.

"Chantecleer" at the Luna Theatre. Interview with Prokhanov

At that time, he played in the films "Leapfrog", "First Equestrian", "Sashka", "Wingspan", "Feat of Odessa", "White Crows", etc.

Prokhanov received a prominent role in the film, which the audience saw in 1991. Its name is "Genius". Starring Alexander Abdulov. Sergei played a speculator named Kostya.

The actor finally decided to part with the movie after the filming of the detective film "Wanderers' Halt" was completed, where he again had a small role.

The actor believed that the cinema was dead, and he had nothing to do in it. He completely switched to work in the theater. However, viewers also saw Prokhanov on the screen as a TV presenter. He hosted a program about the cinema "Know Ours". Sergey thought that over time it would turn into an almanac, he planned to create several interesting headings, but in reality the TV show began to look like a TV quiz show about certain films. Despite the fact that he liked working as a TV presenter, he left television.

Sergei Prokhanov at the Theater of the Moon

The actor decided to create a creative cooperative "Masquerade" at the theater. When a production of the famous musical "Jesus Christ Superstar" began to be prepared in his native theater, his cooperative took over the provision of the corps de ballet, without which this musical would not have been possible. I must say that as the head of the cooperative, Prokhanov did an excellent job with this task. The audience saw the musical in 1992. The co-director was Prokhanov. It should be noted that this production remains popular to this day and goes on the stage of the same theater.

When, as a director, Prokhanov started staging Byzantium on the stage of his native theater, it turned out that he had to wait in line to get into the repertoire. You could wait a year or two. From that moment it became clear that we needed our own theater. This would immediately give Sergei the opportunity to act independently.

Sergei Prokhanov at present

Prokhanov collected all the money earned by the cooperative in order to open his own theater. He found the place quite by accident. This is a basement not far from the Mossovet theater. The name of his theater is "Theater of the Moon".

So Sergei became a director. He processes all productions of the theater himself. Prokhanov believes that from that moment he became completely different, they were no longer responsible for him, but he was responsible for his troupe.

In the "Theatre of the Moon" for more than twenty years of its history, many famous actors have played. All productions are emotional and sensual, but not without eroticism. Prokhanov does not tolerate anything simple, he believes that in the theater the audience should feel a dream, should see another world. In the "Theater of the Moon" there are no performances about poverty, about some kind of "Vaska" and "Petka". The very name of the performances speaks of their airiness and cosmic nature: "Lyromania", "Little Moon", "Tender Night", "Thais Shining".

Sergey Prokhanov in the Alarm Clock program

The Prokhanov Theater has a film studio. Its name is "Moon-film". Prokhanov starred in the title role in the very first film. According to the plot, the director says goodbye to his theater and transfers it to another leader.

Personal life of Sergei Prokhanov

Sergei Borisovich met his future wife when he was vacationing at a friend's dacha. Her name is Tatyana. She is the granddaughter of two famous marshals - Vasilevsky and Zhukov. The girl then studied in the tenth grade. They started dating. Tatyana entered the institute. They married when she was eighteen.

When the newly married Tatyana and Sergey received their first two-room apartment, Sergey removed almost all the interior partitions during the renovation. The family was even threatened with eviction for this. So the newlyweds lived in a spacious apartment until the children appeared, and they did not need a nursery. We had to rebuild the walls. This time, Sergei Borisovich made redevelopment so that he even got a small office.

The couple lived together for twenty-five years. There were different times in their lives, the acting profession could not but affect family life. The wife took care of their two children. The eldest daughter became a costume designer. She works in the theater with her father.

Now Prokhanov is divorced. He lives alone.

11/14/2005, Something about Prokhanov. Agent of God

Dmitry Galkovsky

[...] By origin, Prokhanov is a typical member of the sixties, moreover, a stale man of the sixties, of the second or even third sort. He graduated from the Aviation Institute, played the fool in forestry. He began his career in the 60s as a journalist, tried to squeeze in here and there - nothing worked. The horizon was blocked by the backs of talented competitors.

I had to climb on the backs - Prokhanov began his career with patriotic roulades about provocations on the Soviet-Chinese border. The journalist's roulades were loud, but clumsy. However, for a start it went down. The impudent writer crawled into the Writers' Union and got hooked on the bread theme - the chanting of the Soviet army. Differences from other party agitators, who oh how did not want to break down in production, Prokhanov had.

Firstly, he sang not just the Soviet army, but the modern Soviet army. It was difficult. The heroes of Afghanistan did not have much success, and censorship completely cut off the wings of the dubious colonels. Wings, let's say, were fly, the colonels could not fly. But they buzzed. In order not to buzz, the wings were amputated with tweezers: “In your submarine, midshipman Zhovtoblochenko dies from radiation from radiation. The feat of a Komsomol member must be changed - not from radiation, but from a fire, and does not die, but receives moderate burns.

Secondly, Prokhanov went to the library and learned a few foreign words. The words were beautiful, but incomprehensible. For example "cybertronics". Such terminology was not used by other Soviet agitators; literary critics started talking about a special Prokhanov style. It was necessary to straighten the paper “where necessary” for the style, it was not allowed to get out just like that. "Not by statute." It looks like Prokhanov straightened out the paper. According to Voice of America, Sovietologists began to talk about the "nightingale of the General Staff", the Soviet militarist writer. Apart from the Sovietologists, of course, no one knew Prokhanov - he was completely uninteresting to the reading public.

After perestroika, Prokhanov, for obvious reasons, was very offended and fell into criticism. The transition from the "nightingale of the General Staff", writing graphomaniac agitation in Brezhnev's birdless, to the oppositionist of the era of the "execution of the White House" is quite logical. Both the general message and the specific execution are clear. The performance went on at the level corresponding to Prokhanov's talent: police whistles, hoarse barking, bazaar shrieks, cock panegyrics. Nevertheless, it was at this time that a reader came to our hero. In the era of Chumak and Kashpirovsky, the people were at the stage of unafraid idiots. Everything worked, and everything worked. As you know, Chumak was just silent for five minutes on the air. They believed. Prokhanov was yelling in The Day. They also believed. Masonic sabbaths taking place in the dungeon under the Ostankino pond, CIA agents, the world behind the scenes, octopus-like oligarchs with a certain nationality and indeterminate gender were used.

All this disgrace was opposed by the minor sixties, gradually covered with age spots. As an ampil-like squealer, Prokhanov bit off a cozy mink in the state cheese, and, it seemed, would have sat in it as a household mouse until the second coming. Warm, damp, delicious. Eat cheese, get pigmented at least in three layers, and from time to time squeak "from the depths" about the horrors of the Yeltsin regime and the world Jewish Masonic conspiracy.

And then there was an inexplicable somersault. A mouse made of cheese made a jet jump on the chest of an octopus-like London oligarch. Right off the bat, a true Russian patriot turned into a true friend of Boris Abramovich Berezovsky, communication reached the level of an intimate whisper and early morning cooing. FRIENDS. In general, Admiral Kolchak is sitting, talking with Georgy Valentinovich Plekhanov, how best to equip Russia (also a fact).

I must say that Prokhanov, as any journalist should, writes graphomaniac poetry. Let me give you an example for laughs. From the "pre-Berezovsky period":

Berezovsky plays in the casino,
Dancing with castanets Gusinsky,
Khodorkovsky is sweating in the Finnish bath,
All Russian goods have been brought to Manhattan.
Russia stands in a torn shirt,
And keeps the Russian head on the chopping block.
The Chechen ax shines in the air,
The diamond of a Jewish banker glitters.
Since I have ice in my heart
One grenade launcher became my friend.
Fly, fly sad grenade
Beyond the Terek, across the Danube - to NATO headquarters.

Bless me, Vladyka John,
To cover me with a saving fog
And I got to Basayev's base,
What is right next to the LogoVAZ house.
And let the enemies hear with a sensitive ear,
How do I release a devoted "fly".
Buzz, buzz, merry minx,
May the enemy not live to see the new moon.
Let it shatter like a rotten vase
The Stucco Palace of LogoVAZ Receptions.
And I will disappear, terrible anonymous.
So we will save Moscow from explosions.
Let Berezovsky be touched by a “fly”,
And immediately he will have jaundice.

All this is wonderful. We can say that Prokhanov is a corrupt bastard, a graphomaniac and a scoundrel, capable of doing anything and in any sequence for a certain amount. But there are some objections to this assumption. After all, Alexander Andreevich is a representative of the Soviet establishment, is engaged in political activities, and is a member of high offices. In the media, he is presented as a "complex controversial figure." Gelman is right, Prokhanov's somersaults do not distinguish him from the environment of the capital's political and cultural beau monde. And the age of a 65-year-old person, as they say, is “solid”. Obviously, we are talking not only about salivation reflexes, but also about a certain system of views, one might even say, a worldview. That is, Prokhanov can kiss Brezhnev's hands, yell into a megaphone at a Black Hundreds rally, play cricket on the estate of an Anglo-Russian oligarch and still remain himself. All these are just different manifestations of the same personality (and the personality, in my opinion, is not just simple, but downright single-celled).

Let's put Prokhanov on the microscope slide and turn the eyepiece.

Prokhanov's grandfather was one of the most active members of the English residency in the Russian Empire, Ivan Stepanovich Prokhanov. Mr. Prokhanov was also a publisher of newspapers and magazines, for systematic anti-state and anti-church activities he was exiled by the tsar to his native England. There he graduated from the theological college in Bristol. In 1898, Prokhanov returned to Russia, right off the bat he launched a large-scale subversive work. Through Bonch-Bruevich, Prokhanov maintained contacts with the Bolsheviks, and soon became the head of the Russian Baptists and one of the six vice-chairmen of their World Union.

In 1914, as direct accomplices of Germany, members of socialist subversive organizations and German spies, Prokhanov and his comrades were pressed a little. With the consent, approval and direct advice of England. The fact is that before the war, the British in every possible way provoked the Germans to go to war with Russia, a large number of pro-British organizations worked with Germany in the closest cooperation. But as soon as the German Empire bought into the purchase, she immediately had to deal with a single Anglo-French-Russian front, and numerous accomplices of the Germans in the rear of Russia and France were blocked by England in one week. The powerful pro-German (and in fact pro-British) International did not even utter a word.

“The VI All-Russian Congress of Christian Youth with the participation of Ivan Prokhanov gathered in 1921 in Tver. As soon as the participants started the planned program, on May 5, on the denunciation of the priest of the local Orthodox parish Vinogradov, who made his way to Tverskaya Gubchek as an investigator, 42 participants of the congress were arrested. 30 people were soon released, and 12 (including Prokhanov) were transferred to a forced labor camp for a period of one to three years. But three months later, the central authorities released them too.”

In the 1920s, the OGPU agent Prokhanov actively corrupted the Russian church, collaborating with the “living churchmen”. Quietly traveled around Europe and the Americas. In 1928, while in Canada, Prokhanov decided not to return to the USSR, while CONTINUED to be one of the most active and influential Soviet Protestants.

In his FOREIGN memoirs, Prokhanov, the first president of the All-Russian Council of Evangelical Christian Baptists, wrote:

“At the heart of the Bolshevik policy towards religious organizations was freedom for all, with the exception of those groups and the priesthood who participated in the political opposition to the new regime. One of the first steps of the Soviet government was a decree on the separation of church and state. In accordance with the proclaimed decree, the Orthodox Church was losing the financial support of the state ... Millions of rubles were withdrawn from church funds, and this undermined the livelihood of the Holy Synod, the Theological Academy and other church institutions. Most of the priests were removed from their ministry... Thus, the overthrow of the Orthodox Church was a significant achievement, the main basis of religious freedom...”

As for Prokhanov the grandson, his parents were fanatical Molokans, he himself also belongs to this denomination, although he speaks vaguely on religious topics. Vague but eloquent:

“Only rare people, returning to the Lord, open their weary, cut palms before Him, and there, among clay, dust, abomination, gore, a small particle of a truly precious experience pleasing to the Lord will sparkle. Then the Lord God will take this particle, say to his agent: “Thank you, God's servant Alexander. Rest now."

Prokhanov is not a provincial clicker at all. This is an "agent of God", a hereditary member of the Soviet elite. You just need to understand who these Lenins, Stalins, Alliluyevs, Litvinovs, Alexei Tolstoy, Chukovskys, Zamyatins, Kapitsa and Tutti Quanti are. These are English-oriented COLLABORATIONISTS who seized power as a result of the terrible catastrophe of 1917. Russia's new elite is a completely democratic elite. You can become a servant of London on your own initiative. Nimble Boris Abramovich has grown to such a level of betrayal himself. But Prokhanov… Prokhanov is a national-traitor HEREDITARY. He does not work for money. He loves money, he needs money, he has money. But not by bread alone. Prokhanov is a religious sectarian. At first glance, the sect to which he belongs is quite cosmopolitan. But this is only at first glance. In fact, it is paid for and directed by London, and this direction is completely anti-Russian.

Baptism itself is not a crime. But, being a member of the Protestant religious community, Prokhanov hides his faith and at the same time spreads chauvinistic slander, exposing Russians as xenophobes and Asian fanatics who bruise their foreheads in a special “Byzantine church”. In his newspaper, Prokhanov went so far as to publish an icon depicting Stalin. Baptists deny icons, they laugh at icons, they consider them idolatry. But damned Russians point blank do not see the Light of Truth. Instead of spiritual zeal in the cultural European church, they worship painted boards. So here you are, Asian Vanka, Stalin. Pray. There is also Eurasianism, Zoroastrianism, the Book of Veles, extrasensory perception and bioenergetics. All this in the Molokan shop of Prokhanov stirs and crawls. Fly in and buy Zavtra, the newspaper of Russian nationalists.

Prokhanov, it seems, is older and more impressive than the precocious Berezovsky. Conservative British do not like early maturing. But Judas HEREDITARY in business can be taken strongly, entrusted with a lot. So, in the Berezovsky-Prokhanov tandem, which appeared before the eyes of a stunned public, it is still unknown who is the eldest.

By the way, what are the religious views of Prokhanov's accomplice? At one time, neat Boris Abramovich decided to give himself a Christian upgrade. Like, Lawrence of Arabia converted to Islam, and I will convert to Orthodoxy. For a serious person (by the way, not serious). Accepted. What kind of "Orthodoxy" it was, who read about Savva Morozov and Dugin in VZGLYAD is easy to guess.

In conclusion, I will allow myself - on the rights of personally knowing Prokhanov - to give Alexander Andreevich a little advice. Since Profanov, sorry, Prokhanov, like all Baptists, loves slogans, I will formulate my advice briefly: “Suitcase! Railway station! England!" Everything was calculated well, you acted correctly. There is only one error. Russia is not Romania. Our country is stupid, but in 20 years of intellectual freedom, Russians have grown a lot. So far, I repeat, they are still much more stupid than the civilized peoples of Europe. But Russians are growing fast, they are learning. They have a great past. Much is not enough to learn, but only to remember. So pack a suitcase, Judas English, collect ... Slowly, quietly. There is still time. But it may come out very soon. Russians harness for a long time, but they drive fast. They can also roll. With the wind.

Date of Birth: 26.02.1938

Soviet, Russian prose writer, publicist, public figure. His works devoted to the author's understanding of current events in the socio-political life of Russia gained fame. The Afghan theme occupies a significant place in the writer's work.

Grandson of I. S. Prokhanov (head of the All-Russian Union of Evangelical Christians in 1908-1928). Prokhanov's ancestors, the Molokans, were exiled to Transcaucasia during the time of Catherine II. Born in Tbilisi. His father died near Stalingrad and Alexander grew up with his mother and grandmother. After school, Prokhanov entered the Moscow Aviation Institute, after which in 1960 he got a job in a design bureau. However, without having worked even a year, he gave up everything and left first for the Moscow region, and then for Karelia to work as a forester. Around this time, the beginning of the literary activity of the writer dates back. In 1964, Prokhanov returned to Moscow, got a job in the magazine Life of the Blind. In the late 60s, his stories began to be published and attracted attention. Since 1970, he worked as a correspondent for the newspapers Pravda and Literaturnaya Gazeta, specializing in coverage of military conflicts. As a war correspondent, Prokhanov visited all the "hot spots" of the planet: Afghanistan, Nicaragua, Cambodia, Angola, Kampuchea, Vietnam, etc. In 1971, Prokhanov's first book was published: "I'm on my way", in 1972 Prokhanov became a member of the Union writers of the USSR (on the recommendation of Yu. Trifonov). Since 1986, he has been actively writing articles for the magazines Young Guard, Our Contemporary, and Literaturnaya Gazeta. Since that time, the writer has energetically declared his political position in works about the events in Afghanistan and other "hot spots" of the planet. From 1989 to 1991, Prokhanov worked as the editor-in-chief of the Soviet Literature magazine. In December 1990 he created the newspaper The Day. In 1991, during the presidential elections in the RSFSR, Prokhanov was a confidant of candidate General Albert Makashov. During the August coup, Prokhanov supported the GKChP, was the author of the appeal “Word to the People” (July 1991), which was regarded as the GKChP manifesto. After a series of political publications, The Day was banned by the Ministry of Justice. In November 1993, Prokhanov organized a new newspaper, Zavtra, of which he is the editor-in-chief to this day (2009). In the 1996 presidential election, Prokhanov supported the candidacy of the Communist Party candidate Gennady Zyuganov. Twice - in 1997 and 1999, Prokhanov was attacked by unknown people, in the first of the attacks he received a concussion. Prokhanov is considered one of the leaders of the "left" opposition, supports the ideas of the National Bolshevik Party, but at the same time is a supporter of V. V. Putin. Prokhanov's anti-Israeli statements, as well as his calls for support for such movements as Hezbollah (Israel) and the Taliban (Afghanistan), received a wide response. He is fond of drawing in the style of primitivism. Collects butterflies. Married, has two sons and a daughter. One of the sons works as a photojournalist in the newspaper "Tomorrow".

Prokhanov's journalistic style is as metaphorical as his prose: "The National Bolshevik Party is an order that professes the religion of rebellion, sacrifice, devotion to the left idea, from which respectable clerks, weary of the red color, retreated, offering the people a green watermelon of collaborationism. Under these conditions, when the hemoglobin of the revolution gave way to the chlorophyll of conciliation - the lemon should have turned red."

Writer's Awards

Prize to them. K. Fedina (1980)
Lenin Komsomol Prize (1983)
Order of the Red Banner of Labor (1984)
Order of the Badge of Honor
Order of the Red Banner
Order of the Red Star
Prizes of the journals Znamya (1984), Our Contemporary (1990, 1998)
Gold medal to them. A. Fadeeva (1987)
Prize of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR (1988)
International Sholokhov Prize (1998)
Medal "Defender of Transnistria", (2001)
Award "I have the honor" (2001).
Prize "" for the novel Mr. Hexogen (2002)
(2009)

Bibliography

Village Letters (1971)
Burning Color (1972)
Grass Turns Yellow (1974)
In Your Name (1975)
Reflections of Mangazeya (1975)
Traveling Rose (1976)
Time is noon (1977)

Eternal City (1981)
Tree in the center of Kabul (1982)
In the islands hunter (1984)
Burning Gardens (1984)
Nuclear Shield (1984)
And Here Comes the Wind (1985)
On the Distant Frontiers (1985)
Lighter Blue (1985)


Armor Notes (1989)
600 years after the battle (1989)

Angel flew (1994)
Palace (1995)


The word carried through hell (collection of editorials by Prokhanov, drawings by G. Zhivotov and poems by E. Nefedov) (1999)


Cruiser Sonata (2004)

The ancestors of Alexander Prokhanov were expelled from Russia to Tbilisi back in the time of Catherine II. It was there that the future writer was born on February 26, 1938, but did not stay in his native city. After leaving school, he entered the Aviation Institute of the city of Moscow, which he graduated in 1960. After that, he worked as an engineer at a scientific research institute, and began writing poetry and prose in his last year of study at the institute. From 1962 and the next two years he got a job in Karelia as a forester. He is also engaged in the tourism business (works as a guide in the Khibiny). However, whatever Prokhanov did, literature was always in the first place for him - he was very fond of reading.

Since 1968, he began working as part of the Literaturnaya Gazeta team, and in 1970 he worked as a correspondent for it in Afghanistan, Cambodia, Nicaragua, Angola and many other places. It was Prokhanov who became the first reporter who described the events of Damansky Island, when the Soviet-Chinese border conflict took place there.

1972 brought Prokhanov membership in the SP of the USSR. This period became more working for him than creative - Alexander began to publish actively only in 1986, his first publications appear in the magazines Our Contemporary, Young Guard and Literaturnaya Gazeta. In 1989, he was appointed to the post of editor-in-chief of the Soviet Literature magazine, and in December 1990, Prokhanov began publishing his own newspaper, The Day, in which he was also the editor-in-chief.

September 1993 was a difficult time for Alexander Prokhanov. During this period, an article appeared in his newspaper openly accusing Boris Yeltsin of anti-constitutional actions and calling them a coup d'état. Prokhanov himself openly declares that he supports the RF Armed Forces. It is not surprising that soon after the tank shooting of the parliament, the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation banned the publication of the newspaper Den. Moreover, the riot police smashed the editorial office of the newspaper, beat all the employees who were at their workplaces, and destroyed all the property and archives belonging to it. Two more issues of the newspaper, already banned at that time, were still clandestinely published, however, in Minsk and under the guise of special issues of the communist newspaper “We and Time”. Prokhanov did not lament for a long time about the editorial office, which had been smashed to smithereens, and already in September 1993, readers saw the release of his new newspaper Zavtra, in which he is also the owner and editor-in-chief.

During the presidential elections in 1996, Alexander Prokhanov does not hide his preference - he strongly supports the candidacy of Gennady Zyuganov, a representative of the Communist Party. Subsequently, he was attacked several times, but the identity of the attackers was never established, as well as the reason for the attacks themselves. When residential buildings in Russia explode in 1999, Prokhanov describes his version of what happened in an artistic style, openly blaming the Russian special services for what happened. His considerations are presented in the form of a literary work in the novel "Mr. Hexogen", for which Prokhanov received the National Bestseller award in 2002.

Alexander Prokhanov is married and has two sons and a daughter. In addition to multifaceted literary activities, he is fond of drawing, creating works in the style of primitivism. He is a passionate collector of butterflies, today his collection contains more than three thousand specimens of these insects. His literary style - original, colorful, emphatically individual - ensures the continued success of all published literary works.

From the cycle: conversations with famous people.

Soviet and Russian writer, screenwriter, publicist, public figure.

Member of the secretariat of the Writers' Union of Russia. Chief editor of the newspaper "Tomorrow". Winner of the Lenin Komsomol Prize (1982). Cavalier of the Orders of the Red Banner, the Red Banner of Labor (1984), the Badge of Honor and the Red Star.

Born on February 26, 1938, in Tbilisi. Ancestors, Molokans, who came from the Tambov region to Transcaucasia.

His grandfather was the brother of Ivan Stepanovich Prokhanov, the leader of the Russian Baptist movement, the founder and head of the All-Russian Union of Evangelical Christians (1908-1928) and vice-president of the World Baptist Alliance (1911), who emigrated from Russia in 1928.

His son, Yaroslav Ivanovich, a well-known botanist, was arrested in 1938 under articles 58-10 and 58-11 (counter-revolutionary activities), but managed to negotiate the transfer of a very large inheritance that Ivan Stepanovich, who died in 1935, left him abroad.

* And then it was possible to agree. What is there. It would be for what.

And thus, in 1939, he was released, all charges were dropped from him, although the persecution continued in the future due to the fact that he, being a student of N. I. Vavilov, continued to promote classical genetics.

Alexander Andreevich graduated from the Moscow Aviation Institute in 1960, but already in the last year of the institute he began to write poetry and prose. After working as an engineer at a scientific research institute for two years after graduation, he became a forest ranger in Karelia, took tourists to the Khibiny, and participated in a geological expedition in Tuva.

*So to speak, I was gaining worldly and writing experience. Everywhere a little.

In 1968, he began working at Literaturnaya Gazeta and was the first to describe in his report the events on Damansky Island during the Soviet-Chinese conflict in 1969. Since 1970, he has been broadcasting reports, being a correspondent in Afghanistan, Nicaragua, Cambodia, Angola. In 1972 he became a member of the USSR Writers' Union (he was 34 years old) and continued to publish in the Literaturnaya Gazeta, in the magazines Young Guard and Our Contemporary. In addition, for two years he worked as the editor-in-chief of the journal "Soviet Literature" (1989-1991).

He did not join the CPSU.

In December 1990, he created his own newspaper, The Day, where he became editor-in-chief. On July 15, 1991, the newspaper published an "anti-perestroika" appeal, "Word to the People." The newspaper became one of the most radical opposition publications in Russia in the early 1990s and was published regularly until the October events of 1993, after which it was closed by the authorities.

In 1991, during the presidential elections in the RSFSR, Prokhanov was a confidant of candidate General Albert Makashov. During the August putsch, Prokhanov supported the State Emergency Committee.

In September 1993, he spoke in his newspaper against Yeltsin's anti-constitutional actions, calling them a coup d'état, and supported the RF Armed Forces. After the tank shooting of the Parliament, the newspaper Den was banned by the Ministry of Justice. The editorial office of the newspaper was destroyed by riot police, its employees were beaten, property and archives were destroyed. Two issues of the newspaper, already banned by that time, were clandestinely printed in Minsk as special editions of the communist newspaper We and Time.

*As you can see, Prokhanov's experience of political struggle was already great.

On November 5, 1993, the son-in-law of the writer A. A. Khudorozhkov established and registered the newspaper Zavtra, of which Prokhanov became the editor-in-chief. A number of organizations accuse the newspaper of publishing anti-Semitic materials.

In the 1996 presidential election, Prokhanov supported the candidacy of the Communist Party candidate Gennady Zyuganov. In 1997, he became a co-founder of the Patriotic Information Agency. Twice - in 1997 and 1999 he was attacked by unknown people.

In 2002, Prokhanov's novel "Mr. Hexogen", where he artistically depicted the version of the organization of explosions of residential buildings in Russia in 1999 by the Russian special services, received the National Bestseller award.

He is fond of drawing in the style of primitivism. Collects butterflies (there are more than 3 thousand copies in the collection).

Married, has two sons and a daughter. One of the sons is a publicist Andrey Fefelov.

* So briefly about the biography of A. A. Prokhanov, in which the genes of relatives, the character of the journalist himself and his life are traced in all three periods of time that took place before our eyes.

And now, in fact, the interview itself with Alexander Andreevich. My notes are in italics.

“The USSR was a unique project. The Soviet can be copied, but it is still better to build something of your own.”

A. A. Prokhanov

Reflections of A. Prokhanov on the pages of "AiF" No. 15 2014. Recorded by Vitaly Tseplyaev.

About Russian power.

If Russian statehood continues to grow, then our geopolitical space will expand. And we don't have to include some new lands, like Crimea. The unification of the Russian world can be done without tank columns and without special forces units.

For example, the Union State of Russia and Belarus.

Kudrin (former finance minister) talks about $150-160 billion that could leak out of the country in 2014. This is due to the annexation of the Crimea.

But the price we paid for the presence of "curly" in our politics is estimated in trillions of dollars.

* It will not be possible to create some kind of separate "Slavic world" Alexander Andreevich. If the "Slavic Bazaar" I would agree. And with the title too. Well, look how many nationalities and confessions exist side by side on the territory of the Russian Federation. And how many non-Slavs entering the Russian Federation for a while, for permanent residence, unofficially

For example, Armenians in their state are Christians, but they are 99.9% Armenians. Azerbaijan, having separated and become a Muslim country, seems to be tolerant of the Russian-speaking population. But let an Armenian, at least in the singular, or someone else, of a different nationality and in droves, try to come there to work ...

And now, after the examples, estimate how many subjects of these nations live on the territory of the Russian Federation. Officially, unofficially, temporarily, permanently…

As for types like “curly”, I agree. There were so many of them that one salary that they were given would be worth many millions.

About "Serdyukovism".

"Serdyukovism" has become a household term, like Dostoevsky's "Smerdyakovism".

* Everyone is outraged, everyone understands the destructiveness of the "Serdyukovism" existing in Russia, but they cannot do anything on the basis of the law. This means that there are forces in the state that are above the law. And these are only those who invent them and those who approve them.

About points of development.

“The first thing to do is defense…

The modernization of the defense industry (defence-industrial complex) will entail the modernization of entire spheres of life, the entire environment.

“The second super project is connected with the land. Perhaps now we will stop buying modified Western products, we will plow our Russian arable land and start our own cattle.

And Russia will become a flourishing ultra-modern agrarian power.

* With these two most important directions, I agree entirely. I will only add that all borders: land, sea and air must again be locked up. At least temporarily, but for unwanted individuals and companies, perhaps forever.

Otherwise, our constant laxity, friendliness, laziness and "short memory" inherent in the genes can lead to the constant penetration of alien elements, pests into the country's territory, and not only illegally.

And as for plowing, one should not forget the experience of the virgin lands of the 50s of the last century. In order not to get, after the grandiose successes of the first years of virgin lands, a drop in crops and the restoration of land to an arable state within a decade and a half.

On the symbols of the USSR.

The return of the TRP, SSO, the title of Heroes of Labor, VDNH is cosmetics, copying samples. The Soviet style is unique, it is impossible to reproduce it!

We are going through a period of powerful historical creativity, when the state of Russia is being re-created. Since 1991, it has essentially not been.

“Instead of the state, there was a sticky, vile, disgusting puddle in which a drunken monster sat. In the place of this puddle, nothing should ever have grown.”

And we are growing again!

And each facet of the newly growing crystal must have a new name. History cannot move backward.

*History does not move backwards. She repeats herself. Well, when several generations have passed, or even in the memory of one generation.

About our mission.

Everyone got the golden calf with its hegemony of money, with the primacy of vile banking mathematics. People want to take off, they want a miracle ...

And Russia, albeit sometimes in harsh forms, brings people's hopes closer.

Putin reproached the West that it is becoming more and more like Sodom, trampling on Christian values.

At the same time, despite the fact that in Russia there is a wild stratification, there is a forgiven Serdyukov, there is a robbery of the country by bribe-taking officials, there are so many bitches, the place for which is on bitches, Putin took on the mission of preserving Christian values.

And this huge ideological movement inspires hope that everything will be all right with Russia.

* The revival of values, this is what many Russians, Alexander Andreevich, welcome. Only that's why some Christian. And it would not have happened that under the guise of Christianity would begin to occupy an increasingly important place in the politics of the Russian state. At the same time getting rich, impudent, using their influence on the minds. And this is also dangerous. Not everything is so good with Orthodoxy, as one would like to see those who are more and more inclined towards faith.

And, the last.

“My books are a laboratory where I formed my ideas about Russian history and Russian messianism. All these novels are about the Russian state. I traveled to construction sites and factories, oil fields, wrote about the campaigns of nuclear boats. I was delighted with the victories of my state and felt anguish when it suddenly fell and broke.

But today I see that my state is being revived, and I am writing about it again.

The novel that I am completing describes everything that preceded the Crimean events. Such a "pre-Crimea" ...

*Does it feel like nostalgia? This is not a breakdown, and not a disappointment at the end of the road. This is a truthful presentation of their thoughts without a hint of "PR". Why does he, a well-known writer for a long time, need "PR"?

Afterword.

In addition to the above, I want to show you a little information about how a lawsuit was filed against Prokhanov for the article “Singers and scoundrels” in the Izvestia newspaper dated August 17, 2014 and against the newspaper itself.

MOSCOW, October 28 - RIA Novosti. The leader of the rock group "Time Machine" Andrei Makarevich (b. 1953), if he wins the trial against Izvestia and the writer Alexander Prokhanov, plans to spend the money on charity.

“... Andrey Vadimovich filed a lawsuit for the protection of honor, dignity and business reputation. The defendants are the Izvestia newspaper and the writer Alexander Prokhanov, whose comments were especially outrageous,” said Chernin (Makarevich's secretary). According to him, the lawsuit was preceded by correspondence with the editor-in-chief. “We demanded a retraction, the newspaper refused to publish it, and then we had to file a lawsuit,” the spokesman added.

“The publication claims that Makarevich gave a concert in Slavyansk in the Ukrainian military unit, but in fact he performed in a refugee camp in the city of Svyatogorsk,” Chernin specified.

According to Chernin, if the musician wins the case, he will transfer all the money to refugee children who suffered from military operations in Ukraine.

* By the way, Makarevich demanded money for his honor, dignity and business reputation in the amount of 1,000,000 rubles.

He won back 500,000 rubles in court, but the writer filed an appeal with the Moscow City Court against the decision of the Savelovsky Court of Moscow.

So I have a question for readers who have read this issue of Conversations with Famous People to the end:

Don't you think that such a "bazaar" among the creative intelligentsia absolutely does not lead to the "Slavic World" and the world in general?

But they act negatively on the “brains” of the masses, showing who is who ?!

My conclusions.

I tend to think that genes, a person's knowledge of his relatives from childhood, reflections, eventually give the development of a personality in which there are features of his great-great-grandparents. But here's how the person uses all this in the future, it's up to each individual. For the benefit of others or only for ourselves, what do we, those around us, get from such personalities in the end - is this a question?

In this case, I cannot say that Prokhanov's personality, his biography and work can negatively affect the minds of the environment. And he still occupies a worthy place among part of the creative intelligentsia, whose words can be heeded ...

Or at least take it to mind.

Altaiich

With. Altai