Golden Sunday

Moskvin is the shortest path from serious to funny, said writer Boris Minaev. This path led Marina Moskvin to the spectacular Golden Sunday — a holiday for those who have already planted trees in the summer cottages of their lives, and not just one. Yuri Nikulin, Slava Polunin, Tonino Guerra, Viktor Chizhikov, Dina Rubina, artists, publishers, musicians, actors, wandering minstrels — they are all the culprits of funny, strange, and sad incidents that the author has collected for many years like jewels. The bluesy drive of this book invites us to value life above all — for there will be no other life better than this one. — And write humorously about everyone, — said artist Leonid Tishkov. — But many are already gone… — Then write humorously about those who, as we think, are here, although they are not, and without humor about those who, as we think, are not here, although they are. At the festival in Nizhny Novgorod, a representative of the organizing committee said to me farewell: — You should come to us more often. I haven’t read anything of yours and don’t know you at all, but many, excuse my wording… order you.