Dialogues about Music

This book includes records of meetings between Alexander Sokurov and listeners, as well as his conversations within the framework of the "Open Library" project with Archpriest Alexey Uminsky; writers Lyudmila Ulitskaya and Svetlana Alexievich; director Kirill Serebrennikov; journalist, general director... of the news project "Meduza" Galina Timchenko; president of the charitable foundation for hospice assistance "Faith" Nuyta Federmesser. The "Open Library" with Alexander Sokurov became a platform for an important conversation about Russian history, about the state and culture, about the past and future of our country, about the necessity of hearing and understanding each other. The book opens with a preface by cultural historian Alexander Etkind.