Millions of Serebrennikov or how an LGBT propagandist destroys the Moscow Gogol Theater May 28th, 2017
Original taken from mihooy How an LGBT propagandist is ruining the Gogol Theater in Moscow
The infamous Gogol Center got involved in a story with losses of 80 million rubles, and in connection with this, the theater may close in the near future.
Earlier, the new director of the theater announced the financial difficulties of the Gogol Center Anastasia Golub.
It turned out that under the artistic director of the center - Kirill Serebryannikov - in the theater “There were no deductions to the off-budget fund and taxes on individuals”, and there was also a “lack of planned financial economic activity”.
Golub said that due to the current situation, she was forced to suspend the conclusion of contracts for new performances, however, the performances announced in the repertoire will continue.
“The repertoire created by the artistic director of the theater Kirill Serebrennikov is in demand by the audience - this is the main indicator of the theater. But the absurdity of the situation is that with such high artistic standards, the economic performance is deplorable.”, she noted.
In general, the Gogol Center is a state state-financed organization culture of the city of Moscow.
It used to be called the Moscow Drama Theater named after N.V. Gogol, but after the unexpected appointment of Serebryannikov in 2012, the theater changed its traditional name to a more “modern” one.
The former head of the capital's department of culture became the beneficiary of the appointment of the odious director to the post of director of the state theater Sergey Kapkov, which is also not surprising: Serebryannikov is considered a friend Ksenia Sobchak(and at that time it was Ksyusha who “hung out” with Kapkov).
After that, serious contradictions began within the cultural institution..
The theater troupe rebelled, outraged that a person who did not even have a higher theatrical education came to the theater management (Kirill Serebryannikov himself was a “physicist-mathematician” by education, and came to the theater as an “amateur”).
"The appointment of Serebrennikov as artistic director, who calls for the overthrow of the principles of the Stanislavsky system, who denies the Russian psychological theater, is a powerful impetus to the death of the Russian theater", the actors said in their open letter.
After the demarche of the actors, Serebryannikov simply invited the troupe to "write statements", and he himself moved abroad for the duration of the scandal.
And then it became known about the reformatting of the theater into the Gogol Center with three resident troupes, programs of film screenings, concerts, lectures and open discussions.
In general, in this whole dark story, there may be several “skeletons in the closet” hiding at once..
Kirill Serebryannikov himself is a very freedom-loving figure with very non-standard views on Russian reality.
He repeatedly became the object of sharp criticism from the cultural and political community, for example, for the use of homosexual images and, in general, excessive enthusiasm for "stage debauchery."
Serebryannikov shares "creative" views Marat Gelman and other popular "gallery owners".
It is not surprising that various rumors circulate around his person, including private accusations of non-traditional sexual orientation. Yes, and he himself is much more likely to add fuel to the fire: for example, in February 2013, answering a question from the magazine The New times, Serebryannikov openly supported homosexual teenagers.
And it is not surprising that films about history have already been presented at the Gogol Center Pussy Riot or, for example, the scandalous film about LGBT children “The Life of Adele”, or staged performances with “propaganda of homosexuality and pedophilia,” as Yevgeny Fedorov, a deputy and a tireless fighter against Orangeism, declared about the production of “Thugs”.
Another scandal erupted in 2013, when it became known about Serebrennikov's intention to make the film "Tchaikovsky" according to his own script, where, as you probably already guess, the great the composer should have been presented precisely from the position of his non-standard sexual orientation.
Serebryannikov even "punched" funding for Tchaikovsky: the Ministry of Culture allocated 30 million rubles out of the required 240 million to support this project, but because of the scandal that erupted, the Cinema Fund refused to further finance the filming of the picture.
Now Serebrennikov is talking about his intentions to seek funds for the project abroad. And I won't be surprised if he finds support there - so, as you know, there is a special attitude to the PR of famous homosexuals. Moreover, if along the way you can kill two birds with one stone - and humiliate the image of the great Russian composer, and once again promote gay propaganda among Russian viewers.
It is possible, by the way, that Kapkov's high-profile resignation was partly due, among other things, to the personnel policy that he pursued as an official responsible for the capital's culture.
As for Serebrennikov, as practice has shown, his “conceptualism” and passion for LGBT promotion only led the Gogol Center to an economic default.
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In Stuttgart, all tickets for the fairy-tale opera "Hans and Gretel" by Kirill Serebrennikov have been sold. But it seems that after the accusations against the famous director of embezzlement of 68 million rubles, they are waiting for him in other places. For example, in the Basmanny Court of the capital, where on August 23 a preventive measure will be determined for him.
Judging by recent events, there is no much smoke without fire. The case of the "Seventh Studio" has been heard for several months and for a reason. Kirill Serebrennikov was detained in St. Petersburg, where he worked on the film "Summer", dedicated to Viktor Tsoi. The director was taken to Moscow under escort and, of course, not as a witness.
According to a release on the website of the Investigative Committee, the arrest was made "on suspicion of organizing the theft of at least 68 million rubles allocated in 2011-2014 for the implementation of the Platforma project. In the near future, they intend to charge him and choose a measure of restraint.
Scandalous news about the high-profile case of embezzlement of budgetary funds in the Seventh Studio founded by Serebrennikov began to arrive in May of this year. First, searches were carried out in the Gogol Center and in the director's apartment. Serebrennikov acted solely as a witness. According to law enforcement agencies, from 2011 to 2014, the leadership of the non-profit organization "Seventh Studio" used the funds received for other purposes. But everything that happened was a mystery to the public with seven seals. There were only exclamations of indignation about the martyrdom of the talented director. The wave of discontent over the arrest of those involved in the activity was gaining strength.
During the investigation, Serebrennikov was found to have an apartment in Germany worth 300,000 euros. The property was purchased on May 9, 2012, during the fertile period of financing the "Seventh Studio" by the Ministry of Culture. Schemes for the withdrawal of budgetary funds under fictitious contracts have been established. Alcohol, paper, gift sets were purchased in abundance under leftist contracts. In fact, no services were received. 160 shell companies were involved in laundering public money. The name of Kirill Serebrennikov in this performance sounded more often and louder than the others. However, in the shadow of the director's fame, several other names faded.
Yuri Itin, a graduate of the theater department of GITIS, former deputy rector for economic affairs, former director of the Seventh Studio, director of the Volkov theater in Yaroslavl. He was detained as a suspect as part of a criminal investigation. He is under house arrest. He refuses to testify, referring to Article 51 of the Constitution.
Former accountant of the "Seventh Studio" Nina Maslyaeva. At the time of her arrest, she worked as the chief accountant of the studio theater at the Nikitsky Gate. She testified in which she stated that Serebrennikov, the former general producer of the Seventh Studio, Alexei Malobrodsky, and Itin, with her help, "cashed Money allocated for theatrical performances. The total damage amounted to 68 million rubles.
Moreover, according to Spark, a database of legal entities and their founders, over the past five years in the theater under the direction of Kirill Serebrennikov, a number of tenders worth about 5 million rubles have been won by legal entities whose founder is Kirill Serebrennikov. Being in the budgetary service, the director was engaged in commercial activities, including winning tenders from his own theater through IP Serebrennikov.
The moral of this fable is this: art is art, but you need to know the measure.
On August 22, 2017, Russian director Kirill Serebrennikov was detained on suspicion of fraud.
As reported in Investigative Committee, the department has not yet applied to the court with a motion for arrest. He should be charged soon. According to investigators, in 2011-2014 the director organized the theft of "at least 68 million rubles" allocated for his theatrical project "Platform".
At the same time, it is already known that the case against Serebrennikov was initiated under part 4 of article 159 (fraud on an especially large scale), which involves up to ten years in prison. According to press sources, Serebrennikov may be placed in a pre-trial detention center or placed under house arrest.
Today, the Russian press, citing sources in the UK, writes that “in the case, there are, among other things, testimonies not only from Maslyaeva, but also from other persons. The investigation has collected enough grounds for his [Serebrennikov's] status to change from a witness to a suspect.”
Testimony in a criminal case against director Kirill Serebrennikov was given by several employees of the accounting department of his theater company Seventh Studio. This was reported by Interfax with reference to an unnamed source.
The interlocutor of the agency said that not only the arrested former chief accountant of the company Nina Maslyayeva gave testimony, but also an employee of the accounting department Tatyana Zhirikova and "other persons"
Before that, the director gave the law enforcement officers a passport. Recently Serebrennikov's house and the Gogol Center were searched. Serebrennikov then took part in the case as a witness, the investigators released him after interrogation.
Recall that on May 24, Putin clearly said that the searches at Serebrennikov's were carried out by "fools." Later, on June 15, on the Direct Line, Putin once again stated that it was “absurd” to conduct searches with force support in the theater.
Recall that in early August, the former accountant of the Seventh Studio, Nina Maslyaeva, who was detained earlier, said that Serebrennikov, together with Alexei Malobrodsky and Yuri Itin, created this theater company to “implement criminal intent” to embezzle allocated budget funds.
As a result of this investigation, the prosecution against the defendants in the criminal case, according to a new assessment, the damage amounted to 68 million rubles. Earlier it was about the amount of 3.5 million rubles. One of them concerned the fact that the Seventh Studio allegedly received money for the performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream, but did not stage it. At the same time, the production was on the "Platform" and in the "Gogol Center" headed by Serebrennikov.
The investigation intends to charge Kirill Serebrennikov with committing the specified crime, as well as to resolve the issue of choosing a measure of restraint.
In addition, the media said that the companies of the infamous artistic director received state contracts in his own theater for 4.8 million rubles.
"The investigation found an apartment in Germany with Kirill Serebrennikov. According to the telegram channel Mash, the real estate in Berlin cost the Russian director 300 thousand euros. The apartment was bought on May 9, 2012, when the Ministry of Culture was financing the Seventh Studio," the journalists said.
“We also managed to establish schemes for withdrawing budget money under fictitious contracts for the provision of services. Judging by the documents, Seventh Studio purchased paper, gift sets, alcohol, but the contracts turned out to be leftist, no services were received. "garbage heaps". Now the investigation finds out what exactly the withdrawn money went for, "they added.
As Nina Maslyaeva, an accountant at the Gogol Center, who is suspected of fraud, explained that she, on the orders of Itin, Serebrennikov and Malobrodsky, “entered false data into the financial statements.”
Recall that the case itself regarding the embezzlement of public funds in the Gogol Center started in May 2017. The searches in the theater attracted the attention of the public and the media, and for the liberal cultural intelligentsia was truly a shock, followed by loud protests and accusations of harassment.
In fact, there is a qualitative new scheme. It is necessary to create some kind of organization that nominally should be engaged in cultural education and for this business to draw funds from the state. But adjust the corresponding reporting for this.
Serebrennikov and company did not. It is worth recalling that claims against him arose before 2014. The police came to him about the play "Thugs" and the compliance of this performance with the legislation of the Russian Federation in terms of public morality and morality in 2013.
Later, the director was indignant about the "censorship", the fact that "there is not enough air" and agitated everyone to leave the implacable opposition. Now they write in the telegram that "we expect a new wave, even a tsunami of excuses, explanations, hand-wringing, open letters, “to overthrow”, as well as the giggles of propaganda “this one cuts his wife, that one squeezes the phones, the third one takes off his daughter naked, and these steal.” However, we have already seen all this from Belykh. But he is sitting, a tramp.
The authors of the Mash channel write that “Kirill Serebrennikov is not doing well. In 2014, our artistic director with his ANO Seventh Studio signed an agreement with the Ministry of Culture and received subsidies from them for 66 and a half million rubles. With this money, it was only necessary to promote culture to the masses, namely to the regions of Russia.Seventh Studio in the same year signed several contracts for almost 2 million.
Guess the culture was eventually promoted to the masses? We can give you a hint: we still eat pancakes from a shovel, and Serebrennikov is threatened with a written undertaking not to leave the country or even worse.
According to the channel, "the firm of ANO Seventh Studio, whose leadership is suspected of embezzling money from the Ministry of Culture, is registered in the apartment of Kirill Serebrennikov himself."
Of course, not without reason. There have already been facts that tenders at the Serebrennikov cinema were won by ... companies whose founder was Serebrennikov. Such data can be obtained from the Spark-Interfax database. The same ANO "Seventh Studio" and the fund "Territory", the founder of which is Kirill Semenovich, as well as IP Serebrennikov K.S. (OGRNIP 307770000588280), created by the full namesake of our hero over the past five years, won tenders worth almost five million rubles from the theater, which he himself manages.
And then to say, little things. Thus, in the theater under the direction of Kirill Serebrennikov, a number of tenders in the amount of 4.8 million rubles. won by legal entities (including IP Serebrennikov K.S.), whose founder is Kirill Serebrennikov.
Being in the public service, Kirill Serebrennikov continued to engage in commercial activities (including winning tenders from his own theater through the IP Serebrennikov K.S.).
At the same time, a lot of good and right things are happening in the Gogol Center, for example, a toothbrush is bought for 1399 rubles for the play "Martyr". Comments, as they say, are superfluous.
The artistic director and director of the Gogol Center, Kirill Serebrennikov, spoke about the recent events that caused a stormy public outcry. This week, searches were carried out in the capital's theater, as well as at the home of an artist. In addition, information appeared in the media about a criminal case initiated in connection with the theft of 200 million rubles from the state budget. Serebrennikov himself, as it turned out later, is a witness in the embezzlement case.
In his address to the public, the director noted that for the first time he managed to get in touch with friends. According to Serebrennikov, all means of communication, including a computer, were taken away from him. The man is genuinely touched by the warm comments in in social networks left behind by his family and friends.
According to Serebrennikov, sometimes events occur in a person's life for which he is not ready. “This is exactly what happened to me and my friends, colleagues in the Platform project… Now we will prove that the project was, that it took place. We will prove it. It's easy to tell the truth," the man added.
The director emphasized that he and his colleagues are calm, and also "ready for any questions." In addition, Serebrennikov thanked everyone who spoke out in his defense.
“My favorite theatre, the whole team, all the actors, all the spectators who filled us with flowers these days, thank you very much for your support! And I am very sorry that this whole situation indirectly touched you. My dear and beloved Zhenya Mironov, Chulpan, Fedor Sergeevich, all my colleagues - Russian and foreign, everyone who signed the letter in our defense, who spoke at the rally, in our and the world press (the list is huge, I will call and write to everyone personally! ) – thanks for the honesty, for the brotherhood, for the great help and support!” – shared the man.
The artist did not hide that he was going through a difficult life period. “These difficult days can undermine faith in people, in justice, in common sense, but with us it’s the other way around! - so much love, so much faith, so much support that it is impossible to forget and even impossible to fit into one human heart ... I love you all very much, ”concluded the director.
Previously, the artist was supported a large number of celebrities, including Chulpan Khamatova, Fedor Bondarchuk, Elizaveta Boyarskaya, Victoria Isakova, Yulia Peresild, Oleg Tabakov, Mark Zakharov, Konstantin Raikin, Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Victoria Tolstoganova and many others.
On behalf of everyone who cares about the fate of Kirill Serebrennikov, actor Yevgeny Mironov turned to Vladimir Putin. The artist handed over to the President of the Russian Federation a letter from artists and cultural figures, and also asked that the investigation of his colleague's case be carried out "fairly and without extraordinary measures."
Scandal at the Bolshoi Theater: the world premiere of the ballet Nureyev has been cancelled. On July 11, the main theater of the country was supposed to show the ballet in a production for the first time and - now these days the old Don Quixote is on the poster. Nureyev ticket holders can watch Sancho Panza fly on a trampoline or simply get their money back. The theatre's administration, the actors and the people around the theatre, assess what is happening in different ways.
What does it look like from the outside
From the beginning of the rehearsals of Nureyev, exciting rumors were heard from the Bolshoi: oh, there will be naked guys on stage. Oooh, the dancers will dance in skirts and heels. Ballet dancers nervously expected intervention and a direct ban on "gay propaganda" - and when the Nureyev poster suddenly disappeared on the theater's website and the well-intentioned Don Quixote appeared, conclusions were drawn immediately. It doesn't matter that "naked guys" were not supposed to be in the performance (corporal leotards are our everything) and that the choreographer of the performance is actually Yuri Posokhov - one of the strictest classics on the planet. Those who saw his chaste "Cinderella" at the Bolshoi, even earlier - the surrealistic "Magrittomania" and, more recently, the "Hero of Our Time", made together with Serebrennikov, will understand: no matter what topic Possokhov takes on, the performance will "talk" in high classical language and not in cabaret language. Guys in skirts? Okay, guys in skirts met in real life (his role was to be played by the premiere of the Bolshoi), and they appeared in a ballet about him - but in one of the ballet scenes, and not in some kind of "blue raspberry".
It is clear that another explanation is heard in conversations - not only the “gay theme”, but the figure of the director: Kirill Serebrennikov, as you know, was searched, the former director of his Seventh Studio was arrested (the investigation claims that the play “Dream on a summer night”, which has already been watched by thousands of Muscovites, in reality was not released, and the money was wasted). Like, this is an attack directly on Serebrennikov, who managed to quarrel with someone very powerful. The performance disappeared from the poster on July 8, the theater administration promised to give explanations only at a briefing on July 10, and for two days the people discussed all this, bubbling, indignant and worried. In social networks, fragments of videos from rehearsals, filmed by artists, were published, and from them one could say that the performance was very interesting; nearby, the artists were sobbing goodbye to the unreleased performance. Veterans recalled previous cancellations of ballets - there were few of them, and all of them went down in history: in 1931 - "Bolt" in Leningrad, where the factory workers invited to the dress rehearsal did not approve of the choreography (then the premiere performances were also replaced by "Don Quixote"), in 1969 - the first version of "Swan Lake" by Yuri Grigorovich (exactly from that moment, it is generally accepted that Grigorovich "broke", and his talent began to decline). On the morning of July 10 CEO theater gave an official explanation.
CEO version
The premiere has not been canceled - it has been postponed to the next season. Reason: the troupe did not have time to learn the text qualitatively. The season was full of tours and anniversaries, time for rehearsals of a new performance was carved out, and this was not enough. The director looked, decided that the performance was catastrophically unfinished and, according to him, asked the choreographer Yuri Posokhov how long it would take to put everything in order. Possokhov seemed to answer: "A month." (It seems to be because there was neither a choreographer nor a director at the press conference: only the general director talked to the journalists, the head of the ballet troupe stood silently nearby). The Bolshoi did not have a month: after the release of the premiere, the theater must fly on tour to America, this premiere cannot be pushed back. There is nowhere to attach it at the beginning of the next season: there is again a tour, the release of other planned performances, then during the period when there is more or less time for rehearsals at the Bolshoi, Possokhov is busy (he has actually been living and working in San Francisco for a long time) . In general, in reality, the theater can now release a performance only on May 4 (having taken April with rehearsals). This is what Vladimir Urin promised: the performance will come out without changes in scenography, everything has already been done in directing, therefore, although Kirill Serebrennikov will be busy in Europe at that time, he will send his assistant, and that will be enough. Only the choreography needs to be improved, and the troupe just needs to finish learning the text and perform it with high quality. No, there were no instructions from the Minister of Culture. called only when the theater had already removed Nureyev from the poster, and asked what was the matter. Yes, the theater suffers reputational losses, but no financial losses - the performance has not been canceled, it has simply been rescheduled.
Believe - don't believe
For believing the words of the director - his former reputation: Vladimir Urin, before becoming the head of the Bolshoi, for many years headed the Moscow Musical Theater named after Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko, and he always supported "his" creators (even when they were completely exhausted as a choreographer). And when a search broke out recently at Serebrennikov's, Urin defended the director. The ballet of the Hamburg genius The Little Mermaid was released at the Musical Theater, where the storyteller Andersen suffered for the handsome prince and composed a well-known fairy tale precisely because of unrequited love, the corresponding theme sounded in the staged opera A Midsummer Night's Dream. That is, the virtuous husband and father Vladimir Urin did not at all believe that gay stories had no place on the stage of the theater, arguing sensibly that it was a matter of talent, and not of orientation. But all the same, serving in a municipal theater is one thing, and another in the Bolshoi, on which thunder and lightning fall from the most powerful peaks. Here he said that, according to his information, Medinsky's angry call with a demand to close the performance "with propaganda" still took place; then the agency removed this news from the tape, the Ministry of Culture informed that it was not engaged in censorship, but everyone immediately remembered the story of the Novosibirsk "Tannhäuser", when the director, who did not obey the Ministry of Culture's request, was immediately removed from his post. So we can assume that the point is not the “unpreparedness” of the ballet dancers (who in their “VKontakte”, “Facebooks” and “Instagrams” claim that they were quite ready, and the director himself admitted at a press conference that the last the run-through, made after the announcement of the cancellation of the performance, the troupe "offended" went well), and that next year they will try to correct the performance.
For example, in the part where main character ballet poses for a photographer - and in the form of a projection they show pictures of the famous American photographer. Among them is a frontal photo of a completely naked Nureyev. Avedon is the god of photography, Nureyev had everything in order with his body, and photography is associated with pictures of Greek sculptures, and not with some kind of porn. The performance was originally labeled "18+", so no child would see anything shocking. (Adults would note that the dancer was generously gifted by nature). But, apparently, it is this photo that will be “cut” - if you believe not the words of the director, but his sign language: at the moment when he answered the question whether the photos would remain in the performance, Urin said “yes” - and outlined the portrait frame with his hand at waist level. Well, if censorship is limited only to this and the public does not see a picture of Nureyev without pants, there will be no big tragedy.
But the appetite comes with eating - and those who put pressure on the director (if there were any, of course) may not be satisfied with the disappearance of only this picture. Because the story of the famous fugitive is told in a ballet without cuts. Nureyev fled in search of freedom - both creative (even the Kirov Theater's repertoire was narrow for him, in exile he eagerly tried a variety of choreography that was inaccessible in the USSR) and sexual. Kirill Serebrennikov and Yuri Possokhov did not even think of turning the story of Nureyev into a story about only creative throwing and victories - in the life of a fugitive, sex and ballet were inextricably linked. An affair with a Danish dancer brought Nureyev (ardent, volatile, but who had often neglected the purity of dance before) a passion for the Danish school, which is fixated precisely on the impeccable purity of movements. Of course, there is Eric Brun in the ballet (as well as the English prima, the only woman whom Nureyev, by his own admission, could marry, and the ballerina who did a lot to ensure that Nureyev was accepted in Europe). On the whole, the life of a great artist, in which the hard labor of daily labor and the fireworks of nightly entertainment were combined, the directors turned into a performance that is also capable of shocking and delighting. If in the next season the theater tries to reduce-change the part connected with Nureyev’s turbulent personal life (by persuading Possokhov, who is a very gentle person by nature, or somehow putting pressure on Serebrennikov), this will be the same pitiful gesture as cutting out sex scenes from films ( what was practiced in the Soviet Union).
In general, nine months remain until the question is clarified whether the general director of the Bolshoi always tells the truth and whether Nureyev will be shown at the Bolshoi Theater in general and in an uncensored form. In the meantime, the saddest result of the scandal is that the artists who do not at all coincide with the hero of the performance in personal preferences, who do not trust the explanations, write in social networks: “We understand why Nureyev left.” From understanding to decision to repeat the route is too close. The Bolshoi would not be left without its best artists - after all, it is the best that is the easiest to find work in Europe.
