The chief artist of the St. Petersburg Tovstonogov Theater Eduard Kochergin wrote a sequel to his memoirs «Angel Dolls» (Vita Nova, 2009).
The chief artist of the St. Petersburg Tovstonogov Theater Eduard Kochergin wrote a sequel to his memoirs «Angel Dolls» (Vita Nova, 2009). In the new book, he recalls how, having escaped from the Omsk orphanage for the children of “enemies of the people”, he went to look for his missing mother, the Pole mother Bronya, how he moved in cars and freight cars strictly to the west, closer and closer to his native Leningrad. This road epic is not only about the fate of the future remarkable theater artist, who survived only thanks to the ability to bend the profiles of Stalin and Lenin from wire, but also about post-war crippled Russia, ringing with medals of heroes and disabled stumps returning on their feet, the joy of their wives (they waited !), the cry of the unawaited, the howling of the beggars, the savory jargon of train thieves. The most amazing thing is that this six-year-long story has a happy ending. He nevertheless found her, his uterus, and even the puffing language, forgotten over the years of separation, suddenly understood. When the boy burst into tears in his sleep, Bronya woke him up and said in Polish: “You are one of our kind, a man, you must live.” Fortunately, Kochergin turned out to be an obedient son.
Vita Nova, 272 p.