The author of the legendary program “Rock-Crops”, radio host Seva Novgorodtsev, in his autobiographical book, writes not about the years of work in the Russian service of the BBC that made him famous, but about the part of his life that preceded them, which took place in the Soviet Union, and, as it turns out, no less exciting.
The author of the legendary program “Rock-Crops”, radio host Seva Novgorodtsev, in his autobiographical book, writes not about the years of work in the Russian service of the BBC that made him famous, but about the part of his life that preceded them, which took place in the Soviet Union, and, as it turns out, no less exciting. Childhood in Leningrad, studies in a sailor, a brass band at a school, long-distance voyages, farts, Tallinn, Riga, Moscow, Weinstein’s jazz orchestra and, of course, music and musicians. Novgorodtsev expounds a kind of encyclopedia of Soviet life in the 60s and 70s, including its unattractive sides, so witty and lively that the last phrase of the book, when its hero, leaving for emigration, says goodbye to his homeland at the airport, sounds unexpected: “ With every minute it became easier to breathe. A particularly valuable skill is to easily and cheerfully talk about things that can terrify someone, and discourage someone.
AMPHORA, 376 p.