Russian drivers do not stop for anyone. They did for Ryazanov. I will have plenty of opportunities to write more about Eldar Ryazanov. I will seek them out. But today, the day after we laid him to rest, I want to keep it simple. I want to share a few words that others have spoken in his regard. He was that big. His aura was that full and strong. This has nothing to do with his famous love for food. He loved his food and, more importantly, he loved his appetite.
He recognized it as an expression of his prodigious love for life and anything that sustained it. It has everything to do with the magnitude of the phenomenon that was Eldar Ryazanov. He was as simple and as down-to-earth as anyone you can possibly imagine. He was approachable, he was generous and kind. And yet he had a full knowledge of his importance, and of the responsibility he carried as a man in whom an entire nation saw itself reflected.
Ryazanov told the story about how he, a fairly successful documentary filmmaker he made seven documentary films between and , became a maker of feature films. One day in he was called into the office of Ivan Pyryev, a legendary Soviet film director who was appointed the head of Mosfilm Studios in The word had come down from on high: We want a comedy.
But there was no one in the stable of Soviet directors capable of making one. There was, however, this documentary director Ryazanov, whose sense of humor and purpose was already legendary.
Indeed, Carnival Night was a monstrous hit, easily becoming the most popular film of the year. As it tells the story of a New Year celebration with wit, intelligence and affection — as well as with some pointedly barbed political statements — it has continued to be shown with regularity every New Year right down to our own time. Ryazanov now rests about 50 yards away from Khrushchev.
Look at the middle photo in the block above. As the Russians say: May the earth be down to him. You are commenting using your WordPress. You are commenting using your Google account. Occasional burials resumed in , however, starting with Mikhail Kalinin, who had served as head of state. Most interments continued in the wall; occasionally cosmonauts and generals muscled their way into the atheistically sacred ground.
The last such honored burial occurred in , that of Defense Minister Dmitry Ustinov. He demonstrates the fickleness of fame. He was a bureaucrat in a collapsing system whose 15 minutes of fame is long past.
Indeed, there has been some discussion about sending his body back to the now independent country of Georgia, where he was born — and almost half the population expresses its admiration for him — but so far he remains unmoved. The residents of the other 11 individual graves also deserve disinterment. They were discreditable brutes, though some were more monstrous than others. Then came Andrei Zhdanov, chief propagandist who once was viewed as a potential successor to Stalin.
Next came Stalin, followed by Kliment Voroshilov and Semyon Budyonny, both Bolshevik politicians and military commanders. The wall, too, should be cleared.
Doing so should be easy, since removing urns filled with ash is a relatively uncomplicated process. Kirov, the influential party leader of Leningrad, was notable as a friend of Stalin whose assassination, some believe on the orders of a paranoid Stalin, was the excuse for the great purge. Menzhinsky chaired the secret police. Kosygin originally shared leadership with Brezhnev before losing the ensuing power struggle. The U. But few played such a malign role as serving the Soviet Union as it crushed its own people and spread murderous repression abroad.
Of course, the ultimate target should be Lenin. After communism collapsed, there was serious discussion about closing the tomb. Although a majority of the public appears to back holding a funeral for the top Bolshevik, nationalist impulses have blocked the move.
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