pogoreltsy try to survive.
pogoreltsy try to survive.
Though they remained with a trouble in private.
In VILLAGE Arkhangelsk of Chernsky area of the Tula area month
Back there was a strong fire. Huge, you see, term, that
To help the people who have appeared in a trouble. But today already absolutely it is clear:
22 persons who have remained without a roof over the head are necessary to nobody. Only snow
Has covered terrible black skeletons. All the rest - without changes.
Village.
GRANDMOTHER Marja Vasilevna Belousova, the recognised keeper
duhoborcheskih church chanting and traditions, devout truzhenitsa and excellent
pljasunja, the laugher and the ringleader of all holidays, for days on end
Mournfully sits on self-made lame topchanchike, expecting, when
Somebody will feed her with something hot. She in panic is afraid
To make independently though one superfluous movement: and suddenly will tumble down
This damned "goat", the fire, and then to it again will begin
Precisely nobody will help.
"Goat" - unique for the grandmother a source of heat,
Represents something absolutely impossible from the point of view
Safety: the iron pipe which has been set up on thin, and too
Iron, stilts-rods - and around, nazhivuju, the spiral is reeled up under
Current. All together - the oven is called. Supplement a landscape the bared
The electric wires which are hanging down from a ceiling and walls. It is possible for itself
To imagine, how by all this economy from time to time
The seeing old woman moves nothing - grandmother Marja has gone blind
Right after a fire. Speaks - with experiences. On her eyes
Has burnt down absolutely everything, than she was proud both a vein. And things, and two it
The sewing machines well-known among neighbours - and one most
Correct, still pre-revolutionary, - and mixed fodder for pigs, and all
Winter stock of a flour, potato, honey and butter...
Marja Vasilevna - a member of collective farm-community of a name of Lev Tolstoi.
All 12 families-pogoreltsev - duhoborcheskie, it are immigrants from
Georgia on the historical native land seeming from apart before
Liked and desired, that people from familiar spots the whole acted in film
Families, clans, with apiaries, herds, the belongings acquired
Three-four generations. Also went to Russia...
Henceforth and Mare Vasilevne, and as all the rest have suggested to consider
Houses iron boxes with "goats" - without water, the water drain, gas.
Before all is poor, as barracks to name language will not turn!
There are fears, that on it "the care of the Native land" and will come to the end.
Call any of the local heads on a choice - though to the head
Chernsky regional administration to Alexander Stepanovu, though
To the chief of regional service CHS Sergey Gusarovu, though to the head
The Tula regional migratory service to Vladimir Zhevnovu, though
To the assistant to the governor on social questions to Nikolay Kalininu -
Everywhere will vigorously respond: "At all of us it is excellent - victims are settled
In the arranged well carriages! Moreover, companions on belief from
Other areas already carry it sruby ".
That represent "the arranged well carriages", we already
We know. And expected sound sruby is a frank lie.
I ask grandmother Belousovu: "Who from the heads here to you in
"Box" after a fire came? "At first she at all does not understand
Question: "In what it is sense, the child?" I specify: "In the direct. From
Tula, from Common people came to look, how you were arranged? "Marja
Vasilevna hangs a head: "Anybody. I sit here and I sit".
And further the blind old woman, crying, asks: "Please, call
From Moscow to the doctor to Tula - can, it takes me on operation
Now, out of turn... I otherwise will burn down here. And neighbours behind itself
I will drag off ". At Mari Vasilevny - as, however, and at the others, -
All documents have disappeared on fire. And now, without the passport, the grandmother
Have refused flatly to operate eyes in the regional
The diagnostic centre. Well and to wait, when in militia will restore
Red book, it is necessary long - it is necessary to send inquiry at first
In Georgia, on a former residence, whether samozvanka this
Belousova, the native has sat down Gorelovka (here a twist of fate!)
Ninotsmindsky area of Georgia.
Really and for this purpose it is necessary to call Moscow in the help - to arrange
On treatment to Tula the one and only sick pensioner? Yes
It was simple not before to officials in rozhdestvensko-New Year's charcoal fumes
Infinite train of holidays!
But how a community? Why have not extended pogoreltsev, having spat
On the state system which has given full failure of the help and protection? Where that
"tolstovstvo", whose name here plough the earth? Really it was impossible
Well at least hot a food to adjust in a collective-farm dining room? Questions
These for certain already spin at many in language. But do not hurry
To imagine idyll. In duhoborcheskoj to a community - all for a long time not so,
As was once.
While we "stayed" at Mari Vasilevny, backwards-forward by it
"Box" on rural street would wander like quite
Economic muzhichki, with hands and feet - both to repair, and to beat,
And to construct... But whether here with hearts? And whether good luck in a shower?
One is precisely known - with a potato stock in podpole. With dojnoj
Cow in a stall. With a strong roof over a head. From the warm
Bed. But any business by it to pogoreltsev... Any not
Will turn to the grandmother, does not undertake electroconducting, will not lead to
To itself for a dinner, will not lodge in the house. Yes, similar, and not
poperhnetsja, sowing posumernichat.
- To anybody to what now there are no affairs, - mournfully nod
Going to at Mari Vasilevny women, too from pogoreltsev. Persons
At all especial, deep and considerable, as if from the internal
Secret - age-old, as from pre-revolutionary photos,
"Breed". Having noticed as I admire their strange lines, there and then
Parry: "Only also remains from us that persons. Customs duhoborcheskie
Have left. And the fire only has confirmed it. Old men will die - we absolutely
We will be dissolved among you. The debauchery one is around created, lie... ".
City.
AS In WATER looked... Were not in time from Arkhangelsk to Moscow
To reach - and here the invitation from the Duma. It appears, for January, 18th
Parliamentary hearings on most that are appointed on is rage
Day: "About the state support of communal arrangement of refugees
And immigrants ".
What only freakish speeches in support "the traditional
Communal zhizneustrojstva Russian people "it was not necessary to hear in
Ohotnom to a number. It was found out, that with communities at all of us in the full
Order, that the life there goes present, beautiful and spiritual - and
If there are lacks, of course, only "separate". To optimism
Valentina Zorkaltseva, the chairman of the Duma committee on affairs
Public associations and the religious organisations, the initiator
Hearings and the holder of the basic report, was not limits.
It has appeared, already and the bill is ready - "about support obshchinnosti"
("For a long time immigrants waited for such complex approach to the
To problems! "- deputy Vladimir Nikitin has commented,
The author of the document). And the deputy minister on affairs
Nationalities Vladislav Tumanov has reported on creation
spetsdepartamenta on lifting of communal spirit of Russian people!
naumiljavshis in plenty, public began to disperse. And anybody,
Even under a curtain, has not recollected about pogoreltsah - "tolstovtsah", not
Has addressed to present assistants to federal departments
(Ministry of Health, Gosstroy), has not sounded words about money on
Arrangement of victims.
... Night went down. I understood, that now Marja Vasilevna
naoshchup breaks a loaf, and it weigh its supper. On bread to put
It absolutely nothing it. The Tula area.
ANNA POLYTKOVSKY.
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//* an information Source: the General newspaper, 21.01.99
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