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In their best works he leads us into the recesses of the suffering soul
and seeking humility in God."

Alexander Andreevich Arkhangelsky is an outstanding Russian spiritual composer and choral conductor. Although he lived more than 20 years in the 20th century, he still remains a prominent representative St. Petersburg school of composers late XIX V.

Arkhangelsky's works demonstrate knowledge of the possibilities of combining individual voices and choral groups; polyphonic episodes are often encountered. Alexander Andreevich was one of the first Russian composers to interpret the chants of the Liturgy and all-night vigil as a single cycle with harmonic and intonation connections. The melody of his compositions is close to everyday chants and folk song. The transcriptions of ancient chants are made in a strict diatonic style of harmony with limited dissonances.

According to researchers, it will probably never be possible to create a complete “picture” of Alexander Andreevich’s life: unfortunately, part of Arkhangelsky’s archive was lost during the looting of his St. Petersburg apartment in 1924.

“I have rarely met people who embraced life so joyfully until the end of their days. Anyone who, like me, saw the gentle light in the eyes of Alexander Andreevich during a sad time of illness will understand why he never ended a musical thought with a sad verse of a psalm, but always led it to a soothing resolution. Therefore, it does not seem an accident that Alexander Andreevich began many of his works with a simple and touching prayer: “Lord, I have called to You, hear me”” (from the memoirs of contemporaries).

Alexander Andreevich Arkhangelsky born on October 11 (23), 1846 in the village of Staroye Tezikovo, Narovchatsky district, Penza province, in the family of priest Andrei Ivanovich Arkhangelsky. Mother, Elizaveta Fedorovna, organized home concerts at home in moments of rest. Except younger Alexander there were two more children in the family.

Peasant life and the sudden loss of his father early childhood taught the future regent and composer to constant hard work. In childhood, Alexander's main interest began to manifest itself - in music.

At the age of ten, the boy entered the Krasnoslobodsky Theological School. By the end of the first year of study, Bishop Varlaam (Uspensky) of Penza and Saransk arrived at the school. The singing abilities of young Alexander attracted the attention of the Bishop - in the fall of 1859, the talented young man was immediately transferred to the second grade of the Penza provincial school religious school and enrolled him as a singer-soloist in the bishop's choir. And after successfully graduating from school in 1862, Arkhangelsky was transferred to the Penza Theological Seminary.Arkhangelsky quickly acquired the necessary professional skills and already at the age of sixteen successfully replaced the ill regent, but despite this, he acutely felt a lack of knowledge. In order to fill the gaps, he actively educated himself and spent his modest earnings on lessons in music theory, composition and harmony; for seven years he studied violin with an accompanist opera house Rubinovich. At the same time he met the famous Penza musical figure and composer of sacred music Nikolai Mikhailovich Potulov. In the summer of 1870, in the 24th year of his life, the young regent went to St. Petersburg and in the fall of the same year he became a volunteer student in the surgical department of the Military Medical Academy. But he did not forget about music, at the same time accumulating and deepening his musical and professional knowledge. He took private piano lessons and solo singing. Arkhangelsky believed that the regent-conductor should sing professionally himself, know the rules of voice production, so as not to “spoil” the voices of the singers. Without studying even a year at the Medical Academy, Alexander Arkhangelsky transferred to the Institute of Technology. But even then he realized that such a life did not correspond to his spiritual interests and physical abilities. And then the 26-year-old student submitted a petition to the director Singing Chapel Nikolai Ivanovich Bakhmetev about passing the external examination for the title of regent. After receiving an advanced certificate, Arkhangelsky got a job as regent of the Sapper Battalion, then of the Horse Guards Regiment, and finally of the Court Stable Church. Due to difficult material conditions, the regency had to be combined with public service accountant at the Control Chamber of the Ministry of Railways.

Since the mid-1870s. Arkhangelsky thought about organizing his own choir. Thanks to the help of his fellow countryman, Minister of Railways F. Neronov, in 1880 Arkhangelsky created his own choir of 16 people 4, and three years later his first public performance took place, which immediately attracted attention. -mania of the public and musical figures.

In 1885, Alexander Andreevich implemented a long-planned decision - he made changes in the choir, replacing the boys with a female cast, which was an innovation in the practice of performing choral works. This made it possible to have permanent staff choir and reach the heights of performing skills.

With the beginning concert activities The choir is also connected with Arkhangelsky’s successes as a composer. Spiritual works occupied a significant place in his work. Researchers life path note that he, along with such authors as Dmitry Bortnyansky, Alexey Lvov, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, took a “major step forward” towards creating his own original Russian church music. Arkhangelsky's spiritual works (and this is the main thing in his work - about a hundred) were distinguished by a high professional level.

The concert activity of the Arkhangelsky Choir has become a bright page in the history of the world musical art. The best samples hymns of the Orthodox Church were open to the general public. Thanks to his talent and organizational skills, Arkhangelsky led the choir for 43 years - a unique phenomenon in the history of Russian art. Alexander Andreevich paid a lot of attention to the directors of church choirs, helping them expand and enrich their repertoire.

The Arkhangelsky Choir traveled both throughout Russia and abroad, its popularity was extraordinary. Alexander Andreevich was called the best choral conductor peace. From the reviews of that time you can read: “Mr. Arkhangelsky is not only a serious musician, but also a wonderful expert in the field, which he serves with love and rare energy... All of Russia loves to pray to the music of A.A. Arkhangelsky".

Alexander Andreevich accepted the revolutionary events as Orthodox Christian- with humility, sharing the sorrowful lot of his people. In 1918, the composer’s small estate in the Kostroma village of Kalikino was plundered. The “people's” government announced that the musician was deprived of rights to his property. The choir's repertoire was now approved by the People's Commissariat of Education, expelling all Orthodox music, and the choir itself was renamed the State choir group. Despite everything, Arkhangelsky continued to work and in the winter of 1921, during the celebration of the 50th anniversary of Arkhangelsky’s choral activity, he, the first of the choral conductors, was awarded the title of Honored Artist of the Republic.

I can’t say anything special about my life in Petrograd; My choir (in a reduced composition) is functioning, but everything around me is so burdensome... What should I do? The devastation is complete and general...”

In connection with the renaming of the St. Petersburg court singing chapel In the State Academic Chapel, the existence of two state choirs in one city was considered “incompatible”; Arkhangelsky was offered to organize the State Chapel in Moscow. However, Arkhangelsky refused this proposal, citing illness and old age.

In 1923, through Alexander Grechaninov, the composer received an invitation to work in Prague. Together with his wife Pelageya Andreevna, he moved to Czechoslovakia. Here Alexander Andreevich successfully worked with the All-Student Russian Choir7. Rehearsals of the newly created team were interrupted due to the illness of the leader. In the summer of 1924, Arkhangelsky was invited to Italy for treatment. Feeling better, he returned to Prague. At the same time, the consequences of the October revolution in his homeland left a heavy mark on the composer’s soul. On November 16, 1924, he scheduled the next choir rehearsal, but an hour before it began, the great composer’s heart stopped forever...

In October 1925, the ashes of Alexander Andreevich, according to his expressed will, were transported by his wife to Leningrad, and there, after a conciliarly celebrated funeral Liturgy in the Kazan Cathedral, with the singing of the “former” choir of the beloved regent of Russia, he was given burial on Tikhvin cemetery of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra. On the tombstone are inscribed the words: “Inspire, O God, my prayer.”

Natalia Kuzina, director of the Tallinn choir “Rainbow”, described the work of Alexander Andreevich Arkhangelsky in the following words: “ Musical language Arkhangelsky is natural, just as human speech is natural and expressive. His compositions are distinguished by their extraordinary softness, clarity, warmth in music, and prayerfulness.”

According to the observation of one of Alexander Arkhangelsky’s contemporaries, “the person praying is fascinated not only by the beauty of the voice, but, most importantly, under the influence of Arkhangelsky’s music, he lights up with an even stronger religious feeling. The reason for this influence is the deep religious feeling of the author himself...”

What is happening in/in Ukraine is a real civil war. We will never agree on who started it first and who is more to blame. Although I remain my point - we are obliged to maintain rationality, it is our duty to analyze sources, compare pictures, check facts and not fall for propaganda from any side.

But it is quite obvious that whoever started it, and whoever fanned the fire, and whoever provoked the crowd, those who behaved brutally will be guilty both before the human and before God's court. It doesn’t matter under what slogans. Maidan or anti-Maidanov. Pro-Russian or Russophobic. And those who rejoiced at the sight of burning people in Odessa. And those who shot at football fans from behind the protesters. And those who took hostages in Slavyansk.

IN civil war, even if you take someone’s side, you need to remain human to the last. And for me, the heroes of future novels about the Ukrainian tragedy will not be politicians who played on death, not die-hard fighters, not fiery ideologists, accusers, angry empty-headed people, but those who hid and saved their enemies. Who, being on one side of the barricades, pulled out of the fire and from the bullets those who were on the other.

There are times when lack of ideas, aka following the commandment - in defiance of the state, people, commune - becomes the highest idea. The count goes to one person, not to the human masses.

"White Guard", not "Destruction".

In connection with what was happening, it became finally clear that instead of the meaningless subject of life safety, media literacy lessons should be introduced at school. How to distinguish propaganda/counter-propaganda from information, how to compare sources, how to superimpose sincere but emotionally charged versions of events from both sides in order to get a three-dimensional picture, how not to fall for mutual fakes, how not to fall into hysteria and depression.

Actually, this is modern life safety.

She entered the life of our generation in a halo of anecdotes - it couldn’t be any other way in a country devoid of a sense of history and immersed in a sleepy myth; An anecdote is a pathetic echo of mythology, its last outburst, its final outburst. “Dear Margaret Thatcher... Leonid Ilyich, this is Fidel Castro!!!... Yes, but it is written - Thatcher.”

Then it was as if the glass had been wiped, and Margaret Thatcher found herself very close: during the visit of Gorbachev (not yet the Secretary General, still a young secretary for the hopeless agriculture) to Great Britain, it suddenly became clear that they sympathized with him, that there was a glimpse of something human in him that he and Raisa liked outside the USSR, and Thatcher was taking care of the young 55-year-old politician. People later said that she gave him a checkered mohair scarf, everyone’s dream at that time; however, Gorbachev actually did have a scarf, and he wore it proudly.

And after the scarf, Margaret herself appeared - after M.S. was elected general secretary; her interview with Soviet political observers, the first live television interview with a foreign politician of the non-Soviet era, blew up the television audience. What we have long been accustomed to - that the Western leader responds sharply, independently and cheerfully, seemed like something lunar or Martian; she wasn't mad at Silly questions, did not twist her legs, did not give complexes - but respectfully put the propagandists on both shoulder blades. And this meant that information space the real revolution has begun.

The revolution, as expected, has subsided, the tides have changed, two decades have flown by - and now I find myself in London, at a reception with her participation. A small, inflexible old woman walks along the rows and exchanges words with everyone. "What are you doing?" - she asks Volodya Ryzhkov. He triumphantly answers: “I am a politician.” “What else can you do?” - she suddenly asks sarcastically. “And I’m also a history teacher, I can teach at school,” Ryzhkov objects without being confused. “Then hello.”

I didn’t hear that she asked Khodorkovsky, Robert Skidelsky, and what she talked about with Lena Nemirovskaya. But she tricked me wonderfully.

I was the deputy chief of the then Izvestia. "Who are you?" - she asked her signature question. "Editor at a newspaper." “So, do you publish editorial articles?” "It happens." “I was always surprised - nothing happens, and the next morning there is an editorial in every newspaper.”

And now she's gone.

Boris Berezovsky died. Whatever we think about him (and on the day of his death it’s either good or not), he was a key figure of a bygone era. An era of historical, adventurous, bold, vile, large-scale, petty and reckless. They speak irritably about such people during their lifetime, and after death they write books and make films.

Grandiose picaresque novel finished.

To talk about Stalin and objectivity, in particular, to the latest articles and statements of M. Yu. Sokolov, whom I respect. (Precisely “to”, and not “against.”) Is it possible to distinguish in Stalin’s activities actual villainy in terms of intent and execution, half-villainy - only in execution, half-villainy - in the spirit of that strange time, and not villainy at all? Of course you can. We just need to determine in advance why we are doing this. For getting three-dimensional picture era, full historical knowledge? Then yes, definitely. For overall assessment personality and activities of the leader?

If we are talking about academic assessment, we should also agree and even welcome this approach. And if about moral, religious and (at a lower level) political, then the assessment should be summary and final - it is ultimately evil or not evil. Ultimately, it is evil, and quite on a satanic scale. When the Antichrist comes, he will also do a lot of good things, and an honest historical analysis will oblige us to admit this, but the result will be the same - “Children, Antichrist!”

Alexey German Sr. died.

Stubborn, painfully great, not taking into account the rules of the party and the rules of cinematic aesthetics, going ahead, trusting instinct more than intelligence and calculation, creating his own cinema, equally far from Hollywood celluloid and from petty arthouse...

How lucky we were to have him.
May the kingdom of heaven rest with him.

As the magazine reported Domestic notes", Grigory Pomerantz died - how to determine his profession? philosopher? not quite? theologian? Not good? religious writer? and not a writer... a deeply religious reasoner about the meaning of life. He was born in 1918, went through the war, it was there, next to death, that he experienced a meeting with eternity, and he didn’t want to think about anything, talk about anything, write about anything, and couldn’t. Only about the main thing... The Kingdom of Heaven for a person who calmly, quietly and brightly walked the path that he considered the only correct one.
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You already know about this yourself. It is important that this is not just a personal decision of an old and a lot of sick person (I’m leaving because I can’t stay), but a responsible act of a real pontiff (I’m leaving because it will be difficult for the Church to deal with me - the way I become due to physical weakness). But perhaps more importantly, it is an act associated with modern ideas about life, responsibility and will; antiquity did not see spiritual strength in the renunciation of lifelong power. For such an act to become possible, it was necessary to firmly decide for oneself that some of the experience of confused, disorganized, hysterical modernity has passed the test of eternity. And above all, the attitude towards power as a tool that is best transferred before the tool falls out of hand.

Catholics can feel humble pride in such a pope, but we have deep respect.

Ilya Kolmanovsky, an excellent teacher and director of the “Pocket Scientist,” was fired by the school director because Ilya publicly clashed with supporters of the law on homosexuality near the State Duma. The law is completely stupid and harmful - among other things, because sooner or later, because of such laws, the pendulum will go into reverse side; forms of protest against it in the form of same-sex couples kissing are deeply alien to me.

But what happened to Ilya is more important than both the law and the reaction to the law. One of the best teachers in Moscow, he was fired not for what he did at school (he could do nothing but good there), but for what he did outside of school - and without disturbing the order. This is a disastrous precedent; It would be right to immediately fire the director, distraught with fear, for actions incompatible with his profession, and return Ilya with an apology.

Arkhangelsky Alexander Nikolaevich - Russian writer and poet, literary critic, publicist, representative of the modern intelligentsia, candidate philological sciences, famous TV presenter, familiar to viewers from the information and analytical program “Meanwhile,” dedicated to economic and political topics, as well as the main cultural events weeks.

Alexander Arkhangelsky: biography

A native Muscovite was born on April 27, 1962, and grew up in an ordinary family with his mother and great-grandmother. They lived on the outskirts of the capital, not rich; Mom worked as a radio typist. At school I studied brilliantly in all subjects related to literature. I very quickly gave up doing mathematics, not because of lack of ability, but because I did not like to waste time on things that did not arouse interest.

At some point in his life, he was incredibly lucky: the boy went to the Palace of Pioneers to enroll in a drawing club and, by chance, in company with some guys, became a member of a literary club. It was there that the young psychologist and teacher Zinaida Nikolaevna Novlyanskaya had a huge influence on him. For this young woman, who worked for a meager salary, the profession was something more - a calling; she made literary savvy people out of her charges, giving Soviet schoolchildren many bright and good examples. And today Alexander Arkhangelsky communicates closely with the now grown children - participants in the circle back in 1976.

Life goal set

After school, Alexander, who clearly understood what he wanted from life, made up his mind right away and entered the Pedagogical Institute at the Faculty of Russian Language and Literature. His student years coincided with work at the Palace of Pioneers, where Alexander got a job as the head of a literary circle. Because teaching activity did not interest Alexander, and he had absolutely no intention of realizing himself in in this direction, then he falsified a medical report stating that he could not teach due to asthma.

The next step in the fate of the young writer was work on the radio, where his colleagues were women retirement age. Alexander could not tolerate such a neighborhood for a long time: after 9 months he ran away from there. Then he got a job as a senior editor of the magazine “Friendship of Peoples”; Moreover, at that time it seemed to Arkhangelsky that this was the ceiling of his career - there was nowhere to grow further. He liked the work at the magazine: it was interesting, with a lot of business trips. During that period, Alexander visited Armenia, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan, where for the first time he witnessed the performance of young people with national slogans and felt like a participant in the historical process aimed at changing the situation in the country.

Author's achievements

In the 90s, the writer worked in Switzerland and fell in love with this country very much. There he lectured at the University of Geneva, and the money he earned in three months was enough for him to live for a year in Moscow without poverty. In the capital, Arkhangelsky taught Humanities Department Moscow Conservatory.

Alexander Arkhangelsky went through all the stages at the Izvestia newspaper: first he worked as a columnist, then as deputy editor-in-chief and columnist. From 1992 to 1993 he hosted the “Against the Current” program on RTR, in 2002 - “Chronograph”, is a member of the Union Russian writers, Member of the jury for 1995. Founding academician and president of the Academy of Russian Contemporary Literature.

IN family life Alexander was married twice and has four children from two marriages. Current wife Maria works as a journalist.

Arkhangelsky's television experience

A large number of different opinions evokes “Heat” - a reflective film telling about a unique period in the history of the country and the Church, a tragic, meaningful and deep period.

Watching a film authored by Arkhangelsky evokes very conflicting feelings. On the one hand, the author introduces the audience to the religious searches of the 70-80s of the 20th century, on the other hand, the film shows only a small part of what was happening around in those years Orthodox Church, and tries to convince the viewer that in the USSR the real church existed secretly, and the true Christians were scientists and intellectuals. The rest of the inhabitants of the country of the Soviets simply survived in the created conditions.

Literature in the life of Alexander Arkhangelsky

Arkhangelsky as a writer grew up reading the works of many authors, but Pasternak had a huge influence on him, in whose work future writer plunged headlong. The writer strongly remembers his meeting with Dmitry Nikolaevich Zhuravlev, who had manuscripts of this great writer, donated by the author himself. Then Pushkin opened up for Arkhangelsky at the institute, and after that the whole world literature. Alexander Arkhangelsky has a luxurious library with more than 3,000 books. This is all world classic, and the books are arranged according to the principle of chronology (from ancient oriental and ancient to modern) and according to the principle of having a desire to re-read each one again.

Alexander Arkhangelsky: books by the author

What is literature for Alexander Arkhangelsky? This is the only subject that allows you to rise from a cognitive and practical level to an emotional one.

After all, literature is about the heart, the mind, the mystery of life and death, trials, the past and what surrounds people. It is in her that everything comes to life: from household items to animals. Literature is an important school subject, so Arkhangelsky wrote a textbook on this subject for tenth grade. The purpose of teaching this school subject- teach children to look for and find humanity in a person. Arkhangelsky is also the author and presenter of the series of documentary films “Memory Factories: Libraries of the World.” He has published such works as “The Epistle to Timothy”, “The Price of Cutting Off” and others.

Alexander Arkhangelsky - Cognac "Shirvan" (collection)

Alexander Arkhangelsky - Poetic story by A. S. Pushkin “The Bronze Horseman”

Alexander Arkhangelsky, whose biography spans two eras at once, is a famous TV show host, literary critic, writer and publicist. His opinion is considered authoritative in wide circles - from culture and education to politics.

Childhood

Arkhangelsky Alexander Nikolaevich was born in Moscow on April 27, 1962. His mother, Lyudmila Tikhonovna, separated from his father and raised his only son together with his great-grandmother, who lived to a ripe old age. My mother worked as a radio typist, my great-grandmother was a teacher. primary classes. Despite life in the simplest Soviet family, he is in early age decided on his future destiny. Alexander himself calls this “finding a collar around the neck,” referring to the Russian writer M. Prishvin.

Find yourself

He found his “collar” quickly enough, in school years actively showed interest in subjects related to literature. Decisive role His life was influenced by his studies in the literary circle at the House of Pioneers, where Alexander acquired like-minded people and friends. The head of the circle, Zinaida Novlyanskaya, had a huge influence on him, who brought up a real literary man. After graduating from school, he entered the Lenin Moscow Pedagogical Institute at the Faculty of Russian Language and Literature. There he received a Candidate of Philological Sciences degree, defending a dissertation dedicated to the poet and writer A. S. Pushkin.

Job

Despite studying at pedagogical institute, the career of a teacher did not attract the future writer. While studying in his first year, Alexander got a job at the Palace of Pioneers as the head of a literary circle, where he worked for about 4 years. After which he had an unloved job at the USSR State Television and Radio in the children's editorial office of "Pionerskaya Zorka", from which he left after 9 months, guided, among other things, by the understanding that he needed to do what he really liked.

During the period of perestroika, Alexander Arkhangelsky worked in the magazine “Friendship of Peoples”. Already at the age of 24, he held the position of editor-in-chief and spent a lot of time traveling and on business trips. The difficult political situation of that time allowed him to form his own point of view on history as a whole and understand what it consists of.

Then Alexander Arkhangelsky was invited as a scientific consultant to the journal “Problems of Philosophy”. Around the same time, he completed an internship at the University of Bremen and the Free University of Berlin. After which, as a visiting professor, he lectured at the University of Geneva and taught cultural history at the Moscow State Conservatory. Tchaikovsky. He also worked as a columnist and deputy editor-in-chief of Izvestia magazine and a columnist for Profile magazine. His articles are known in the magazines “Znamya”, “ New world", as well as in Nezavisimaya Gazeta, " Literary newspaper», « Literary Review" In the early 90s, Alexander Arkhangelsky began his work on television.

A television

His first television project became the author's television program “Against the Current,” aired on the RTR channel. Then he hosted the Chronograph program. From 2002 to this day he has been the author, presenter and director of the information and analytical television show “Meanwhile” on the “Culture” channel. The television program is dedicated to the main cultural, economic and political events in the format of an informational and analytical review. It was this project that brought him victory in IV All-Russian competition media workers and a multiple TEFI award.

Since 2007, Alexander Arkhangelsky became a member of the Academy Russian television. Later in 2013, by presidential decree, he was awarded the Order of Friendship “For great services in the development of domestic television and radio broadcasting, culture and many years of fruitful work.”

The authorship of Alexander Arkhangelsky is a series of interesting documentaries “Memory Factory: The Largest Libraries of the World” on the “Culture” channel. The project tells about the most significant libraries of four continents, their history and place in the modern world.

Also under his leadership were filmed documentaries: “Intellectual. Vissarion Belinsky", "Exile. Alexander Herzen", "Idealist. Vladimir Korolenko", "Department", "Heat".

Literary activity

Since 1991, Alexander has been awarded membership in Russian Union writers. He is the author of more than a dozen books. Among them dedicated to creativity A. S. Pushkin: “A poetic story by A. S. Pushkin” Bronze Horseman"" (1990), "Pushkin's Heroes. Essays on Literary Characterology" (1999). There are literary critical and popular science works: "At the Main Entrance" (1991), "Conversations about Russian Literature. The End 18th - first half of the 19th century" (1999). Dedicated to the Russian Emperor the book “Alexander I” was reprinted several times and translated into several languages.

Selected articles by Alexander Arkhangelsky, published in different time in the Izvestia magazine, included in the collection books “Political Correction” (2001) and “Humanitarian Policy” (2006). Weekly columns from the RIA-Novosti website became the basis for the work “Terrible Foshists and Creepy Jews” (2008), which is called the chronicle of modernity. And the conversations within the walls of the television studio ended up on the pages of Alexander Arkhangelsky’s book “Meanwhile” (2009)

Lyrical story “1962. Epistle to Timothy", addressed to his son, brought Alexander Arkhangelsky the prize "For best book, written by a journalist in 2007." And the novel "Museum of the Revolution" won the "Book of the Year - 2013" competition.

Family

Alexander Arkhangelsky (see photo in the article) lives in a marriage and has four children - two daughters and two sons from different wives.

His first wife is Julia. Her work is related to church activities. From this union there were two children left - son Timofey and daughter Lisa. Now Timofey is 25 years old, he is a teacher high school economy. Lisa is 22 years old, after graduating from the Faculty of Economics of Moscow State University, she is studying for a master's degree and works at a news agency.

Alexander's current wife, Maria, is a journalist by profession. Their daughter Sophia turned 14 years old, their son Tikhon - 2 years old. Alexander developed good, trusting relationships with all the children, despite the severity of their upbringing. In his opinion, the choice of occupation, future profession, religions should be made by the child himself without pressure from parents, so that they independently find their “collar”.

Religion

Religion occupies a special place in Alexander's life. There were clergymen in his family, but with the change of generations this connection was broken. In addition, life in a Soviet atheist family left its mark. Alexander came to the church on his own after an infatuation eastern religions and philosophy. In 1981, already a student, he was baptized in the Church of the Prophet Elijah, where at sacred liturgies he often met people well-known in the cultural and scientific community. The theme of the search for God by the intelligentsia Soviet era reflected in Alexander Arkhangelsky's film "Heat".