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Artemy Kivovich Troitsky(at birth - Maidanik; genus. June 16, Yaroslavl) - rock journalist, music critic, one of the first promoters of rock music in the USSR, indie (independent) and electronic music in Russia. Jury member and organizer of numerous concerts and festivals, presenter of these concerts. One of the leading specialists in contemporary music in Russia. In the mid-2000s, he organized several music labels - Priboy, Zenith, Zakat, which release little-known music in Russia.
Biography
Born June 16, 1955 in Yaroslavl in the family of a political scientist and Latin American historian Kiva Lvovich Maidanik. Mother - Rufina Nikolaevna Troitskaya. He spent his childhood in Prague, where his parents worked as employees of the journal Problems of Peace and Socialism.
From 1972 to 1974 he led discos in the main building of Moscow State University, in the cafe B-4. In 1977 he graduated with a degree in mathematics and economics. From 1978 to 1983 he worked as a junior research fellow at the Institute of Art History. He was fired before he could defend his Ph.D. thesis on the sociology of popular music (moreover, as he wrote in the book Rattlesnake Skeletons in the Closet. The East Reddens, he threw the dissertation text into the dustbin).
He taught a master class in music journalism at the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University. In an interview in 2015, Troitsky noted that he was "survived" from Moscow State University after 13 years of teaching.
Since mid-September 2014 he lives in Tallinn, Estonia, where he teaches, also teaches in Finland and London, and gives separate lectures in many other places.
Journalism
He is the author and host of the program "" on the radio station "Finam FM" (until September 2010 - on the radio "Echo of Moscow"). Also, on "Echo", Troitsky acts as a guest in the " Minority Opinion" program. In 2010, a conflict broke out between Troitsky and the deputy editor-in-chief of the Echo of Moscow radio station, Sergei Buntman, over the song Noize MC "Mercedes S666", released in connection with the death of a famous obstetrician V. M. Sidelnikova in an accident.
Concert organization
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, he organized underground concerts and festivals of Soviet rock bands, among which were "Time Machine", "Dynamik", "Zoo", "Kino", A. Bashlachev. He was the organizer and jury member of the festival “Spring Rhythms. Tbilisi-1980", thanks to which the groups "Time Machine", "Magnetic Band", "Aquarium" and "Autograph" gained wide popularity. He was one of the first to notice the talent of Vasily Shumov and the Center group, whom he later helped and patronized in every possible way.
In the late 1980s, he initiated concert performances outside the USSR of such groups as "AVIA", "Sounds of Mu", "Games", "TV", "Bravo", "Automatic Satisfiers". In 1994 he organized the Britronica Festival of British Electronic Music in Moscow. Since 1999 he has been organizing club concerts in Moscow. He organized and patronized the performances of such bands and performers as Julie Cruz, Fantastic Plastic Machine, StereoTotal, Mouse On Mars, De Phazz, Suicide, Sonic Youth and others, whose tours were organized by the Moscow company Caviar Lounge. With his suggestion, the Finnish group Eläkeläiset performed for the first time in Moscow, after which an official CD release of this group was released in Russia and Finland.
In 2003-2004 he was the chairman of the jury of the International Festival of Ethnic Music "Sayan Ring" in Shushenskoye (since 2012 the festival has been called "The World of Siberia"). Together with Irina Shcherbakova, he founded the Caviar Lounge company, which has been organizing concerts by foreign musicians in Russia for 10 years now.
Concert Birthday of Viktor Tsoi
On June 21, 2002, he organized a tribute concert by the Kino group - "Viktor Tsoi's Birthday" at the Petersburg sports and concert complex, dedicated to the 40th anniversary of the birth of Viktor Tsoi. He acted as the host of this concert, Moroz Records released a music album with a recording of the concert.
A television
AT different years hosted the programs "Cultural Goods" and "Kings of the Song" on the Kultura TV channel. In 2004, he made the program "Signs of Life" for Ren-TV. In the late 2000s, he hosted the program “Professor Troitsky and Comrade Artyom” on Style TV.
Since 2010, he has been hosting the TV program Rock Experience: Year by Year on Internet TV.
Music
Artemy Troitsky recorded several songs as part of his own project "Soviet Porn". The first recording was a cover of Alla Pugacheva (the song "Queen"), recorded together with Roman Belavkin (Solar X). The second track was the song "Snow from her hair", recorded with musician Oleg Nesterov for the film Down House. The third track, "I gave you spring", was recorded together with Andrey Samsonov for the collection dedicated to the memory of Dyusha Romanov "My Musician Friend". With Misha Vivisectors (The Vivisectors) Artemy Troitsky recorded two tracks - "Agent 008" and "Sha Pu Na Na".
Filmography
- - "Masters of the USSR, or the Monkey's Snout" (NOMFILM)
- - Down House by Roman Kachanov - Totsky
- - "Paul Mccartney In Red Square" - cameo
- - "Young and happy" - voodoo sorcerer
- - Arie - Criminal authority
- - "Day Watch" - birthday guest
- - "Tumbler"
- - "Gloss" - Mark, thief in law
- - Star Pile - God
- - Gene Concrete - party leader
Radio
The main radio broadcast of Artemy Troitsky is a program that was first called "Uncle Ko's Ark" (1990-1996), then for a very long time - "" (1996-2013), and since March 2013 has been called "Stereo Voodoo". In the program, the author introduces listeners to recently released music that does not fall under the formats of other radio stations and is not published by major labels. Another concern of the presenter is that this music be of the most different points Earth. Over the years of the program's existence, melodies from 80-90% of the world's countries, including island microstates, have been played in it.
- Under the name "Uncle Ko's Ark", the program was broadcast on radio stations: "All-Union Radio", "Radio Maximum" and "Radio 101" (1990-1996).
- Under the name "FM Dostoevsky" The program was broadcast on the radio stations: "Europe Plus", "Radio 101", "Echo of Moscow" and "Finam FM" (1996-2013).
- Under the name "Stereo Voodoo", 131 episodes of the program were released on Rock FM radio (from March 25, 2013 to December 28, 2015).
- Since 2016, Artemy Troitsky plans to work for Radio Imagine.
In the mid-2000s, Artemy Troitsky on Ekho Moskvy released another weekly music program - Red Corner. In addition, the journalist several times a year becomes a guest in the Special Opinion program, where he comments on current socio-political news. Artemy Troitsky's visits to Ekho Moskvy are such a success that the journalist from time to time gets into the top 7 employees of the radio station.
In 2010, he was suspended from participating in the Special Opinion program of the Ekho Moskvy radio station when he tried to broadcast it.
Books
In 1990, the book “Party. What happened to the Soviet underground”, not published in Russia. According to A. Troitsky himself in an interview: “ interesting times” - political - was published in Finland. Just recently, my new book “I will introduce you to the world ... Pop” appeared.
In 2009, the SOYUZ Publishing House published an audiobook “Back in the USSR. True story rock in Russia" read by Artemy Troitsky and Alexander Klyukvin.
Bibliography
Criticism from musicians
About Artemy Kivovich in the repertoire of the ensemble “Cockroaches! ” there is a song called “Mr. Music Critic”, which questions the value of the work of a music critic, both in general and on the example of A.T.
Troitsky is also mentioned in the song of the Chaif group - "Suburban Blues No. 3", a rap group
Artemy Kivovich Troitsky (birth name - Artemy Kivovich Maidanik, June 16, 1955, Yaroslavl) - rock journalist, music critic, one of the first promoters of rock music in the USSR, indie (independent) and electronic music in Russia.
Jury member and organizer of numerous concerts and festivals. One of the leading specialists in contemporary music in Russia. In the mid-2000s, he organized several music labels - Priboy, Zenith, Zakat, which release little-known music in Russia.
Born June 16, 1955 in Yaroslavl in the family of a prominent Bolshevik and Soviet political scientist and historian Kiva Lvovich Maidanik. Mother - Rufina Nikolaevna Troitskaya.
He spent his childhood in Prague, where his parents worked as employees of the journal "Problems of Peace and Socialism".
From 1972 to 1974 he led discos in the main building of Moscow State University, in the cafe B-4.
In 1977 he graduated from the Moscow Institute of Economics and Statistics with a degree in mathematics and economics.
From 1978 to 1983 he worked as a junior research fellow at the Institute of Art History. He was fired before he could defend his Ph.D. thesis on the sociology of popular music (moreover, as he wrote in the book Rattlesnake Skeletons in the Closet. The East Reddens, he threw the dissertation text into the dustbin).
From 1982 to 1983 he was the guitarist of the Sounds of Mu band. One of the founders of the label "General records". Wife Vera, three children (Alexandra, born in 1998, Ivan, born in 2002 and Lydia, born in 2010).
Since 2001 he has been lecturing on the subjects "History of the Entertainment Industry" and "Music Press" at the Faculty of "Production and Management in Music Show Business" State University management.
He taught a master class in music journalism at the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University.
Since mid-September 2014 lives in Tallinn, Estonia.
Artemy Troitsky. A story about how I sang at a wedding
Artemy Troitsky - journalist
Troitsky's debut as a rock journalist took place in 1967, he wrote a review of The Beatles' album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, published in a school self-made magazine. He wrote articles about rock music in the peer magazine at a time when rock music was out of favor with the USSR authorities. The first such publication was an article about the Deep Purple group "Dark Purple Five" in 1975.
In 1979, he visited Elton John's concerts in Moscow in order to personally feel the difference between the performances of this performer in Europe and in the USSR (according to him, shortly before that, he had attended a concert in Austria).
In 1981, he was a member of the editorial board of the samizdat magazine Zerkalo. His publications were banned from the Soviet press from 1983 to 1985.
From 1995 to 1996 he was the first chief editor of the Russian version of Playboy magazine. Later, he collaborated with other publications, including Novaya Gazeta (since 1997, the head of the Novaya Gazeta. Monday weekly column, a member of the editorial board and author of the Moskovsky Beat musical supplement).
Music columnist for the Moscow Times newspaper.
In 2000, he began editing the column "Diversant-Daily" on the portal estart.ru, which grew into a separate Internet project of Troitsky "Diversant-Daily" (currently not supported). He is an expert of the International Expert Council of the Virtual Producer Center "Record v 2.0".
In 2010, a conflict broke out between Troitsky and Sergei Buntman, deputy editor-in-chief of the Ekho Moskvy radio station, over the Noize MC song “Mercedes S666”, released in connection with the death of the famous obstetrician V. M. Sidelnikova in an accident.
Artemy Troitsky. Cold season trash parade
In the late 1970s - early 1980s, he organized underground concerts and festivals of Soviet rock bands, among which were "Time Machine", "Dynamik", "Zoo", "Kino", A. Bashlachev. He was the organizer and jury member of the festival “Spring Rhythms. Tbilisi-1980", thanks to which the groups "Time Machine", "Magnetic Band", "Aquarium" and "Autograph" gained wide popularity. He was one of the first who noticed the talent of Vasily Shumov and the Center group, whom he later helped and patronized in every possible way.
In the late 1980s, he initiated concert performances outside the USSR of such groups as AVIA, Sounds of Mu, Games, TV, Bravo, Automatic Satisfiers.
In 1994 he organized the Britronica Festival of British Electronic Music in Moscow. Since 1999 he has been organizing club concerts in Moscow. He organized and patronized the performances of such bands and performers as Julie Cruz, Fantastic Plastic Machine, StereoTotal, Mouse On Mars, De Phazz, Suicide, Sonic Youth and others, whose tours were organized by the Moscow company Caviar Lounge. With his suggestion, the Finnish group Eläkeläiset performed for the first time in Moscow, after which an official CD release of this group was released in Russia and Finland.
In 2003-2004 he was the chairman of the jury of the International Festival of Ethnic Music "Sayan Ring" in Shushenskoye (since 2012 the festival has been called "The World of Siberia"). Together with Irina Shcherbakova, he founded the Caviar Lounge company, which has been organizing concerts by foreign musicians in Russia for 10 years now.
Artemy Troitsky on television
Until 1986, together with Janis Šipkevis and Juris Podnieks, he hosted the program “Videorhythms” dedicated to video clips on Latvian television.
In the 1980s - 1990s, he participated in the creation of the TV show "Program A", in which he led the heading "Avant-garde".
From 1991 to the beginning of 1994 he worked in the TO "Artel" Russian television, heading the department of music programs. He was involved in such television programs as "Rock Cafe", "Silence Number 9", "Music in the Style of Pepsi", "Exotica", "Program A", "Rosmusimport".
From 1994 to 1996 he worked on the NTV channel, where he hosted the popular author's program Cafe Oblomov.
In 1997, Cafe Oblomov appeared on RTR.
Over the years, he hosted the programs “Cultural Goods” and “Kings of the Song” on the Kultura TV channel.
In 2004, he made the program "Signs of Life" for Ren-TV.
In the late 2000s, he hosted the program “Professor Troitsky and Comrade Artyom” on Style TV.
Since 2010, he has been hosting the TV program Rock Experience: Year After Year on TVJam Internet TV.
Artemy Troitsky - musician
Alexander Lipnitsky mentions that the first singing experience of Artemy Troitsky took place in 1986 in the recreation center of the Kurchatov IAE, when they, together with Vasily Shumov's group "Center", performed the rock opera "Arthur Rambo". Then, out of embarrassment, the rock master hid behind a speaker.
Artemy Troitsky recorded several songs as part of his own project "Soviet Porn". The first recording was a cover on (the song "Queen"), recorded together with Roman Belavkin (Solar X).
The second track was the song "Snow from her hair", recorded with musician Oleg Nesterov for the film Down House.
The third track, "I gave you spring", was recorded together with Andrey Samsonov for the collection dedicated to the memory of Dyusha Romanov "My Musician Friend".
With Misha Vivisectors (The Vivisectors) Artemy Troitsky recorded two tracks - "Agent 008" and "Sha Pu Na Na".
Artemy Troitsky on the radio
The main radio broadcast of Artemy Troitsky is a program that was first called "Uncle Ko's Ark" (1990-1996), then for a very long time - "FM Dostoevsky" (1996-2013), and since March 2013 it has been called "Stereo Voodoo". In the program, the author introduces listeners to recently released music that does not fit the formats of other radio stations and is not released by major labels. Another concern of the presenter is that this music be from various parts of the Earth. Over the years of the program's existence, melodies from 80-90% of the world's countries, including island microstates, have been played in it.
Under the name "Uncle Ko's Ark", the program was broadcast on radio stations: "All-Union Radio", "Radio Maximum" and "Radio 101" (1990-1996).
Under the name "FM Dostoevsky", the program was broadcast on radio stations: "Europe Plus", "Radio 101", "Echo of Moscow" and "Finam FM" (1996-2013).
Under the name "Stereo Voodoo", 131 episodes of the program were released on Rock FM radio (from March 25, 2013 to December 28, 2015).
Since 2016, Artemy Troitsky plans to work for Radio Imagine.
In the mid-2000s, Artemy Troitsky on Ekho Moskvy released another weekly music program - Red Corner. In addition, the journalist several times a year becomes a guest in the Special Opinion program, where he comments on current socio-political news. Artemy Troitsky's visits to Ekho Moskvy are such a success that the journalist from time to time gets into the top 7 employees of the radio station.
In 2010, he was suspended from participation in the "Special Opinion" program of the radio station "Echo of Moscow" when he tried to air the track Noize MC Mercedes S666.
Artemy Troitsky - writer
In 1987, Artemy Troitsky published in England (then in America, Japan and Europe) the book “Back to the USSR” about the history of Soviet rock music, which was published in the USSR under the title “Rock in the Union: 1960s, 1970s, 1980s...” only in 1991.
In 1990, the book “Party. What happened to the Soviet underground”, not published in Russia. According to A. Troitsky himself in an interview: "Interesting Times" - political - was published in Finland. Just recently, my new book “I will introduce you to the world ... Pop” appeared.
In 2009, the SOYUZ Publishing House published an audiobook “Back in the USSR. The true history of rock in Russia” read by Artemy Troitsky and Alexander Klyukvin.
Bibliography of Artemy Troitsky:
1987 - “Rock in the Union: 60s, 70s, 80s ...” (first published in England under the title “Back to the USSR”, published in the USSR only in 1991). Considered the world's first publication dedicated to Russian rock
1990 - “Party. What happened to the Soviet underground"
1990 - "Pop Lexicon"
1999 - "Interesting Times"
2003 - "Moscow" from dawn to dawn. Party leader"
2006 - "I will introduce you to the world of Pop ..."
2007 - "Back in the USSR" Reissue of the book "Rock in the Union: 60s, 70s, 80s ..."
2008 - "Rattlesnake Skeletons in the Closet" (Part I - "The West is Rotting", Part II - "The East is Reddening", 2008)
2009 - "Poplex" Revised and expanded edition of the book "Pop Lexicon"
2009 - audiobook "Back in the USSR. The true history of rock in Russia"
The political position of Artemy Troitsky
On February 4, 2012, Artemy Troitsky took part in the rally "For Fair Elections" on Bolotnaya Square in Moscow.
On April 3, 2014, in an interview with the Special Opinion program on Ekho Moskvy radio, Troitsky sharply criticized Russia and the president personally for foreign policy in relation to Ukraine, in particular, the “Russian military intervention” in Ukraine in March 2014 and the “Crimean referendum” held on March 16, 2014.
In January 2010, in an interview with the online magazine SLON, he said: "I consider Russian men for the most part to be animals, creatures not even of the second, but of the third grade."
Filmography of Artemy Troitsky:
1994 - "Masters of the USSR, or the Monkey's Snout" (NOMFILM)
2000 - "Down House" by Roman Kachanov - Totsky
2003 - "Paul Mccartney In Red Square" - cameo
2004 - "Young and happy" - voodoo sorcerer
2005 - Arye - crime boss
2005 - "Day Watch" - a guest at a birthday party
2007 - "Tumbler"
2007 - "Gloss" - Mark, thief in law
2011 - Star nap - Lord God
2014 - Gena Beton - party leader
Vladimir Polupanov:"AiF"- Artyom, they say that you are now a rare guest in Moscow, what made you move to Tallinn? Has the capital of Estonia become a musical Mecca?
Artemy Troitsky:- I moved to Tallinn with my whole family, first of all, due to the fact that there is clearly not enough work for me in my homeland, and in Estonia I was offered it. In addition to teaching, I host a music radio program and write columns for Estonian newspapers. I am still a Russian citizen, I visit Moscow and St. Petersburg every month. And I'm on the waiting list. Communicating with the people of my professional circle, I see that all of them also live as if under the sword of Damocles: they are afraid of being fired, lowering their wages. So working in Russia has become very unsettling and unsteady because of the crisis.
— In your opinion, what is the future scenario for the development of events in Russia?
- The most likely one is that Russia will become a third world country and a raw material appendage, on the one hand, of the West, on the other, of China (as if geographically dispersed Saudi Arabia or Iran). This does not mean that the people will necessarily live badly. A country can be quite rich, since there is still oil, gas, metal, timber, fresh water, etc., but not very advanced, conservative and backward in terms of science and education, all the achievements of which are in the past, and not in future.
The scenario in which Russia can experience a real dawn, I can connect with the rise of science, technology, education, culture, economic reforms, etc. This is my dream. But I have no confidence that even if we urgently begin to carry out some urgent reforms, we will have time to jump on the bandwagon of the last carriage of the outgoing train.
- As far as I understand, life in America is also hard. You yourself said that she “deceives many with false complacency and general comfort. But in fact, there is a terribly stressful life, and there are holes behind the facade of well-being.
— Yes, there are no ideal places to live in the world. America is also full of problems. I have been there many times, even worked a couple of times, and I lecture there all the time. I don't really like the American way of life - it's exhausting. There is not a nominal one, as it was in the USSR, but a real labor cult. And if a person wants, without any kind of financial support, to live for his own pleasure, to engage in creativity, to switch off from this gigantic money-making mechanism, he has a hard time there. For me, the image of America from the film is still relevant. Charlie Chaplin"New Times", where he is first thrown to the conveyor, and then sucked into the mechanism with gears.
- With age, as I see it, your optimism has greatly diminished?
— Undoubtedly, I became more pessimistic. The main reason for pessimism is that, looking at what is happening in the world (not only in Russia), I see that life in the 21st century, our human civilization has gone somewhere in the wrong direction. It is obvious to me that, despite all the technological advances (Internet, iPhones, etc.), people today live much less happy, much more anxious, stressed than they lived, say, in the 80s and even 90s. . This applies to both Europe and the United States no less than Russia. And since I have children, it worries me. All the hopes of parents, of course, are connected with the fact that their children will live better or at least as cheerfully as their parents. I don't have that feeling. On the contrary, we are very worried about the future of our children.
— Hasn't a great ideological catastrophe happened to your generation (I mean not only you, but also Makarevich, Shevchuk, Grebenshchikov, etc.)?
- You formulated it quite correctly, but I would say that this is not so much an ideological catastrophe as a personal drama. I look at it rather abstractly, as opposed to Makarevich, Shevchuk and BG. It is incomprehensible and mysterious to me how millions of our people, who for 40 years loved the same Makarevich, adored him, sang his songs, and not on orders from above, suddenly managed to hate him and call him a traitor? The BG song “Harvest Festival in the Palace of Labor” begins with the line: “No matter how much we sang, it’s the same as being silent.” The whole message of Russian rock - freedom-loving, anti-war, love each other - has evaporated somewhere. You might think that all these years people listened only to the song “Get up, the country is huge”, and not “New turn”, “For those who are in the sea”, etc. And Makarevich, and Shevchuk, and Grebenshchikov thought that they , at least, people who were not only listened to, but also heard, understood, approved. Now, of course, all these hopes of theirs lie in ruins. They suffer very much. Although the blow is kept.
- In the public mind, you are a music critic, because it is in this area that you have made a career. Are you still interested in this area today, or has it become boring to write about music, analyze it and listen to it?
— With full confidence I can say that I still love music and listen to it a lot. First of all, new. I don't get hung up on my favorite music of my youth. I am constantly trying to learn new things. If we talk about the profession of music criticism, then I would say that now it is in demand no less than before. But sharpened in a slightly different way. If music criticism used to involve some kind of analytics or historiography, it was more serious, now music criticism is, first of all, navigation through the boundless space of the music Internet. Since people in this space, including rather cunning music lovers, tend to get lost, it is very important that there are navigator guides who can somehow orient listeners in this confusing and difficult musical world. I must say that most of my professional activity is still connected with music. I have three music radio programs "Stereowoodu" in Moscow, "New Music for Adults" (in Tallinn) and "Rock and Roll in breadth and depth" (in St. Petersburg). All three programs are musical. In addition, I have not yet given up trying to revive the award " steppe wolf". Well, sometimes there are publications on a musical theme. Although I haven't written any serious articles about music for a long time.
- At the universities of Tallinn and Helsinki, you give a course of lectures on youth movements in Russia - dandyism, Decembrism, hipsterism. Is there a great interest among students in the topic of Russian youth movements?
- One of the courses of lectures that I read is entitled: "Youth Movements and Subculture of Russia from the beginning of the 19th to the beginning of the 21st century." And there really can be a subtitle "From dandies and Decembrists to gopniks and hipsters." Since the students are young people, and all these movements are youth, there is great interest in these lectures, and they are surprisingly fun for me.
— Do you think there are any interesting youth movements in Russia today? In my opinion, hipsterism is not so much Russian as an international phenomenon and is more focused on external manifestations than on the manifestation of the spirit?
- I agree, hipsterism is not a very interesting movement and is more external than having internal philosophical nourishment. Pretty decorative I would say. As for the ideologically motivated movements, here they can be listed for quite some time. On the one hand, there is a nice volunteer movement. Guys who volunteer to help people. A sort of Timurov twenty-first century. And the missing people are searched for, and fires are extinguished, and the elderly are taken care of. This is a very correct move. On the other hand, there is a less attractive movement, as a rule, sponsored from above - the ever-memorable Nashi, Anti-Maidan. And there is something to talk about.
- Do you agree that such a phenomenon as the Decembrists is impossible in Russia today?
- This is, of course, a very difficult question. Studying both the Decembrist movement and the Narodnaya Volya movement (since it is still closer to today's realities, including the movement of young Marxists, to which Lenin once belonged), of course, I draw attention to the fact that people who were the same and sometimes younger than today's hipsters were obsessed with completely different ideas and much more serious than today's youth. What is it connected with? In many ways, with some kind of general infantilization of society, and not only in Russia. This is partly due, of course, to the attitudes of the consumer society, which, of course, have largely reconfigured people from the idealistic to the materialistic. By the way, I don’t think at all that people, including young people, have become so small that they can’t do anything at all. We now have both devotees and people who are ready to take risks and hardships for the sake of an idea. Another thing is that they are in a clear minority. And they are not yet able to shake the total amorphous mass.
- I was at the recent Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna and, frankly, I was very surprised at how popular Thomas Neuwirth (in a female form and with a Conchita Wurst beard) is among Europeans. I thought that this popularity is local. Well, they giggled and forgot. An no. He (or she) advertises banks, appears on TV, visits kindergartens and schools in Austria, telling about the success story. Do you think the Europeans went too far with tolerance in this case?- If you look at all this objectively, then the entire vector of development of today's Western civilization is aimed at tolerance, tolerance, including in terms of sexual orientation. Theoretically, this is true, since it is not good to rank or segregate people based on their sexual orientation. On the other hand, and this is already mine subjective view, I believe that the pathos that is now available in Europe and North America around the gay movement is redundant. It seems to me that, in principle, the topic of sexual orientation, as well as the topic of delicate illnesses or religion, should remain in the sphere of the personal, intimate and not spill out to such a degree as it is done now. I don't like it, not because I'm a homophobe or homophile (laughs), but simply because I sincerely believe that no one should care what other people's sexual orientation is. In the same way, the subjects of this same sexual orientation, in my opinion, are completely unnecessary to impose their homo-aesthetics on everyone around them. For example, when people ask me from time to time whether I am against or for the so-called gay parades, I answer: I don’t understand about gay parades: a) why should they be banned? b) why should they be carried out?
Artemy Troitsky with his daughter Photo: www.russianlook.com
What moods prevail in Europe today regarding Russia? Are we afraid, hated, respected?
- I think that in relation to Russia, sentiments are very different. It largely depends on geography. In Estonia, where I spend most of my time, the attitude towards Russia among the Estonian majority is rather wary. Estonia is one of the border countries. People, in general, are afraid of Russia. As for the countries of southern, western and central Europe, they didn’t have much to do with Russia, and still don’t. I have not met with any cases of Russophobia. From time to time I attend some conferences where scientists, Kremlinologists, political scientists, experts, analysts gather... here the attitude towards Russia is quite critical. Although there are also different approaches. There are people who believe that Russia needs to be actively opposed because it behaves offensively aggressively. There are people who believe that one can give up on Russia, the main thing is to ensure the integrity of the border states and the inviolability of their borders. But, in general, I would say that the attitude towards the Russian people has not changed at all. Much more cool and indifferent in the bad sense of the word was the attitude towards the Russian state.
- Do you notice obvious age-related changes in yourself, not external, but internal?
- Naturally. I became calmer and more careful in my assessments. More restrained in speeches. And in this sense, he became, perhaps, not as reckless and radical as he was until recently. Partly, perhaps lawsuits I was taught something (and there were 7 in total and all in one year - 2011). In part, perhaps, the wisdom that came over the years. Although I still feel very young. I am, after all, a young dad. The youngest daughter of Lydia was not yet 5 years old. So I can’t say that I feel completely elderly.
On June 16, 1955, the odious and talented journalist Artemy Troitsky was born in the glorious city of Yaroslavl. He always stood out among his colleagues for his integrity and ability to tell the truth in any situation.
Biography
The father and mother of the future journalist worked in scientific institutions. Dad, Kiva Lvovich Maidanik, historian, political analyst, was on the staff of the periodical. As a child, Artemy ended up in Prague, where his father was sent on a business trip to work at the publishing house "Problems of Peace and Socialism". The son grew up smart and capable, at school he had no problems with any subject. After successfully graduating from school, he entered the Economic Institute in Moscow, where he began to get involved in music. Many fellow students remember the disc jockey Artemy, who led discos for students in the Yu-4 cafe and the main building of the university. In 1977, he successfully passed his final exams, defended his diploma and got a job at the Institute of History, where he tried to defend his dissertation work related to pop music.
But in 1983, Troitsky was fired, and out of frustration, the guy abandoned the idea of completing his dissertation. Back in 1967, Artemy Troitsky wrote a critical essay on the disc of the Liverpool four "The Beatles" called "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. But in those days, rock music was under pressure, and writing about foreign artists was only possible in underground magazines. But still, many fans of this genre remember Troitsky's work. Not everyone was able to listen to the records of legendary performers in those years, but thanks to the work and business trips of his father, our hero could boast of another novelty from abroad. In 1975, the young critic began to publish his articles in the magazine "Peer". Thanks to the "thaw", he was able to openly express his opinion about the famous rock band Deer Purple. It is also worth noting here that work in the publication became possible due to the efforts of an influential father, Maidanik. Artemy could attend concerts of rock vocalists in the countries of the socialist camp, and since then he has become an ardent admirer of new trends in European music. Having gained experience, in 1981 Troitsky went to work for the Zerkalo magazine. Here, the young critic did not restrain his emotions and spoke with might and main about the "stagnation" of the Soviet stage and incessantly praised the Western one. After several such works, the critic was fired, banned from writing in the domestic press at all. Realizing that you can’t cook porridge with the ideologists of the Union, Troitsky temporarily abandoned his journalistic work and began to collaborate with musicians. Back in the 70s, Troitsky was familiar with underground musicians. Having accumulated certain funds in the early 80s, he became the main organizer of concerts of the musical underground of the Union. Thanks to his efforts, the public got acquainted with the work of the amazing groups "Dynamik", "Time Machine", "Kino". Performers gathered entire stadiums, Troitsky organized festivals, after which the legends of Soviet rock began to openly perform for the audience. But among them, for Artemy Troitsky, the Center group was the most important. He organized performances of the ensemble many times and still maintains friendly relations with the guys. Further more. Artemy Troitsky dreamed of introducing Soviet rockers to foreign audiences at all costs and gradually began to arrange concerts in Europe for such groups as Bravo, TV, Sounds of Mu, etc. As a result, they began to cooperate with him foreign musicians, and the groups "Suicide", "De Fuzz", "Stereototal", etc. were able to come to the Union. International festivals of rock and ethno music began to be held at music venues. In addition, the journalist and concert organizer tried to make music, but never became the idol of millions. Few of the listeners remember the compositions “Snow from her hair”, “Agent 008”, but everyone knows Troitsky as a talented manager and organizer. After the collapse of the Union, Artemy returned to journalism, in 1995 he became the head of Russian version Playboy publications. From 1995 to 1996 he worked on television, hosted the program "Cafe Oblomov". At the same time, his notes were published in the Moscow Times, Novaya Gazeta, and Saboteur Daily. Now a talented publicist and journalist is a frequent guest on television and radio broadcasts, the luminaries of domestic rock and pop music are considered with his opinion.
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Personal life
Artemy Kivovich was married several times. When asked if he is a loving person, he replies: “Yes!” From the elementary grades, he began to get involved in girls, and the first kiss happened in the 4th grade. For the first time he became a father at the age of 36, the daughter of Alexander was born, with whom the man constantly maintains a relationship. The girl is addicted fiction, wrote a fantasy novel, gets along well with Troitsky's children from her next marriage. The first official union concluded at the age of 40 and hoped that it would be forever.
Daughter Sonya was born, but family troubles, the constant employment of our hero led to a complete quarrel, and the couple divorced. At the age of 55, he married his longtime friend Veronica, in this marriage a son, Ivan, and a daughter, Lydia, were born. The Troitsky family recently moved to Estonia, the reason for this was their disagreement with the policy of the Russian leadership. The town was chosen by Vera's wife on the Internet, the couple lives in a spacious apartment in Myakha. The youngest daughter, Lidia, is studying the local language and has already begun to understand Estonian. Artemy himself calls his step "internal emigration." Only after the half-century anniversary, he realized what family happiness and harmony are. The journalist recalls that until the age of 40 he was not serious about relationships, he was fussing more and more, he was afraid not to be in time somewhere. Now he is absolutely a family man and oh ex-wives remembers more like good friends.