Дом правительства

IUriĭ Slezkin rasskazyvaet istoriiu Sovetskogo soiuza cherez istoriiu odnogo iz samykh izvestnykh, pokazatelʹnykh i tragicheskikh ego simvolov. Dom pravitelʹstva, on zhe Pervyĭ Dom Sovetov, on zhe legendarnyĭ Dom na naberezhnoĭ. Zdesʹ zhila ėlita SSSR. Uchenye i pisateli, aktery i partiĭnye deiateli, marshaly i izobretateli, vsesilʹnye tirany i ikh zhertvy, te, kogo s vostorgom zhdali u podʺezda radi avtografa, i te, chʹe imia boialisʹ proiznositʹ dazhe na kukhniakh. Demʹian Bednyĭ i Aleksandr Serafimovich, Svetlana Allilueva i Vasiliĭ Stalin, Lavrentiĭ Beriia i Nikita Khrushchëv, Alekseĭ Stakhanov i Artëm Mikoian, Georgiĭ Zhukov i Ivan Bagramian, IUriĭ Trifonov i Pavel Postyshev, Mikhail Tukhachevskiĭ i Vasiliĭ Bliukher. V 1930-e i 1940-e gody okolo 800 zhiteleĭ doma byli repressirovany. Vo vremena bolʹshogo terrora nekotorye kvartiry meniali po neskolʹku khoziaev v mesiats. 'Dom pravitelʹstva' – ėto dokumentalʹnaia istoriia o tom, kak zarozhdalsia, razvivalsia i pogibal ėtot dom. A vmeste s nim i vsia strana.

Yuri Slezkin tells the story of the Soviet Union through the story of one of its most famous, revealing and tragic symbols. Government House, aka the First House of Soviets, aka the legendary House on the embankment. The elite of the USSR lived here. Scientists and writers, actors and party leaders, marshals and inventors, all-powerful tyrants and their victims, those who were enthusiastically waiting at the entrance for an autograph, and those whose name was afraid to say even in the kitchens. Demyan Bedny and Alexander Serafimovich, Svetlana Alliluyeva and Vasily Stalin, Lavrentiy Beria and Nikita Khrushchev, Alexey Stakhanov and Artem Mikoyan, Georgy Zhukov and Ivan Bagramyan, Yuri Trifonov and Pavel Postyshev, Mikhail Tukhachevsky and Vasily Blucher. In the 1930s and 1940s, about 800 residents of the house were repressed. During the Great Terror, some apartments changed hands several times a month. "Government House" is a documentary story about how this house was born, developed and died. And with it the whole country.