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Biography, life story of the group "Dune"
The Dune group was formed in 1987 and at first played hard rock music that was fashionable at that time. As a "heavy" team, it did not gain much popularity, although it consisted of musicians who later became celebrities in this particular field. They were guitarist Dmitry Chetvergov, drummer Andrey Shatunovsky and vocalist Andrey Rublev. The other two members of Dyuna were Viktor Rybin and Sergei Katin. They were the first to feel that "the chip does not work", and were the main ideologists of the changes that occurred in 1988 in the stage and musical concept of the team.
Already focusing on simpler, but nonetheless cocky, hooligan material, the duet Rybin - Katin, which by that time had become the indivisible core of "Dune" and surrounded by frequently updated session musicians, introduced the group to the bosom of the Moscow Regional Philharmonic. From the Philharmonic "Dune" traveled around the country for a whole year and performed in the same program with other "philharmonic" Alexander Serov and Pavel Smeyan. On these trips, the hit "Country Limonia" was born, which played an important role in the formation of the team's success.
New 1989 began for the "Dune" is very favorable. On January 6, the popular program "Musical Elevator" broadcast the so-called "video clip" (actually a staged concert footage) with "Country Limonia" to the entire territory of the then USSR. For the next 12 months, "Dune" did not sing anything but this hit. Nowhere! Only in December the songs "Firma" ("I don't know a cooler word...") and "Give-give!" appeared. On them, as well as on the "lemon" hit, "Dune" shot a real clip - these were the first Soviet music videos made in the "cinema" vein.
In May 1990, Dune, as one of the "HEADliners", performed at the "Soundtrack" festival in front of the full hall of the Olimpiysky Sports Palace, where she made a splash. At the same time, she had problems on television, as suddenly activated censors took up arms against "too uncomplexed" artists. And when, due to someone's oversight, the new work "Drink, Vanya, don't get sick!" leaked into the air, half of the leadership of the guilty channel "2x2" was deprived of their posts by the top television authorities.
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However, the officials could not help but respond to the mass popularity of "Dune", and soon the "Country of Limonia" was included in the "Song of the Year" program, and the state-owned company "Melody" released a vinyl "forty-five" of the group, also called "Country of Limonia" (in the maxi- single included 8 songs). "Dune" turned into the People's Treasure of the Soviet Union immortalized in all possible forms at that time.
Further events developed rapidly - in a kaleidoscope of numerous tours and sketchy studio work. In 1991, the "forty-five" "Country Limoniya" with four added tracks was re-released already on a regular long-playing phonograph record. A few months later, a very fresh album "Behind Us Dolgoprudny" was released, which became famous for the provocative song "Greetings from the Big Badun". Unexpectedly, Sergei Katin left Dune, who got married and went to "conquer" France as a musician.
Rybin did not grieve for long - under his leadership, the team spent the whole next year in endless concerts and released their first CD "Dune, Dyunochka, Dyuna, greetings from the big Badun", consisting of old things. Finally, in 1993, when it was time to prove to everyone that even without Katin, who wrote most of the "duno hits", the group could live, Victor sat in the studio for 20 days and single-handedly mastered the cycle of a dozen works: "Zhenya", "Machine gun", "Limpompo"... He named it in retaliation to his former companion... "Vitek". The face of "Dune" became even more hooligan, but this was greeted with enthusiasm by the fans. The career of musicians entered a new round, when hardly anything could now interfere with its progress.
The year 1994 was marked by two discs at once, which added to the discography of "Dunes". This is "But we don't care" with the famous "Borka the Womanizer" and "Dream" (or "Sea of Beer", as the people call it) plus "Golden Childhood", where Rybin and Co. sang their favorite children's songs by Vladimir Shainsky, Yuri Entin and others. In 1995, the "French loser" Sergei Katin returned to Rybin with a confession. Victor accepted his friend as the mother of the prodigal son, and the result of their reunion was the disc "In the Big City". She gave the public the hits "Communal Apartment", "Lanterns", "About Vasya".
True, Katin did not claim to become a full member of the Dune. He remained behind the scenes, only occasionally writing some songs for Vitka and his associates. A year later, "Dune" gave birth to the album "I sewed a brand new suit", which the Soyuz studio published in January 1997. And on March 8 of the same year, Rybin congratulated the women of Russia with his debut solo work, Let's Talk About Love, Mademoiselle. Absolutely all the numbers for her were created by Katin - Victor only voiced his ideas. But despite the "soloness", the listeners still perceived "Mademoiselle" in the same way as any other album of "Dunes" - that is, well!
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Dune- Soviet Russian musical group, formed in 1987.
Compound
- Victor "Fish" Rybin - vocals, percussion. The permanent leader from the creation of the group to the present day
- Igor Plyaskin - guitar In the group since 2002
- Misha "Filyovsky Werewolf" Dulsky - guitar. Member of the group since 1992.
- Andrey "Fat" Apukhtin - keyboards. Has been with the group since 1991.
- Renat "Grach" Sharibzhanov - bass guitar. Member of the group since 1993.
- Mikhail "Mefodiy" Yudin - drums. With the group in 2006.
Former Members
- Dmitry Chetvergov - guitarist, one of the founders of the Dune group, worked from 1987 to 1989.
- Andrey Shatunovsky - drummer. In the group from 1987 to 1988
- Sergey Katin - Vocalist. c 1988-1991, 1995-1999 one of the two creators of the second composition of Dune, 1988, the second - Viktor Rybin
- Andrey Rublev - vocalist from 1987-1989,
- Alexander Serov and Pavel Smeyan, Moscow Regional Philharmonic - performers with whom the newly-minted musicians of the group Dune Rybin and Katin performed.
- Leonid Petrenko -
Dune
biographydate added: 24.03.2008
The group "Dune" was created in 1987 and produced at first the melodies of the "hard rock" direction that were popular at that time. But she did not find success in this field, despite the fact that it included people who later became popular as rockers. These are guitarist Dmitry Chetvergov, drummer Andrey Shatunovsky and soloist Andrey Rublev. Dune also included Viktor Rybin and Sergei Katin. Victor and Sergey promptly figured out that they would not see glory in hard rock, and by 1988 the style of music was completely changed.
Rybin and Katin have already paid attention to a not so complicated, but no less driving style. They became the main ones in the team, and the rest of the line-up was constantly changing.
The group "Dune" managed to penetrate the Moscow Regional Philharmonic. On her behalf, "Dune" went on tour for 12 months, Alexander Serov and Pavel Smeyan were listed as the same "amateur" artists.
On tour, the song "Country Limonia" arose, which became insanely popular.
1989 On January 6, the well-known program "Musical Elevator" showed a video clip with "Country Limonia" all over the country. And the following year, "Dune" did not perform anything else - everyone wanted to hear only "Limonia".
And only in December the compositions "Firm" and "Give-give!" were released.
For all three songs, the group made a video.
May 1990 "Dune" appears on the "Soundtrack", the audience - the whole Palace of Sports "Olympic". The performance turned out to be very successful.
But at the same time, the group had a showdown with television, because the censorship called the group "too uncomplexed."
And after the new video "Drink, Vanya, don't get sick!" was shown on TV, many people responsible for the show were kicked out of the 2x2 channel. But what can you do if the people demand and the people love?
And now, after a very short amount of time, "Country Limonia" participates in the "Song of the Year". There is also an eight-track album.
1991 The disc "Country of Limonia" is already being released in better quality and four more compositions are added.
After some time, the album "Dolgoprudny Behind Us" appears, it was there that the song "Greetings from the Big Badun" was.
Everything is going well, when suddenly Sergey Katin leaves the group, who decides to start a family and emigrate to France in order to realize himself as a musician there.
"Dune" travels a lot on tour", and then the first, without the participation of Katina, the disc "Dune, Dyunochka, Dyuna, hello from the big Badun" comes out. It includes already well-known songs.
1993 - it was felt that the moment had come to demonstrate to everyone that even without the participation of Katin, he could do something himself. Therefore, in less than a month, he literally writes 10 compositions, including "Zhenka", "Machine Gun", "Limpompo". And the disk was called - "Vitek".
1994 - these are two albums: "But we don't care" and "Golden Childhood". The first included, for example, such songs as "Borka-womanizer" and "Dream" (better known as "sea of beer"). And the second consisted of rehashings of all the well-known children's songs written by Vladimir Shainsky, Yuri Entin and other authors.
1995 The return of Sergei Katin to the group due to failures in France. Together, friends are working on the disc "In the Big City". From the disk, the compositions "Communal Apartment", "Lanterns", "About Vasya" became famous.
1996 - work on the disc "Sewed a new suit", which was released in January 1997.
By March, Rybin presented to the public a solo album "Let's Talk About Love, Mademoiselle", all the songs for him were written by Katin.
From the very first appearance on the stage, the Dune group immediately fell in love with the audience. They were “Own”, and the humorous texts of comic songs instantly diverged into quotes and became “folk”. Popularity came to them in 1987, but for now a little history. Viktor Rybin - the permanent leader and founder of the group - comes from the Moscow region. His mother sang in the Pyatnitsky choir, and his father worked at a factory.
“I was born where it came in handy - in Dolgoprudny. A banal story - they sent me to a music school, the teachers called it not successful. I broke my arm and forgot about the music. Went to sambo.
Music resurfaced in the life of Viktor Rybin when he was 12 years old. Yard boys told him about the banned Voice of America radio and about what kind of music they listen to abroad.
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“A concert from Washington .. I even remembered their address for the rest of my life .. I was amazed ... this is 74 years old ... Queen, Deep Pearl, hard rock ... we decided .... we need to create our own group ... we had a column ... we came up with our own songs ... ".
Amateur creativity of young artists lasted a year and a half, until Victor's friend, Sergei Katin, transferred to school. At the age of 14, he was considered a good musician, he played the button accordion superbly. The young man easily joined the team, and soon the first name for the group was invented.
"BY LITTLE MO" ... What did it mean there? No one knew. We opened an English textbook and sang lines from there, because we didn’t know how to invent words. But we became popular in a narrow geographic point ... Dolgoproudny. They even came to dance with us.”
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Since the guys were minors, and they were given musical instruments right on the venues, they did not receive money for their performances. Then it was a pleasure to play in discos. But they already understood that they needed to move in the chosen direction forward: to earn money and buy good equipment. But as soon as it hit 16 and the first earnings were received, the artists bought their first instrument.
“We bought Katya a bass for 450 rubles .... And they worked at weddings ... then life scattered ... everyone went somewhere ... it was '79.
Sergey Katin continued his musical career, first working in the Gosteleradio orchestra, and then in the popular Arsenal group, and Viktor Rybin continued to work as a submariner in Kamchatka. However, he did not forget about music. Probably, we would never have known about the Dune group if it were not for a chance meeting of old school comrades.
“It was 1985 ... I say, Seryoga, we need to make our own group.”
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The format of "Hard Rock" did not bring great popularity to the team, especially since in those years such luminaries of heavy music as the groups "Aria", "Rondo", "Black Coffee" had been playing on the stage for a long time. But to remain "no destiny" was not in the plans of the artists, so the creative council developed a new stage and musical concept for the team.
“Times had already changed in 1987… perhydrol on the hair, tight pants and jackets with broad shoulders… we need to change the material… Katin did a good job – he sat down and wrote Land of Limonia.
Few people know, but for the first time this song was performed by Larisa Dolina, who was then only gaining popularity.
“About the Valley ... Seryozha slipped this song to her and she performed it at the Musical Ring.” The song didn't get any resonance… the tuning didn't suit her. Seryozha did this on the sly... I turn on the TV - and I see... I call him - he doesn't answer...'
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The artists faced an important task - to declare themselves as a new team, having at least the right to exist. For this, a name, stage image and repertoire were needed. The song "Limonia", performed by the group "Dune" in 1989, immediately "shot". This is not surprising: it very accurately reflected the mood of the society of the late 80s, and the unusual and somewhere puffy image of the performers themselves caused a smile.
“What happened, they dressed in that.”
“About Limonia ... then our country was this country ... all the musicians then wrote songs “between the lines”. Of course, we sang about foreign miracles, how to make money ... then it became ... funny ... We were not funny, but prickly ... Russian cacti. We have remained so, any artist is made by the public.
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“The story of the song is ordinary… it reflected the state… scoop… Seryozha Katin, with whom we created the group, says, let's be dissidents. I told him - let's better you music, and I will play it frivolously .... clowns are forgiven for everything.
Throughout the following year, "Dune" traveled all over the country with this popular hit. Of course, they also had other songs that were appreciated by the fans. But here's the paradox - with the obvious popular popularity, the artists did not receive support either on TV or on the radio. Censors took up arms against "too uncomplexed musicians".
“They almost didn’t play on the radio ... TV is needed. We don’t go to “Morning Mail” ... you won’t go there ... and here is the 2 * 2 channel ... they paid for a month. And then they didn’t take money from us ... ”
Colleagues in the musical department Anzhelika Agurbash, soloists of the Na-na group, shared their memories of the bright project of those years.
"Once they showed up, it was a lot of fun."
“As soon as Lemonia came out, everyone started dancing just like them ...”.
But officials could not help but respond to the mass popularity of Dune, and soon Land of Limonia was included in the Song of the Year program, and the state-owned company Melodiya released a vinyl record of the group, also called Land of Limonia. Soon the album "Behind us Dolgoprudny" will be released. Until 1996, the musicians released new albums, and their concerts were sold out all over the country. During this time, the team left, married and went to conquer the concert venues in France, one of the founders of the group - Sergey Katin. Then, under the leadership of Victor, a new CD "Dune, Dyunochka, Dyuna, hello from the big Badun" was released, and then such hits as "Zhenka", "Machine Gun", "Vitek", "Dream" and the famous "Borka-womanizer". By the way. , it is the “womanizer” that Viktor Rybin considers the best love song in the repertoire of his group.
“Borka-womanizer” is a song about love .. there are different ones ... both to have fun and to bounce a tear ... I call it the best love song.
Simultaneously with the growing popularity, Victor met his other half - Natalya Senchukova, who worked as a dancer in the 90s. It was a classic office romance that grew into a romantic feeling.
The secret of the success of the group "Dune", according to Viktor Rybin, lies in the work itself, which for his team is the meaning of life.
"In the love of listeners and spectators, musicians, nothing depends on you."
Renat Sharibzhanov
Albert Romanov
Valery Zhukov
Alexander Maleshevsky
Andrey Shatunovsky
Andrey Rublev
Mikhail Aleshchenok
Leonid Petrenko
Sergey Kadnikov
Mikhail Kadnikov
Ruslan Isaev
Mikhail Yudin
Dune- Soviet and Russian musical group, formed in 1987.
Story
The band was formed in 1987 by bass guitarist Sergei Katin and guitarist Dmitry Chetvergov. The group also included drummer Andrey Shatunovsky and vocalist Andrey Rublev. Viktor Rybin, a longtime friend of Sergei Katin, became the director of the group. As Dmitry Chetvergov recalls, “We had a normal team that worked normally<…>in the style, roughly speaking, of the Araks group. That is, we played such art rock and worked at the Moscow Regional Philharmonic.
In 1988, Dmitry Chetvergov, Andrey Shatunovsky and Andrey Rublev left the group. The backbone of the group was Viktor Rybin, who served as vocalist and also played drums, and Katin also sang and played bass. Being musicians of the Moscow Regional Philharmonic, they went on tour. Frequently changing session musicians performed with them. During these tours, Sergey Katin wrote the hit "Country Limonia", which marked the new style of the group, which played an important role in the formation of the team's success. According to Dmitry Chetvergov: “The guys who worked with us as technicians went on stage with guitars to the soundtrack made by Sergey Katin (“Country of Limonia”). They went out and put on a show. It was just 1987-1988 - the heyday of "plywood"". According to Viktor Rybin: “About Limonia ... then our country was“ this country ”... all the musicians then wrote songs“ between the lines ”. Of course, we sang about foreign miracles, how to make money ... then it became ... funny ... We were not funny, but prickly ... Russian cacti. We have remained so, any artist is made by the public.
On January 6, 1989, the popular program "Musical Elevator" showed a staged concert filming with the "Country of Limonia" throughout the USSR. For almost a year, "Dune" did not sing anything but this hit. In December, the songs "Firm" and "Give-give" appeared.
In May 1990, Dune performed at the Soundtrack Festival in front of a full hall of the Olimpiysky Sports Palace.
Later, "Country Limonia" was taken into the program "Song of the Year", and the state company "Melody" released the forty-five "Country Limonia" of 8 songs. In 1991, 4 songs were added to the disc (including "Greetings from the big hangover") and reissued on a regular long-playing phonograph record.
A few months later, the album "Behind Us - Dolgoprudny" was released with the songs "Horoscope", "Korefana" and the lyric "Hi, baby".
In 1992, Sergey Katin left the group, who got married and left for France. Rybin spent the next year in endless concerts and released his first CD "Dune, Dyunochka, Dyuna, hello from a big hangover!", Consisting of the old repertoire.
In 1993, the album "Vityok" appeared, in which new songs appeared - "Zhenya", "Machine Gun" (later - "Partisan-Oktyabryatskaya") and "Lim-pom-po". In 1994, two more albums appeared - “But we don’t care!” with the songs “Ezhovaya-lazhovaya”, “Borka-womanizer” and “Dream” (another name is “Sea of Beer”) and “Remember the Golden Childhood” with children's songs by Vladimir Shainsky, Yuri Entin and others.
In 1995, Sergei Katin returned to his homeland and resumed cooperation with the group, but only as a songwriter. This is how the album “In the Big City” appeared, which contained the hits “Communal Apartment”, “Lanterns” and “About Vasya”.
In 1996, the Dune group participated in the election campaign in favor of the candidate Boris Yeltsin. In the same year, the group released the album “I sewed a brand new suit”, which the Soyuz studio published in January 1997. On March 8, 1997, Viktor Rybin released his debut album Let's Talk About Love, Mademoiselle.
In 1998, the album "Disco Dancer" was released with the lyrical hit "Kite", which became another of the group's calling cards.
In 1999, the album "Karaganda" was released with hits "Bottle", "Karaganda" and "We are a worthy link". In the same year, a cycle of duets by Viktor Rybin and Natalia Senchukova was launched. Their main joint hit is "My Dear Nerd" (2004).
After 2004, the creative activity of "Dune" is reduced. The reason for this is that Viktor Rybin went into the shipping business. Since 2008, the musicians have continued to release new albums. First "The Law of Nature", then in 2010 - "Yakut Bananas". Music critics point out that the band never got out of their creative block.
In 2012, the Dune group began collecting material for a new album. In particular, the song "Light of the Star" was recorded. In 2013, the group began cooperation with the Ukrainian singer-songwriter Slava Blagov, recording his song "Nurse" (She is in a white dressing gown to her knees ...) and "The Road Home".
Song Similarities
Some note the similarity of the songs "Country Limonia" and "Greetings from the Big Hangover" with the compositions "In The Army Now" by Boland & Boland and "Acapulco" by Ricchi e Poveri, respectively. The song "Borka the Womanizer", on the one hand, is similar to the song "Melancholia" by Sofia Rotaru, on the other hand, was used by Valery Syutkin to create the song "7000 above the ground".
Albums
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Current line-up
- Viktor Rybin - vocals, percussion (1987 - present)
- Mikhail Dulsky - guitar, backing vocals (1992 - present)
- Igor Plyaskin - guitar (2002 - present)
- Oleg Kolmykov - bass guitar (2012-present)
- Andrey "Tolstoy" Apukhtin - keyboards (1991 - present)
- Roman Makhov - drums (2011 - present)
Former members
Timeline
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- Vladimir Polupanov. . AIF No. 33. "Arguments and Facts" (August 15, 2012). Retrieved August 13, 2012. .
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- Fandeev, Nikolay(Russian). fandeeff.narod.ru. Retrieved May 20, 2013. .
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- If it is true that Monsieur Denisov proposed to you, then tell him that he is a fool, that's all.“No, he’s not a fool,” Natasha said offendedly and seriously.
- Well, what do you want? You are all in love these days. Well, in love, so marry him! said the Countess, laughing angrily. - With God blessing!
“No, mother, I am not in love with him, I must not be in love with him.
“Well, just tell him that.
- Mom, are you angry? Don't be angry, my dear, what am I to blame for?
“No, what is it, my friend? If you want, I'll go and tell him, - said the countess, smiling.
- No, I myself, just teach. Everything is easy for you,” she added, answering her smile. “And if you saw how he told me this!” After all, I know that he did not want to say this, but he accidentally said it.
- Well, you still have to refuse.
- No, you don't have to. I feel so sorry for him! He is so cute.
Well, take the offer. And then it’s time to get married, ”the mother said angrily and mockingly.
“No, Mom, I feel so sorry for him. I don't know how I will say.
“Yes, you don’t have anything to say, I’ll say it myself,” said the countess, indignant at the fact that they dared to look at this little Natasha as a big one.
“No, no way, I’m on my own, and you listen at the door,” and Natasha ran through the living room into the hall, where Denisov was sitting on the same chair, at the clavichord, covering his face with his hands. He jumped up at the sound of her light footsteps.
- Natalie, - he said, approaching her with quick steps, - decide my fate. She is in your hands!
"Vasily Dmitritch, I'm so sorry for you!... No, but you're so nice... but don't... it's... but I'll always love you like that."
Denisov bent over her hand, and she heard strange sounds, incomprehensible to her. She kissed him on his black, matted, curly head. At that moment, the hasty noise of the countess's dress was heard. She approached them.
“Vasily Dmitritch, I thank you for the honor,” said the countess in an embarrassed voice, but which seemed strict to Denisov, “but my daughter is so young, and I thought that you, as a friend of my son, would first turn to me. In that case, you would not put me in the need for a refusal.
“Mr. Athena,” Denisov said with downcast eyes and a guilty look, he wanted to say something else and stumbled.
Natasha could not calmly see him so miserable. She began to sob loudly.
“Mr. Athena, I am guilty before you,” Denisov continued in a broken voice, “but know that I idolize your daughter and your entire family so much that I will give two lives ...” He looked at the countess and, noticing her stern face ... “Well, goodbye, Mrs. Athena,” he said, kissed her hand and, without looking at Natasha, left the room with quick, decisive steps.
The next day, Rostov saw off Denisov, who did not want to stay in Moscow for another day. Denisov was seen off at the gypsies by all his Moscow friends, and he did not remember how he was put into the sledge and how the first three stations were taken.
After Denisov's departure, Rostov, waiting for the money that the old count could not suddenly collect, spent another two weeks in Moscow, without leaving home, and mainly in the young ladies' room.
Sonya was more tender and devoted to him than before. She seemed to want to show him that his loss was a feat for which she now loves him all the more; but Nicholas now considered himself unworthy of her.
He filled the girls' albums with poems and notes, and without saying goodbye to any of his acquaintances, finally sending all 43 thousand and receiving Dolokhov's receipt, he left at the end of November to catch up with the regiment, which was already in Poland.
After his explanation with his wife, Pierre went to Petersburg. There were no horses at the station in Torzhok, or the caretaker did not want them. Pierre had to wait. Without undressing, he lay down on a leather sofa in front of a round table, put his big feet in warm boots on this table and thought.
- Will you order the suitcases to be brought in? Make a bed, would you like some tea? the valet asked.
Pierre did not answer, because he did not hear or see anything. He had been thinking at the last station and still kept thinking about the same thing - about such an important thing that he did not pay any attention to what was going on around him. He was not only not interested in the fact that he would arrive later or earlier in Petersburg, or whether he would or would not have a place to rest at this station, but all the same, in comparison with the thoughts that occupied him now, whether he would stay for a few hours or a lifetime at that station.
The caretaker, caretaker, valet, a woman with Torzhkov sewing came into the room, offering their services. Pierre, without changing his position of his raised legs, looked at them through his glasses, and did not understand what they might need and how they could all live without resolving the issues that occupied him. And he was occupied with the same questions from the very day he returned from Sokolniki after the duel and spent the first, painful, sleepless night; only now, in the solitude of the journey, they took possession of it with particular force. Whatever he began to think about, he returned to the same questions that he could not solve, and could not stop asking himself. It was as if the main screw on which his whole life rested was curled up in his head. The screw did not go further in, did not go out, but spun, without grabbing anything, all on the same groove, and it was impossible to stop turning it.
The superintendent entered and humbly began to ask his excellency to wait only two hours, after which he would give courier for his excellency (what will be, will be). The caretaker obviously lied and only wanted to get extra money from the traveler. “Was it bad or good?” Pierre asked himself. “It’s good for me, it’s bad for another passing by, but it’s inevitable for him, because he has nothing to eat: he said that an officer beat him up for this. And the officer nailed him because he had to go sooner. And I shot at Dolokhov because I considered myself insulted, and Louis XVI was executed because he was considered a criminal, and a year later those who executed him were killed, also for something. What's wrong? What well? What should you love, what should you hate? Why live, and what am I? What is life, what is death? What power governs everything?” he asked himself. And there was no answer to any of these questions, except for one, not a logical answer, not at all to these questions. This answer was: “If you die, everything will end. You will die and you will know everything, or you will stop asking.” But it was also scary to die.
The Torzhkovskaya tradeswoman offered her goods in a shrill voice, and especially goat shoes. “I have hundreds of rubles, which I have nowhere to put, and she stands in a torn fur coat and looks timidly at me,” thought Pierre. And why do we need this money? Precisely for one hair, this money can add to her happiness, peace of mind? Can anything in the world make her and me less subject to evil and death? Death, which will end everything and which must come today or tomorrow - all the same in a moment, in comparison with eternity. And he again pressed the screw, which was not grasping anything, and the screw was still spinning in the same place.
His servant handed him a book of the novel, cut in half, in letters m me Suza. [Madame Susa.] He began to read about the suffering and virtuous struggle of some Amelie de Mansfeld. [to Amalia Mansfeld.] And why did she fight against her seducer, he thought, when she loved him? God could not put into her soul aspirations contrary to His will. My ex-wife didn't fight and maybe she was right. Nothing has been found, Pierre told himself again, nothing has been invented. We can only know that we know nothing. And this is the highest degree of human wisdom.”
Everything in him and around him seemed to him confused, meaningless and disgusting. But in this very disgust for everything around him, Pierre found a kind of annoying pleasure.
“I dare to ask Your Excellency to make room for a little one, here for them,” said the caretaker, entering the room and leading another, stopped for lack of horses, passing by. The passer-by was a squat, broad-boned, yellow, wrinkled old man with overhanging gray eyebrows over shining, indefinite grayish eyes.
Pierre took his feet off the table, got up and lay down on the bed prepared for him, occasionally glancing at the newcomer, who, with a gloomy tired look, without looking at Pierre, was heavily undressing with the help of a servant. Left in a shabby, covered sheepskin coat and felted boots on thin, bony legs, the traveler sat down on the sofa, leaning his very large and wide at the temples, short-cropped head against the back and looked at Bezukhy. The strict, intelligent and penetrating expression of this look struck Pierre. He wanted to speak to the traveler, but when he was about to turn to him with a question about the road, the traveler had already closed his eyes and folded his wrinkled old hands, on the finger of one of which was a large cast-iron ring with the image of Adam's head, sat motionless, or resting, or about something thoughtfully and calmly thinking, as it seemed to Pierre. The passerby's servant was all covered with wrinkles, also a yellow old man, without a mustache and beard, which apparently had not been shaved off, and had never grown with him. The agile old servant was dismantling the cellar, preparing a tea table, and brought a boiling samovar. When everything was ready, the traveler opened his eyes, moved closer to the table and poured himself one glass of tea, poured another for the beardless old man and served it to him. Pierre began to feel anxiety and the need, and even the inevitability of entering into a conversation with this traveler.
The servant brought back his empty, overturned glass with a half-bitten piece of sugar and asked if he needed anything.
- Nothing. Give me the book, said the passerby. The servant handed over a book, which seemed to Pierre spiritual, and the traveler deepened in reading. Pierre looked at him. Suddenly the passer-by put down the book, laid it down, closed it, and, again closing his eyes and leaning on his back, sat down in his former position. Pierre looked at him and did not have time to turn away, when the old man opened his eyes and fixed his firm and stern gaze straight into Pierre's face.
Pierre felt embarrassed and wanted to deviate from this look, but the brilliant, aged eyes irresistibly attracted him to him.
“I have the pleasure of talking to Count Bezukhy, if I am not mistaken,” said the passerby slowly and loudly. Pierre silently, questioningly looked through his glasses at his interlocutor.
“I heard about you,” continued the traveler, “and about the misfortune that befell you, my lord. - He seemed to emphasize the last word, as if he said: “yes, misfortune, whatever you call it, I know that what happened to you in Moscow was a misfortune.” “I am very sorry about that, my lord.
Pierre blushed and, hastily lowering his legs from the bed, bent down to the old man, smiling unnaturally and timidly.
“I did not mention this to you out of curiosity, my lord, but for more important reasons. He paused, without letting Pierre out of his sight, and moved on the sofa, inviting Pierre to sit down beside him with this gesture. It was unpleasant for Pierre to enter into a conversation with this old man, but, involuntarily submitting to him, he came up and sat down beside him.
“You are unhappy, my lord,” he continued. You are young, I am old. I would like to help you to the best of my ability.
“Oh, yes,” Pierre said with an unnatural smile. - I am very grateful to you ... Where do you want to pass from? - The face of the traveler was not affectionate, even cold and stern, but despite the fact, both the speech and the face of the new acquaintance had an irresistibly attractive effect on Pierre.
“But if for some reason you find it unpleasant to talk to me,” said the old man, “then you say so, my lord. And he suddenly smiled unexpectedly, a fatherly gentle smile.
“Oh no, not at all, on the contrary, I am very glad to meet you,” said Pierre, and, looking once more at the hands of a new acquaintance, he examined the ring closer. He saw Adam's head on it, the sign of Freemasonry.
“Let me ask,” he said. - Are you a Mason?
- Yes, I belong to the brotherhood of free masons, said the traveler, looking deeper and deeper into Pierre's eyes. - And on my own behalf and on their behalf, I extend my brotherly hand to you.
“I’m afraid,” said Pierre, smiling and hesitating between the confidence inspired in him by the personality of a Mason, and the habit of mocking the beliefs of Masons, “I’m afraid that I’m very far from understanding how to say this, I’m afraid that my way of thinking about everything of the universe is so opposite to yours that we do not understand each other.
“I know your way of thinking,” said the Mason, “and that way of thinking of which you speak, and which seems to you the product of your mental labor, is the way of thinking of most people, is the monotonous fruit of pride, laziness and ignorance. Excuse me, my lord, if I did not know him, I would not speak to you. Your way of thinking is a sad delusion.
“Just as I can assume that you are in error,” said Pierre, smiling weakly.
“I will never dare to say that I know the truth,” said the freemason, more and more striking Pierre with his certainty and firmness of speech. - No one alone can reach the truth; only stone after stone, with the participation of all, millions of generations, from the forefather Adam to our time, that temple is being erected, which should be a worthy dwelling of the Great God, - said the freemason and closed his eyes.
“I must tell you, I don’t believe, I don’t ... believe in God,” Pierre said with regret and effort, feeling the need to tell the whole truth.
The Mason carefully looked at Pierre and smiled, as a rich man who held millions in his hands would smile at a poor man who would tell him that he, the poor man, did not have five rubles that could make him happy.
“Yes, you do not know Him, my lord,” said the Mason. “You cannot know Him. You don't know Him, that's why you're unhappy.
“Yes, yes, I am unhappy,” Pierre confirmed; - but what am I to do?
“You do not know Him, my lord, and that is why you are very unhappy. You do not know Him, but He is here, He is in me. He is in my words, He is in you, and even in those blasphemous speeches that you have spoken just now! said the Mason in a stern, trembling voice.
He paused and sighed, apparently trying to calm himself.
“If He weren’t there,” he said quietly, “we wouldn’t be talking about Him, my lord. What, who were we talking about? Who did you deny? he suddenly said with enthusiastic severity and authority in his voice. - Who invented it, if it does not exist? Why did the assumption arise in you that there is such an incomprehensible being? Why did you and the whole world assume the existence of such an incomprehensible being, an omnipotent being, eternal and infinite in all its properties?… – He stopped and was silent for a long time.
Pierre could not and did not want to break this silence.
“He exists, but it is difficult to understand Him,” the freemason spoke again, looking not at Pierre’s face, but in front of him, with his old hands, which, from inner excitement, could not remain calm, sorting through the pages of the book. “If it were a person whose existence you would doubt, I would bring this person to you, take him by the hand and show you. But how can I, an insignificant mortal, show all omnipotence, all eternity, all His goodness to the one who is blind, or to the one who closes his eyes so as not to see, not to understand Him, and not to see, and not to understand all his abomination and depravity? He paused. - Who are you? What you? You dream of yourself that you are a wise man, because you could utter these blasphemous words, - he said with a gloomy and contemptuous smile, - and you are more stupid and madder than a small child who, playing with parts of an artfully made watch, would dare to say that , because he does not understand the purpose of these hours, he does not believe in the master who made them. It is difficult to know Him... We have been working for this knowledge for centuries, from the forefather Adam to the present day, and we are infinitely far from achieving our goal; but in our misunderstanding of Him, we see only our weakness and His greatness ... - Pierre, with a sinking heart, looking with shining eyes into the face of the freemason, listened to him, did not interrupt, did not ask him, but with all his heart believed what this stranger told him. Did he believe the reasonable arguments that were in the Mason's speech, or did he believe, as children believe, the intonation, conviction and cordiality that were in the Mason's speech, the trembling of the voice, which sometimes almost interrupted the Mason, or these brilliant, senile eyes, grown old on that the same conviction, or that calmness, firmness and knowledge of one's purpose, which shone from the whole being of the Mason, and which struck him especially strongly in comparison with their omission and hopelessness; - but with all his heart he wanted to believe, and believed, and experienced a joyful feeling of calm, renewal and return to life.
“He is not comprehended by the mind, but is comprehended by life,” said the freemason.
“I don’t understand,” said Pierre, fearfully feeling doubt rising in himself. He was afraid of the vagueness and weakness of the arguments of his interlocutor, he was afraid of not believing him. “I do not understand,” he said, “how the human mind cannot comprehend the knowledge you are talking about.
The Mason smiled his meek, paternal smile.
“The highest wisdom and truth is, as it were, the purest moisture that we want to absorb into ourselves,” he said. – Can I take this pure moisture into an unclean vessel and judge its purity? Only by inner purification of myself can I bring the perceived moisture to a certain purity.
– Yes, yes, it is! Pierre said happily.
– Higher wisdom is not based on reason alone, not on those secular sciences of physics, history, chemistry, etc., into which mental knowledge breaks down. There is only one supreme wisdom. The highest wisdom has one science - the science of everything, the science that explains the entire universe and the place of man in it. In order to accommodate this science, it is necessary to purify and renew your inner man, and therefore, before you know, you need to believe and improve. And to achieve these goals, the light of God, called conscience, is embedded in our soul.
