Lyudmila Petrushevskaya: "If You're Pregnant, How Can You Not Give Birth?" // "Tell Gordeeva"

In the new episode of #TellGordeeva, prominent Russian writer and playwright Lyudmila Petrushevskaya talks about how she wrote in the bathroom, stood in a queue of the dead, and laughed at Putin's jokes. She also gives an assessment of the works of Pushkin, Gogol, Chekhov, and Tolstoy, admits that she has not read Pelevin and Sorokin, and explains why nothing can help a woman in Russia become happy.
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Many thanks to photographers Valery Plotnikov and Alexander Pochukaev, as well as Fedor Pavlov-Andreevich for providing photos for the episode. We are grateful for the photos from the Academic Small Drama Theatre - Theatre of Europe and the "Sovremennik" theatre.
For inquiries regarding the purchase of Lyudmila Petrushevskaya's works in favor of the "Rostok" foundation, please contact Alexander Pochukaev [phone]
Content:
00:00 Tolstoy is a graphomaniac
03:12 How to prepare for prison
04:53 Gogol's daughter
06:21 How Petrushevskaya begged for alms
07:31 Mother
09:16 From "Metropol" to the garbage can
13:25 Why her mother gave Petrushevskaya to an orphanage
15:51 "Children take everything for granted"
17:23 "Salut"
18:56 Absolute happiness
20:18 "If you're pregnant, how can you not give birth?"
21:54 A queue of the dead and a letter to Gorbachev
24:12 On the role of the KGB in Petrushevskaya's life
27:00 "I worked in the bathroom"
28:14 Tap dance!
33:19 Five best plays based on Petrushevskaya's plays
36:11 How Oleg Efremov got "The Moscow Choir"
39:03 The secret of a good play
40:08 A fairy tale about Instagram
42:34 "Bésame mucho"
44:16 A joke from Putin
45:40 An Issey Miyake dress for $100
48:16 Meeting of two emperors
49:57 "When a person rarely shows themselves, it means something"
51:30 "Les Champs-Élysées"
52:04 "I didn't conquer Yaroslavl at all"
53:51 About "Rostok" and Alexei Mikhaylyuk
59:32 How Petrushevskaya paid off someone else's debt
1:04:22 Putin, Sechin, Minister Lyubimova, and Buzova: who does Petrushevskaya draw?
1:07:27 "There is no death. There is art"
1:08:34 Blitz
1:09:04 "Nothing can save a Russian woman"
1:11:29 "You know, Natasha, there is no time"