Farewell, Jumble!
Boris Grachevsky passed away. On December 21 last year, he became infected with coronavirus - he was hospitalized and then connected to a ventilator. And now - death.
Writing obituaries - short and long - has become commonplace recently. However, it is impossible to get used to this. Day after day, the best are passing away - those about whose death we can rightly say: an era has passed. And this will not be an exaggeration.
But really - think about it - eras change. Right now – and we are witnessing this. Something terrible and important is happening. What's next? It is impossible to predict - even the most insightful futurologists are powerless...
Having learned about Grachevsky’s death, I wrote on my social networks: “How so?!” And, really, how is that possible? We didn’t know each other well, but we were on the jury of various festivals together several times. What do I remember about Grachevsky? Sharp mind, bright word. And what’s important is that he literally personified concepts like “energy,” “drive,” and “love of life.” An amazingly positive person. It is impossible to imagine such people lying motionless. And forever.
He, of course, was monumentally connected with the TV magazine “Yeralash”. Grachevsky created it in 1974 together with playwright Alexander Khmelik (who, let me remind you, passed away in 2001). First - the director, then - the artistic director. To paraphrase a well-known expression, “we say “Jumble” - we mean Grachevsky; when we say Grachevsky, we mean “Yeralash”. Is it possible otherwise?
And this, perhaps, is the most important thing today – his colossal dedication to his work. Is something similar possible now? When pictures change instantly, when one thing flows into another, when people run from place to place. Grachevsky was constant - and Grachevsky himself became a constant. And this is desperately lacking in the world of victorious perverted postmodernism. He found his life's work and confidently held on to it, guiding him with a confident hand. The captain did not leave and did not let the sailor take over. Fortunately.
Nowadays they create a lot of “Hello, we are looking for talent” shows. Here's a "star factory", for example - or something else, but "Jumble" became a real, not artificial story about how boys and girls, children, teenagers and young men participated in something really big and exciting. Even if only a few of them later became artists, that’s not the point. The point is that they touched that same constant and communicated with a person who showed them an example of amazing perseverance and love of life.
Therefore, yes, the era. Exactly. With the death of Boris Grachevsky, the era of sincere and selfless devotion to his work passed away. And only to him.
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