Unexpectedly, Nadya and I found ourselves at a concert commemorating Vizbor, featuring artists who instantly took us back to our student years, to hiking trips and evening gatherings with a guitar. Onstage was also our wonderful friend — actor and founder of an acting school, Artem Lyskov, with whom it’s always a pleasure to meet and chat. Their next tour stops are Philadelphia, then Boston and Brooklyn.
That evening, the stage welcomed Veniamin Smekhov, Yuliy Kim, Alexey Ivaschenko (Ivasi) with his daughter, actress Maria Ivaschenko, Timur Shaov, Dmitry Bogdanov, Galina Khomchik with her son Alexey, and Artem Lyskov.
It’s amazing how many songs, forgotten since our student days, seemed firmly lodged in memory. As soon as the guitar played, the words emerged effortlessly, one after another, as if untouched by the decades.
Hi, I'm Rauf Aliev. 