Biography in Litvin

I do not want my children to live in the USSR to be born on March 24 in Moscow, then the USSR graduated from the Moscow Financial Institute in the first half of X worked as an accountant in commercial firms: “The shadow of the Victory”, “Yellow Devil”, “Cross it” and other Khodorkovsky in - GG. In exile in the Czech Republic, he is the organizer of the Czech-Russian dialogue in the framework of the copyright initiatives: the cultural and human rights festival Kulturus, the Vysotsky-Fest Music and Poetry Festival, the school of cultural youth and others.

Litvin initiated a large number of street actions, marches of the protest, reacted to almost all crimes of the Russian Federation in the field Mira: actions against violation of the Constitution, arrests of peaceful protesters, falsification of elections, corruption of power, war, unleashed in Ukraine, murders of journalists and opposition politicians. Today, thousands of Russian -speaking residents of the Czech Republic - Russians, Belarusians, Ukrainians know him, who were able to demonstrate their solidarity with the opposition on the streets of Prague and thereby changed the attitude of the Chekhs to the diasporas of emigrants.

Among the speakers on his actions were famous journalists, political scientists, public figures, and students. Many remembered him as a “man in a hat” - this is his recognizable image. In the studio, he talks about childhood in the center of Moscow, nihilism of the late USSR, his scandalous performances, frantic earnings on advertising and a transition to more honest political art.

An interesting story was about the difficulties of moving to Prague that interlocutors usually lower. Parents are “simple Soviet engineers”, a cloth, a stamp to denote an ideologically positive image of a citizen of the USSR. Mom, Olga Fedorovna Litvina, worked for almost all her life in the editor -in -chief of the now prestigious Rosneft: “Brown, a department for 20 people, sitting with a bunch of papers, my mother worked for 80, then rubles a month.” Dad, Viktor Vasilievich Petin, from the Ryazan village, an engineer on the "mailboxes" the conditional name of secret defense enterprises, built bridges in the suburbs, which parents showed on the way to the country.

Dad was fond of samizdat, brought home the notes of V. Vysotsky, talked about dissidents, the occupation of Czechoslovakia, was interested in military history - the role of Stalin, Vlasov in victory in World War II - which had a great influence on Anton. Momin inherited his surname as the last man from a rather large Litvin family - his mother had two sisters and brother.

Three generations lived together in a communal apartment. One room was occupied by grandmother Tamara Nikolaevna Litvina Ur. Petrov, her father Nikolai Petrov, before the revolution, owned a cardboard factory in Sokolniki. Now they lived modestly and boring, which was why the relationship was complicated. Papa, the provincial, the sisters did not like, at one time he drank, and he and his mother divorced, but then got married again.

The symbol of childhood was a wolf from the cult cartoon "Well, wait." The film for the cartoon was stored at the Petrovs in the country, and there Anton redrawed the hare and wolf on the diary and notebooks. Mom bought a large plush wolf - in a pink shirt and black claw pants. The communal apartment was in the very center of Moscow, and the place, according to Anton, laid out an imprint.

All together celebrated the New Year and birthdays, on the table according to the Soviet tradition were jelly and pickles. Anton allocated his mother’s family sister-artist and was friends with a cousin-her son. The chapel of boys, football, the Rock band "Yershalaim" accidentally listened and was enrolled in a school with a musical bias-sang in the choral chapel of the boys.

Mom and grandmother took him through the whole city and took him out of school, the family had to save a lot and buy a piano in installments. In the 6th grade, he moved to a regular school close to the house and was left to himself: he played football in the yard, then created his musical group. The Spartak flag, for which he was sick, was done as follows: “We stole the red flags that were posted in the city on May 1 and November 7 and sewed a white diagonal strip.

They could take it to the police for this - my mother was afraid, but she sewed white stripes. ” He recalls that in M ​​was a hockey for Canadians, in the year - for the Americans. Canadians went out onto the ice without helmets, and their hair was to the shoulders, they chewed chewing gum - looked like hippies or rockers. It was a sip of freedom. " Nobody believed from his close circle to the Soviet Union, especially since he did not allow ideology into private life.

After lessons, the pioneer tie hid in his pocket, straightened his shirt collar over his jacket, put on his mother’s shoes on the platform, and instead of a portfolio he wore a bag from a gas mask-there were scandals at school because of this.

This was not dissidentism or active anti -Sovietism, but this was the form of life in the late Soviet Union. ” His rock band was called "Yershalaim." The reference was not so much to M. Bulgakov’s novel “The Master and Margarita” as to the half -forced Christianity.At the final exams, the teachers allowed the desired ticket in advance - for the sake of good performance indicators: “It was all the same, the future for us was painted forward for decades - and so it is clear who would become an engineer and who would collect bottles.

I did not possess any special abilities, my parents were also not up to me. ” He thundered in the army because of the performance of the “sermon to merchants” entered the financial institution, although the profession of an financial accountant at that time was unclaimed, prestigious, non-dummy and low-paid, but it was easy to act, and study allowed the army to avoid.

After the 2nd year, in the year, Anton, along with a cousin, staged a performance “Protecting to merchants” in the central market: his brother, wrapped in a white sheet, crawled out onto the counter. They were arrested. The police sent a protocol to the institute. The ultimatum followed to go to serve in the army. There was a lot of free time, and he read Russian religious philosophers - then the first reprint publications of previously prohibited books began to appear, created a musical group, and went home in dismissal.

The accountant during the years of perestroika after the army returned to perestroika Moscow. He accepted Orthodox baptism-in a small village church, whose parishioners were mother-in-art sister and cousin. He recovered at the institute, met his future wife Svetlana Zagorskaya, the elder of the new group. The center of Moscow ceased to be a communal ghetto - there were dealers who settled all the residents of their house in separate apartments.

In the year, having graduated from the institute, he got a job as a chief accountant at the Father's Friends company. But the former military worked there, they, like Soviet people, are used to that everything is impossible. It was very uncomfortable. " The computer took home for the weekend - played the games "Prince of Persia", "Billiard". Then he was an accountant in the Soviet-Singapursk joint venture: an office on the Patriarchal ponds, traded everything: from computers to panties.

When the next balance did not agree, he was frightened and left. ” During the GKChP, he was in the country of relatives near Tula and on the morning of August 21, woke up from the sound of tanks going to Moscow. Those who grew up under the Soviet Union have nothing to do with democratic Russia and do not crave any European values. Democratic discourse seemed fake to me.

I believed that people who talk about it are silent that these ideas are not close to the people. ” Artists - this super -man decided to part with the profession of an accountant: "The world in E was open, and one could enter any area." For a long time he had the feeling that "artists are supernomers." Watching her mother’s sister-artist and her husband-artist, I saw that their life, unlike the life of his parents and fellow students at the institute, is diverse.

In the first half, X began to make hippenings for official holidays. The project “Shadow of Victory” in the courtyard of the central house of the artist is a metal silhouette of a man holding a baby in his arms. The Festival of the Ministry of Economic Development - March 8, Litvin noted by dressing all trees along the alley on the Tver Boulevard in the bras.

And on a passionate Friday, a poster of “cut it” blocked the movement on the street. Nikolskaya - it was a parody of a mixture of Soviet and Orthodox. These shares were lifting the television, Anton became a famous person. He created a group of performance artists Escape Program, participated in the Biennale Venice, and made personal exhibitions. Graduated from the school of advertising.

The wedding and wedding in the year Anton married. A white suit with red gloves and a bride’s red dress reflected their independent spirit. The rest is a tribute to traditions: dinner for relatives and guests in a restaurant. The wedding considers the wedding: “We were neophytes. I was then a fan of Father Alexander me, went to his lectures, attended the Church of the SVV. Cosmas and Damian, which was considered ecumenical.

We were crowned by Father Alexander Borisov, who then baptized our both sons Yegor Litvin of the year of birth, Savva Litvin of the year of birth. ” The golden era of advertising: they did not know anything and everyone got the second half of X describes as a gold era of advertising: “No one knew anything, while foreign super-brindles poured into the country.

What people went to for years and for decades, we received immediately in our hands. ” He was an art director, copywriter, creative director in English, Canadian, French companies. He participated in the advertising company of the Swedish vodka Absolut in Russian cities. I came up with a popular slogan for Pepsi "take everything from life." We studied on watching videos, talked with foreign directors.

The development was quick and powerful. I went to the Cannes advertising festival as training. ” Money grew instantly, the income was giant. In X Anton, as an financier, began to understand that in the economy a disorder: “People with our skills cannot get that kind of money - it means that a huge amount of shallow money is in the market: unaccounted black cash from the sale of weapons and drugs that provokes the growth of salaries.” Enhancing more and more in advertising, he was engaged in non -profit art.There was a success: his collages from the newspapers were acquired by the Swiss collector along with the works of the famous Dmitry Prigov.

The performance was made on the topic of advertising and art: he put two televisions opposite each other, one of the non -profit work was translated one at a time, and in the second - work in advertising. He recalls, however, that communication in such different areas exacerbated his observation, with rich people, contact was almost always unpleasant. Civil activism, political art to change advertising has come a moment of moral assessment of their participation in advertising.

It is quite difficult to realize that you are lying every day for 8-10 hours. ” This provoked a transition to the field of political art. In the middle of X in his works, he emphasized how the role of the state is changing: “I noticed that the state is divided. It has never been humane with us.