There were no majestic mountains here. Oh those mountains! The memory of Pitirimov Sr. has preserved a lot of stories

Better than the mountains there can only be mountains,

Which I haven't been to yet...

Vladimir Vysotsky

There are many poems, songs and stories about mountains. Of course, everyone who has ever seen the mountains will remember their grandeur and beauty for the rest of their lives. Many try to conquer them, and many simply look and admire this magnificence and miracle of nature...

We present to you a small photo selection of some of the most famous, majestic and beautiful mountains of our planet...

Armenia

There are many mountains and extinct volcanoes. Most high mountain on the territory of modern Armenia is Aragats, whose height is 4094 meters.

Mount Ararat is an ancient extinct volcano, last eruption which was in 1840. It consists of two mountains that merge at their bases: Masis (Greater Ararat) and Sis (Little Ararat) and this is the highest point of the Armenian Highlands.

Ararat is famous not only for its natural beauty and greatness, and also thanks to biblical legends. It was on this mountain that Noah's ark ended up after the waters of the global flood subsided.

Altai Mountains

Altai is a land of incomparable mountains, magnificent in its beauty. The Altai Mountains are a system of the highest ridges in Siberia.

For more than a century, the harsh and beautiful peaks have been attracting scientists, travelers, tourists, photographers, artists, climbers, as well as pilgrims, since many of the local mountains are local shrines.

The Alps are located in Central Europe and are in the territories northern Italy, southern Austria, the southern half of Switzerland and eastern France.

Switzerland

The Swiss mountains are, first of all, of course, the Alps, majestic and fabulously beautiful, sharp peaks covered with snow, and slopes with green meadows.

In addition, the Swiss mountains are a real oasis for skiers, snowboarders and other winter sports enthusiasts.

Italy

The Dolomites are the name of a mountain range in northeastern Italy. Its length is more than 150 km and its height is more than 3300 meters.

The presence of dolomite in the structure of the mountains gives them a special charm - in the rays of the rising and setting sun, the rocks acquire unusual shades, from cream to pale pink.

The Carpathian mountain system stands in the center of Europe and belongs to the northern branch of the Alpine fold belt.

The Ukrainian Carpathians are located in the western region on the border with Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and Romania. On the tops of the mountains there are meadows - alpine meadows, where you can see many species of plants.

Africa

In the north-east of Tanzania, in the desert plain, is the highest peak in Africa - the incomparable volcano Kilimanjaro. It is located above the Masai plateau.

The top of a dormant volcano with a snow-white cap that sparkles in the bright rays of the African sun.

Perhaps that is why the locals called it Kilimanjaro, which means “sparkling mountain” in Swahili.

In the old days, the tribes inhabiting this area, who had never seen snow, thought that it was covered with silver.

Caucasus Mountains

Mount Fisht

Fisht is one of the most famous and beautiful peaks Western Caucasus. In clear weather it can be seen from Krasnodar, Sochi, Slavyansk-on-Kuban, Armavir and Timashevsk.

The extraordinary Mount Elbrus, which attracts climbers, skiers and outdoor enthusiasts, is actually a volcano.

Scientists call this mountain a stratovolcano, which means that from time to time streams of lava erupt from the vent, which, due to their density, do not spread over long distances, but solidify not far from the eruption site. Therefore, Elbrus “grows” every time and today is considered the highest mountain peak in Europe.

Alaska

McKinley is a double-headed mountain located in Alaska and is the highest peak North America. Stands in the center of Denali National Park.

Chile

Mountains occupy 80% of Chilean territory. These are two parallel ridges - the Main and Coastal Cordillera. Highest mountain point Chile - Ojos del Salado.

USA

Mountains, canyons, hills and sky-high peaks, the Sierra Nevada Mountains surround the center of the California Valley, protecting it from the hot desert winds.

California is home to the geographic lowest point in Death Valley and the highest mountain peak in the United States, Whitney.

Logan is the highest mountain in Canada. Worth in national park Kluane is in southwestern Canada in the Yukon in the mountain range - St. Elias Range.

The Canadian Rockies, Appalachians, Long Range, Carlton, Cordillera, Colonels, Mackenzie - this is just a small part of Canada's mountain splendor.

Tajikistan

The Fan Mountains are located in the southwest of the Pamir-Alai near the Zeravshan and Gissar ranges. Fans are attracted primarily by the excellent sunny and stable weather in July - August.

The main wealth of the Fan Mountains is, of course, lakes. There are more than thirty of them here. Large and small, deep and shallow, legendary and lost in inaccessible gorges.

Himalayas

Some of the most famous incredible wonders of the world are considered Himalayan mountains. The point is not only in the greatness of this creation of nature, but also in large quantities the unknown that these gigantic peaks contain.

The Himalayan massif passes through the lands of five countries - India, Pakistan, China, Nepal and the Kingdom of Bhutan. The eastern foothills of the range border the north of the Republic of Bangladesh.

Japan

Despite the dense population of Japan, a large area is occupied by masterpieces of nature - the mountains of Japan. They took a third of the country's surface. Here you can see the most amazing reliefs - from lowland forests to mighty highlands.

In addition, Japan is famous for its volcanoes, of which there are more than 200, 160 of which are considered extinct.

The undisputed symbol of the country is sacred mountain Fuji. This is the most beautiful and famous mountain Japan, which was sung in ancient legends and tales.

In addition to her, Mount Ontakesan, Hakusan and Tateyama are also highly revered.

Explanation (see also Rule below).

Let's give the correct spelling.

There were no majestic mountains and rocks surrounded by clouds; it was an ordinary Russian expanse: fields, meadows, rare villages with thatched and wooden roofs.

In this sentence:

majestic – an adjective formed with the suffix –ENN–;

surrounded - full participle with a prefix and a dependent word;

straw - an adjective formed using the suffix –ENN–;

wooden - adjective, word exception (NN, although formed using the suffix -YANN-).

Answer: 1234.

Answer: 1234

Rule: Task 15. Writing N and NN in words of different parts of speech

RIGHT -N-/-NN- IN DIFFERENT PART OF SPEECH.

Tra-di-tsi-on-but is the most difficult topic for students, since justification for writing N or NN is possible -but only with knowledge of the morphological and verbal laws. Ma-te-ri-al "References" summarizes and si-ste-ma-ti-zi-ru-et all the rules of topics N and NN from school textbooks and gives additional information from V.V.’s reference books. Lo-pa-ti-na and D.E ​​Ro-zen-ta-la in the volume that we don’t need to do to complete the Unified State Examination.

14.1 N and NN in denotative adjectives (formed from the names of nouns).

14.1.1 Two NNs in suffixes

In suf-fi-sahs with-la-ga-tel-nykh written-she-xia NN, If:

1). sa N: tumaN+ N → tu-maN-Ny; kar-man+N → kar-man-Ny, kar-ton+N → kar-man-Ny

old (from star-ri-Na+N), car-tiny (from car-ti-Na+N), deep (from deep-Na+N), di- co-wine (from di-ko-vi-Na+N), not a dozen (from dozen-Na+N), true (from is-ti-Na+N ), bar-schi-ny (from bar-schi-Na+N), communal (from ob-schi-Na+N), long (from length+N)

Pay attention: the word “strange” from the point of view of the modern language does not have the suffix N in its composition and is not related similar to the word “country”. But it is possible to explain the thread of NN: a person from a foreign country is considered differently-minded, alien, in a hundred -ron-nim.

These-mo-lo-gi-che-ski can be explained by using the word “under-lin-ny”: under-lin-noy in Ancient Rus' na-zy-va- It was true, which under-su-di-my said “under the lengths” - especially the lengths fell-ka-mi or Knu-ta-mi.

2). -, -ONN: klyuk-ven-ny (klyuk-va), re-vo-lu-tsi-ON-ny (re-vo-lu-tion), solemn-stven-ny (tor-same-stvo).

Exception: wind-rE-Ny (but: without-wind-rEN-Ny).

Pay attention:

There are words-names that are attached, in which N is part of the root. You need to memorize these words. They are not made from the names of real beings:

crimson, green, spicy, drunk, porky, red, rosy, young.

14.1.2. N

N, If:

1) when-la-ga-tel-noe has the suffix -IN- ( go-lu-bi-ny, we-shi-ny, so-lo-vy-ny, tiger-ri-ny). Words with this suffix often mean “whose”: go-lu-bya, mouse, nightingale, tiger.

2) when-la-ga-tel-noe has suffixes -AN-, -YAN- ( dog-chA-ny, leather-skinny, sheep-sya-ny, earth-lya-Noy). Words with this suffix often mean “made from something”: from sand, from leather, from oats, from earth.

Exceptions: glass-lyan-ny, tin-vyan-ny, de-re-vyan-ny.

14.2. N and NN in suffixes of words derived from verbs. Full forms.

As you know, from verbs there can be forms and participles, and adjective names (= from verb-gol- nye pr-la-ga-tel-nye). Pra-vi-la na-pi-sa-niya N and NN in these words are different.

14.2.1 NN in suffixes of full participles and from-verb adjectives

In suffixes of full participles and from-verbal adjectives NN is written if it is observed AT LEAST ONE of the conditions:

1) the word about-ra-zo-va-but from the word-go-la perfect look, WITH OR WITHOUT APPENDIX, for example:

from the verbs buy-drink, you-ku-drink (what to do?, perfect form): purchased-linen, you-purchased-linen;

from the verbs throw, for-throw (what to do?, perfect form): abandoned-for-abandoned.

The prefix does NOT change the type of participle and does not affect the writing of the suffix. Any other prefix gives the word a perfect appearance

2) in the word there are suffixes -OVA-, -EVA-, even in words of a non-complete type ( ma-ri-no-VAN-Ny, as-fal-ti-rO-VAN-Ny, av-to-ma-ti-zi-rO-VAN-Ny).

3) with a word that is derived from a verb, there is a behind-the-si-my word, that is, it forms a participial turn, For example: mo-ro-zhen-Noe in ho-lo-dil-ni-ke, va-ren-nye in bu-lyo-ne).

NOTE: In cases where the full participle is transferred in a specific sentence to the name of the adjective ga-tel-noe, na-pi-sa-nie doesn’t-me-et-sya. For example: Excited With this co-publication, the father spoke loudly and did not hold back his emotions. You-de-linen word - participle in participle, excited how? this co-general. Me-nya-em pre-lo-zhe-nie: His face was excited-but-vaN-Nym, and there is no longer any participle, no expression, because the face cannot be “excited,” and this is an adjective name. In such cases, they talk about the transfer of participles into pri-la-ga-tel-nye, but on the basis of NN this fact doesn't have any influence.

More examples: De-voush was very or-ga-ni-zo-vaN-Noy And vo-pi-taN-Noi. Here both words are adjective names. De-vush-ku is not “ob-ra-zo-you-va-li”, and it is always remembered, these are constant signs. From my preposition: We hurried to the meeting, or-ga-ni-zo-vaN-nuyu partners. Mom, raise Naya in strictness, and raise us just as strictly. And now you-de-linen words are participles.

In such cases, in the explanation for the task, we write: pri-la-ga-tel-noe, ra-zo-van-noe from par-participation or pri-la-ga-tel-noe, pere-shed-neck from the par-part.

Illustrations: unexpected, not-ga-given, not-seen-given, not-heard-of, not-cha-yan-ny, honey-lax- ny, ot-cha-yan-ny, sacred, desirable..

Pay attention to the fact that words have left the list of exceptions count-ta-Noe (mi-well-you), de-la-Noe (equal-spirit). These words are written jokes according to the general rule.

Let's add some more words here:

bitchy, pecking, chewed eva/ova are included in the composition of the root, these are not suffixes to write NN. But when the prefix appears, they joke according to the general rule: Chewed-up, under-co-van-ny, pecked-out.

the ra-ne-ny pi-shet is one N. Compare: Wounded in battle(two N, because of what appeared behind my word); from-ra-nEN-ny, perfect appearance, there is an attachment).

smart, it is difficult to determine the type of word.

14.2. 2 One N in verb-gol-nyh pri-la-ga-tel-nyh

In suffixes from-gla-gol-nyh with-la-ga-tel-nyh write-shet-xia, if:

the word about-ra-zo-va-but from the word of a not-so-ver-shen-type, that is, it answers the question what's wrong with the object? and with the word in the pre-lo-same there are no words behind it.

tu-she-Noe(his tu-shi-li) meat,

stri-zhe-nye(they cut) their hair,

boiled(his wa-ri-li) potato-fel,

lo-ma-naya(her lo-ma-li) line,

stained(his mo-ri-li) oak (dark in the re-zul-ta-th special processing),

BUT: as soon as these words-at-la-ga-tel-nyh appear for-my word, they immediately move into order when -chastiy and pi-joking with two N.

tu-shEN-Noe in the spirit(his tu-shi-li) meat,

sheared women not long ago(they cut) their hair,

steamed(his wa-ri-li) potato-fel.

DIFFERENTLY: the participles (on the right) and the participles (on the left) have different meanings! Big-shi-mi letters-va-mi you-de-le-ny stressed vowels.

called-brother, called-sister- a person who is not in a biological relationship with a given person, but agrees to the brotherly (sisterly) from-no-she-niya voluntarily. - to the address I called;

imprisoned father (playing the role of ro-di-te-la same-ni-ha or non-ve-sty at the wedding ceremony). - like a wife at the table;

given (property, yes-my ignorance of her family for life in marriage) - given a chic look;

narrowed (as they call it, from the word fate) - narrowed skirt, from the word narrow, make narrow)

Forgiveness Sunday (re-li-gi-oz-ny holiday) - forgiven by me;

pi-sa-naya kra-sa-vi-tsa(epi-tet, phrase-zeo-logism) - pi-san-naya mas-lom kar-ti-na.

14.2.3. Writing N and NN in complex adjectives

In the context of a complex word, the na-pi-sa-nie from-gla-gol-no-go with-la-ga-tel-no-go doesn’t change:

A) the first part of the ob-ra-zo-va-na from the verbs of a not-so-ver-shen-type, which means we write N: smooth-to-kra-shE-Ny (kra-sit), hot-che-ka-ta-Ny, do-mo-tka-Ny, motley-ro-tka-Ny, evil-tka-Ny (weave); goal-but-kro-E-Ny cut), evil-to-va-Ny (to-to-to), small-lo-ez-zE-Ny (to drive), small-lo-ho- yellow (to walk), small-no-she-ny (but-sit), small-salty (salt), finely crushed (crushed), fresh- Slaked (ha-sit), fresh-mo-ro-zE-Ny (mo-ro-sit) and others.

b) the second part of the compound word about-ra-zo-va-na from the pre-sta-voch-no-go-go-la of a very-very-shen-no-type, which means we write NN: smooth O painted ( O beautiful), fresh for mo-ro-wives-ny ( for freeze) etc.).

In the second part of complex forms, N is written, although there is a prefix PERE-: gla-same-new-per-re-gla-same-new, la-ta-new-per-re-la-ta-new, but-she-new-per-re-no-she-new, sti- ra-Noe-pe-re-sti-ra-Noe, str-la-Ny-per-re-str-la-Noe, what-pa-Noe-per-re-shto-pa-Noe.

Thus, you can complete the task according to the following algorithm:

14.3. N and NN in short adjectives and short adjectives

Both participles and adjectives have not only full, but also short forms.

Right: In short phrases, one N is always written.

Right: In short adjectives the writings are as N as in the full form.

But in order to apply the rule, you need to differentiate between adjectives and participles.

DON'T TEA short adjectives and participles:

1) according to the question: short adjectives - what? ka-ko-va? how are you? what? how are you?, brief participles - what’s been done? what's the matter? what's done? what have we done?

2) by value(a short adjective has a relation to the action, you can replace it with a verb; a short adjective gives a character -te-ri-sti-ku defines the word, does not communicate about the action);

3) according to the name of the word(short adjectives do not and cannot have, short adjectives have).

14.4. One or two Hs can also be written in na-re-chi-yah.

In na-re-chi-yah, -O/-E is written with as many N as there are in the original word, For example: calmly with one H, since in pr-la-ga-tel-nom calm suff-f-fix N; slowly with NN, because in pr-la-ga-tel-nom slow NN; enthusiastically with NN, because in part PASSIONATE NN.

Given the seemingly uncomplicated nature of this rule, there is a problem of delineating it in speech, briefly. some participles and short participles. For example, in the word so-medi-to-che (N, NN)o it is not possible to choose one or another spelling WITHOUT knowing than this word appears in a sentence or word.

DIFFERENTLY short adjectives, short participles and adverbs.

1) according to the question: short adjectives - what? ka-ko-va? how are you? what? how-are-you?, brief participles - what’s been done? what's the matter? what's done? what have we done? in speech: how?

2) by value(a short adjective has a relation to the action, you can replace it with a verb; a short adjective gives a character -te-ri-sti-ku defines the word, does not communicate about the action); what it means is a sign of an action, how it happens)

3) by role in the sentence:(short adjectives and short participles are often used to say

from-no-sit-xia to the verb-go-lu and is-la-et-sya about-the-s-t-tel-stvom)

14.5. N and NN in nouns

1.In nouns (as well as in short adjectives and speeches) the same N is written as in with-la-ga-tel-nyh (at-cha-sti-yah), from which they are formed:

From the names of pri-la-ga-tel-nyh ob-ra-zo-va-nas and words

related/ik from related, third-party/ik from third-party, unified-mysh-lenn/ik from unified-mysh-lenn-ny, (evil-intentioned /ik, co-intended-lenn/ik), stav-lenn/ik from stav-len-ny, drowned-lenn/ik from drowned-len-ny, numeral/ik from numeric-len-nyy, co- domestic/ik from co-patriotic) and many others.

2. Nouns can also be derived from verbs and other nouns.

Note to the table: *Words that joke with N and at the same time are not derived from adjectives (participants) in Russian there are only one language. They need to be taught by heart.

NN is also written in words traveler(from pu-te-she-stvo-vat), predecessor(precede)

For many years now I have been collecting interesting quotes from travelers, climbers, and researchers on outdoor topics.

All this is mostly accumulated “on the table”, although sometimes it finds use.

So, for example, we made packaging for ours with some quotes from my collection.

But still, the bulk lies as “dead weight” and does not work, although many quotes, as the quintessence of the experience and views on life of people who are great and have first-hand knowledge of issues of travel, mountaineering, human interaction with wild nature and mountains, can be useful and interesting to many.

Some quotes can make you smile with their naivety, for example, I liked Maurice Herzog’s statement about Annapurna, and I took it to my collection. Words about the mountain were spoken even before the expedition to this eight-thousander began; in Russian translation they sound like this:

“As for Annapurna... this peak is easily accessible and is therefore of only limited sporting interest.”© Maurice Herzog

It is difficult to agree with this statement now, knowing that Annapurna is one of the most difficult and dangerous eight-thousanders on the planet.

Some quotes bear the imprint of an era, are a product of their time and personify the development and ideas of society, which we can look at through the prism of achievements known to us. As an example, an openly racist quote from Robert Peary

“One intelligent white man should be at the head, two whites, invited to the expedition because of their courage, determination, physical endurance and devotion to the leader, should form the hands, and the dog drivers and others local residents– body and legs of the expedition. For the peace of mind of men, it is necessary to take women on the trip; besides this, they are in many respects as useful as men, and in strength and endurance they are often almost equal to them.”

But I think the thoughts expressed by great travelers, climbers and investigators on issues of preparation, organization and safety are of particular value. Very often, one apt and strong phrase uttered by a distinguished person can give much more to understanding the essence of the issue than voluminous articles and verbose explanations.

My favorite quote of these comes from Roald Amundsen and goes:

"An expedition is preparation"

In just three words, the great polar explorer was able to express the main success of any business.

Quotes about mountains and mountaineering

“In the mountains you need to depend only on yourself, on your own strength, so expecting that someone will help at high altitude is immoral.” © Anatoly Bukreev

“Mountains are not stadiums where I satisfy my ambitions, they are temples where I practice my religion.” © Anatoly Bukreev

“The mountains have the power to call us to their lands, this is no longer a passion, this is my destiny...” © Anatoly Bukreev

“Only mountains can be better than mountains,
Which I haven’t been to before.”

“Every person needs something exceptional in an era when money can have everything.” © Reinhold Messner

“A person learns through defeats, not victories, as it may seem. To correctly assess the situation, you need to know your limit and it can only be determined in practice. I have failed on thirteen 8000m peaks and I want to be remembered as the climber who has failed the most. I wasn't interested in records. If I had not failed at Dhaulagiri, Makalu and Lhotse at one time, I would have died long ago. I love challenges, but I know how to retreat in time.” © Reinhold Messner

“If you go to mountains where there is no danger, you are not a real mountaineer.” © Reinhold Messner

“Mountaineering is an archaic world, devoid of rules, and that is why the cost of error here is very high. The anarchy that reigns all around forces the climber to be responsible for his own life. Each difficult climb is deadly, and in this sense, mountaineering is a deeply selfish activity.” © Reinhold Messner

“Nor was I of the opinion that a climber who dies while climbing automatically becomes a hero. The death of a climber is a tragedy. No more, no less. And the only thing that can be done for the victims is to help their loved ones.” © Reinhold Messner

“For a person suffering from stress, lost in an expanding civilization, the mountains have become a kind of “play space” in which he can enrich himself with experiences and experiences that are not available to him in ordinary, everyday life. Game space, game, rules of the game. Owning them is the only condition for fully enjoying the exciting lifestyle: mountaineering.” © Reinhold Messner

“Only climbers know how much willpower and courage it takes to retreat where there is at least something that would justify moving up.” © Reinhold Messner

“I'm a happy person. I had a dream and it came true, and that doesn’t happen very often to a person. Climbing Everest - my people call it Chomolungma - was the deepest desire of my whole life. Seven times I got down to business; I failed and started again, again and again, not with the feeling of bitterness that drives a soldier against the enemy, but with love, like a child climbing onto its mother’s lap.” © Tenzing Norgay

“I hate grumbling and fighting over trifles when we are talking about great things. When people go to the mountains, they should forget about molehills. Whoever goes for a big job must have a big soul" © Tenzing Norgay

“For the opportunity to go to Everest, I would accept any job, from a dishwasher to a Yeti driver.” © Tenzing Norgay

“... I trained hard, trying to regain my shape. I got up early in the morning, loaded my backpack with stones, and took long walks in the hills around the city - this was my routine for a number of years before large expeditions. I did not smoke, did not drink, and avoided parties, which I usually love very much. And all this time I was thinking, planning, speculating how my seventh trip to Everest would go. “This time you must overcome the peak,” I told myself, “Succeed or perish...” © Tenzing Norgay

“Future generations will ask: “Who were the first people to reach the top of the world?” And I would like the answer to be one that I don’t have to be ashamed of. Everest: highest point not just one country, but the whole world. It was taken by the people of the East and the West together. It belongs to us all. And I also want to belong to everyone, to be a brother to all people...” © Tenzing Norgay

“The peak cannot be conquered. You stand on it for a few minutes, and then the wind sweeps away your traces.” © Arlen Bloom

“You never conquer a mountain. You just stand on the top a few moments. Then the wind blows your footprints away." © Arlene Blum

“For most people, mountains are something majestic, but far from everyday life, that is, ideal harmony.” © Ueli Steck

“I am often scared, although no one believes it. But when is a person not afraid? When he doesn’t know something or overestimates his abilities. Fortunately, such a thing - for me to overestimate myself - has never happened to me...” © Ueli Steck

“First of all, love the mountains. You need to know the mountains, respect them and not think that you will throw your hats at them. You need to be on friendly terms with mountains. Be it a 1b category peak or a highest category route.” © Vladimir Shataev

“I can look up at the mountain for hours. It may seem strange, but I am talking to the mountain. I’m trying to understand whether she’s waiting for me or not, whether she’ll let me in or not.” © Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner

“Sometimes I think that’s why I go to the mountains, to understand how precious gray everyday life is for me. Returning to experience the taste of a cup of hot tea after days of thirst, sleep after many sleepless nights, meeting friends after a long solitude, silence after hours spent in a terrible storm.” © Wanda Rutkevich

“I’m not going to conquer the mountains - they are as much a part of the world as people. I’m conquering myself.” © Wanda Rutkevich

“Mountains are a way, but the goal is the person himself. The ultimate meaning is not to reach mountain peaks, but to improve man. Climbing takes on meaning only if the person remains the focus.” © Walter Bonnati

“I think every climber has many reasons to climb the Matterhorn. But everyone has the same main reason: to climb the Matterhorn" © Gaston Rebbufa

“By rising to the top, a person elevates himself and his soul, his heart and his dream. As far as the eye can see, a country of snow and rocks stretches out before him in silence and mystery. Mountains are a special world, they form part of the planet, like a mysterious, isolated kingdom, where the symbol of life is will and love" © Gaston Rebbufa

“Tien Shan is not a place for mountaineering fun!” © Gottfried Merzbacher

“A woman is the main danger for a climber. We all know this undiligent truth." © Maurice Herzog

“Having crossed the limits of our strength, having known the boundaries of the human world, we realized the true greatness of Man” © Maurice Herzog

“No victory could justify the deliberate gamble with human lives.” © Maurice Herzog

“As for Annapurna... this peak is easily accessible and is therefore of only limited sporting interest.” © Maurice Herzog 1950

“I live as if in a dream. Death is near, I feel it. What a wonderful death for a climber! How it harmonizes with the noble passion that rules our souls! I am grateful to the peak for making it so beautiful today. Its silence resembles the grandeur of a cathedral. I don't suffer or worry at all. My peace of mind is terrible." © Maurice Herzog June 4, 1950.

“From time to time, at least for cheerfulness, it is useful to look up. On the contrary, it is not recommended to look down, since the sight of these terrifying abysses can shake the fortitude of any optimist.” © Maurice Herzog

“The mountains call those whose souls are their height!” © V.L. Belilovsky

© V.L. Belilovsky

“A good climber should not only be healthy, he should be resourceful and cunning, guided by one thought - to survive...” © Vitaly Gorelik

“My partners had to be strong, humble, fast and always optimistic.” © Simone Moro

“Accidents and risk are part of our life. In love, work, sports, etc. we take risks every day throughout our lives. Climbing mountains is, of course, much riskier than working in an office, but I am not attracted to a safe life instead of a deep and fulfilling one... I would rather be happy every day of my 36 years than to be happy on Sundays for 80 years...” © Simone Moro

“It’s important to me to come back safe and sound, whether I win or lose, although that term doesn’t really apply to those coming down from above.” © Simone Moro

“Even if I have to use it, I hate climbing with oxygen. These are dishonest and unsportsmanlike climbs, and that’s why I’m going back to those mountains where I climbed with oxygen...” © Simone Moro

“Easy, fast style and a small team - that’s what I love about climbing. Why? This is a more sporting and fair game between the climber and the mountain. I respect, but I don’t like, the attack of peaks by large teams...” © Simone Moro

“An ice ax and crampons instead of claws, boots and clothing complement the fur and fat, a tent instead of a cave or hole. And oxygen is a change in nature itself, the environment... And one more comparison - about divers. Can you dive 200 meters without scuba gear? That's right - no. And no one can, however, everyone admits that this is ABSOLUTELY different types sports But for some reason everyone is sure about mountaineering that there is no big difference. Paradox?" © Denis Urubko

“In general, all the most difficult moments in the mountains, as in ordinary life, occur in consciousness, in overcoming oneself and in relationships between people. Frost, wind, height - all these are just attributes, the specifics of the sport, which is only a background for learning about yourself and your friends. Everything “extreme” changes and is forgotten, but experience and feelings remain.” © Denis Urubko

“We will all be THERE... but I want to push back the date of departure to “as far as possible.” And to do this, you need to control every step, act correctly, and learn from the masters.” © Denis Urubko

“I believe that mountaineering should be fun, even when the going gets tough, and even when someone has to pay for the challenge. After all, if we are willing to pay such a price, then mountaineering really brings pleasure.” © Chris Bonington

“Society is very unfair to female climbers and mountaineering mothers. There is no such attitude towards male climbers who risk their lives in the mountains, leaving their families at home - and the public often condemns mothers who want to climb. In my opinion, both parents are equally important for a child, and therefore I see no difference whether the father or mother is a mountaineer!” © Edurne Pasaban

“Turning around in a situation where, it would seem, there is nothing particularly dangerous is sometimes a heroic act. Such feats are only for you. Do them. Turn back, but get the opportunity to come back here again. No mountain is worth a single pinky fingernail!” © Nikolay Totmyanin

"Mountains! Their snow-white, dazzling domes against the backdrop of unimaginably blue and deep blue - aren’t they a symbol of the human dream, the call of which has been disturbing daring souls for centuries? And isn’t each of us given his own height in his chosen task?” © Mikhail Turkevich

“The higher and more difficult the peak, the more friends you meet on its slopes, no matter in what region of the globe it is located.” © Mikhail Turkevich

“We stood on the highest peak on the planet. We climbed this high, overcoming frost and wind, lack of oxygen and low pressure. We climbed here, risking every minute to fall, to fall under a rockfall, under an avalanche. We gave our comrades the last sip of the water so desired here, we conceded the most to each other in the tents. convenient place, warmed our neighbor in the bivouac with their warmth, joked and sang songs when the wind tried to tear the tents together with us into the abyss... For the sake of such moments, for the sake of the opportunity to test yourself, get to know your friends better, reach the limit of the possible and look beyond this limit - for the sake of all this It's worth going to the mountains." © Mikhail Turkevich

“Stars the size of fists pulsated above us. They broke down and fell to the ground towards us. Fantastic starfall! The moon hung just above your head, and it seemed very easy to reach it with your hand..." © Mikhail Turkevich

“What a pleasure it is to contemplate the majestic mountain ranges and be above the clouds! What else in the world can be so whole, so complete, as climbing mountains.” © Konrad Gesner

“There is the concept of front-line brotherhood, there is also the concept of mountaineering brotherhood. This is true. I have a lot of teaching practice. When the newcomers begin to leave after a 20-day stay in the mountain camp, they literally leave in tears. Why? People being in tough climatic conditions United by a common idea, they communicate and solve a common problem. Help, mutual assistance, just being together - unites people to such an extent that the phenomenon is called brotherhood. Like in a war, when in the most difficult conditions people united, doing a significant thing, winning, losing, fighting, dying, etc.

This is an integral part of mountaineering, it is good and pleasing. I am happy that I know all the people that mountaineering has given me. That we were united by an idea. Although it happened in different years, in different areas, we haven’t met for a long time, but you can’t throw out what happened from your destiny.” © Sergey Bogomolov

“When you stand at the top, especially if it’s the top of an eight-thousander, mountains stretch in all directions as far as the eye can see. It seems that the whole world is ridges covered with eternal snow and nothing else. But we know that this is not so. There, further, there are seas and oceans, forests and gardens, beautiful cities... That’s how it is in my life. Mountaineering is a favorite thing, a profession, but besides it there is family and friends, songs and books, theaters and exhibitions. All this is also very interesting and dear to me. All this is my life." © Sergey Bershov

“Always keep a clear head and be prepared to work in any conditions and face any surprises. To do this, you need to prepare comprehensively and constantly. And then you can enjoy the beauty of the mountains and enjoy the climb itself.” © Evgeny Vinogradsky

“I can’t give you a new answer why people strive for the mountains. Most people still go just to get to the top.” © Edmund Hillary

“...The struggle of a person with the peak goes beyond the scope of mountaineering in its purely sporting sense. In my eyes, she is a symbol of man's struggle with the forces of nature; it clearly expresses the continuity of this difficult battle and the unity of all who took part in it. …Shortly after our return from Everest, some of us had to talk to a group of students. One of them asked me: “What is the point of climbing Everest? Were you financially interested or was this just some kind of madness?” © John Hunt

“Long attempts to conquer a difficult peak can be compared to a relay race, where each team member, having completed his part of the path, passes the baton to the next one until the entire distance is completed.” © John Hunt

“As long as the climber adapts to the mountain, it is mountaineering. When he begins to adapt the mountain for his purposes, this is construction work.” © John Hunt

“I love peaks as individuals, as equal parts of a larger whole.” © Herbert Tichy

“The risk must always be justified in some way.” © Vitaly Abalakov

“Mountaineering is a complex and dangerous multifaceted human activity. A rare combination of sophisticated mental and physical work in a very challenging environment." © Vitaly Abalakov

“What does mountaineering give to an individual? - a prominent Western mountaineer asked half a century ago and answered this way: - It returns us to nature, that element with which most of us have lost direct contact. The upward striving, boundless, elemental - doesn’t it carry us, as if on magical wings, somewhere far from the usual level, and with it from ordinary thoughts?” © Evgeniy Abalakov

“Now sparkling, joyful, calling, now menacing and angry, challenging to single combat, now mysterious, hiding itself with an elusive curtain and only for a moment revealing itself with wonderful fantastic visions of a special world, the harsh, beautiful, eternally calling element of mountain peaks.” © Evgeniy Abalakov

“You can be the greatest climber in the world and at the same time be a selfish asshole who doesn't care about his family and friends. Or you may be someone who tries to learn something from the rivers and mountains, who becomes a better person when they return. I'm trying to be that person." © Doug Ammons.

“Climbing for me is one of the forms of knowledge that inspires me and helps me contrast my inner world with nature. It is a means of experiencing a state of consciousness where there is no distraction or expectation. This is an intuitive state of being, something that gives me the opportunity to experience moments of true freedom and harmony.” © Lynn Hill

“The colors of mountain sunsets are bright and unique - sometimes scarlet, purple, crimson and crimson, sometimes full of royal splendor, when it seems that half the sky is filled with molten gold.” © Konstantin Rototaev

“Mountaineering begins where the paths end, and does not end even at the top, because it’s not enough to go up, you also have to go down. On the descent, the climber is often faced with difficult trials.” © Nikolay Tikhonov

The path to the top is open to anyone

Who loves heights fearlessly

Where the ice ax rings and where the heart rings

There the friendship of the brave is born!

© Nikolay Tikhonov

“...it is important how you climb, not where you climb. You know, many years ago in Yosemite we realized that there was nothing up there. You climb out, and there are stones and a path down. Therefore, even then it became clear that what matters is not where you climbed, but how you did it! And it is precisely this process of “how?” compromised by the unrestrained use of bolts. Or take Everest for example. The most terrifying example of a “dead end” in mountaineering development! Dozens of almost permanently installed aluminum stairs, kilometers of railings... Having climbed up, you have climbed “something”, but not the Top of the World - Everest.” © Yvon Chainard

“What matters is what you do here and now. It is important to climb the route having fun and it is not at all important to leave a mark for centuries. Who needs it, this trace of yours on this rock wall that is not needed by humanity? © Yvon Chainard

“What space! What enchanting beauty in all these snow giants towering into the sky! What a variety of colors and tones in these fabulous cliffs of an endless chain of mountains, lost somewhere far, far away. How deeply all this touches the soul and heart of a person! He is overcome by such a feeling of delight, which is beyond human power to describe.” © Sergey Kirov

"I'm only afraid in the mountains bad weather. This is the only thing in the mountains that does not depend on us.” © Junko Tabei

“We have to go to the mountain. It is difficult, but we must meet halfway; the mountain itself will not come to you. base camp." © Vladislav Terzyul

“There at a height, closer to God, a person becomes purer and nobler” © Vladislav Terzyul

“Mountains, mountains! What kind of magnetism is hidden in you! What a symbol of tranquility is contained in each sparkling peak! The bravest legends are born near the mountains. The most humane words come from the snowy heights. Some people are afraid of mountains and claim that mountains choke them. Aren’t these people afraid of big things?” © Nicholas Roerich

“The mountains are the only place where I can relax.” © Igor Tamm

“Untouched nature brings incomparable spiritual peace. Added to this is the deep satisfaction of overcoming obstacles. In the mountains, friendships with comrades, cemented by dangers, are born and remain for life.” © Igor Tamm

“High-altitude mountaineering is the closest sport to astronautics” © Terman Titov

“Everest is the highest pole of the earth. Getting to the top on foot, relying on my own legs and the power of my mind, turned out to be only slightly easier than landing a man on the moon. Only 16 years separated these two events.” ©

F.M. Sveshnikov

“Mountaineering is a sport of difficult decisions. In the mountains you cannot hide behind empty words; here only action is valued. A person in mountaineering is worth exactly as much as he really is.” © F.M. Sveshnikov

“At any age, you must continue to dream. You must try to make dreams come true. I know well that if you have a strong heart and take one small step after another, you will reach the top of the world.” © Iyuchiro Miuro

“Believe in yourself in the face of death. Fear won't do anything to you. It doesn't matter if you live or die when your heart beats faster than 100 beats per minute. Fears go away when you just start climbing.” © Iyuchiro Miuro

“I realized very early that someone who goes with a strong partner may never experience the very essence of mountaineering, and in any case will receive only part of the emotions from climbing... In the end, he is only a follower... if he leads, he takes takes responsibility for the success of the enterprise, then something more opens up for him... I see no reason why women could not lead in serious ascents... but I also realize that if a woman takes on this role, then the participation of men in the project cannot out of the question." © Miriam O'Brien Underhill

“Whoever does not get confused in the snowy mountains will not be afraid in battle.” This is the slogan of the Soviet climber. Cowardice is a lack of confidence in oneself, in one’s knowledge. Such qualities as caution, attentiveness, accuracy, and sometimes slowness due to careful control of the path, security and self-preservation should not be confused with cowardice.
Brave is considered to be the one who, having weighed all the difficulties and prepared accordingly to overcome them, decisively and energetically fights for the implementation of the task, who does not get lost in difficult times; whoever calmly and patiently seeks the path to victory will always find it...” © Physical training of climbers I. Yukhin, 1939.

“The only opportunity to compensate for my inferiority, my lack of confidence in my own abilities, was to practice mountaineering. Surrendering myself completely to this was my only salvation. Now the natural course of events in my life was to conquer one peak after another - first in Japan, and then abroad.” © Naomi Uemura

“Mountaineering is more of a mental sport than a physical one. If you really really want to do something, what's a little more pain for you? Just go with it." © Mark Inglis

“The call of the high mountains... Perhaps this is part of man’s eternal quest, a certain excess of that vital energy that moves humanity from century to century in its attempt to always achieve more and more high peak human aspirations?.. Even if the conquest of Everest becomes an ordinary event, there will always be more high Everests; even if in the distant future our Earth becomes a place without secrets, there will always be other peaks to climb and other worlds to explore. For those willing to venture fearlessly into uncharted seas and the unconquered peaks of human endeavor, there will never be a shortage of adventure for mind and body.” © Jawaharlal Nehru

“Let them not, however, think that climbing highest peaks- just hard, tedious work. There are no words to describe the impression made by these giants, or to convey the feeling of a climber who finds himself on the verge of a dead kingdom, where the violent wind, the scorching sun and the merciless frost, as well as the thinness of the air, make all life impossible.” © Charles Evans, Inviolable Kanchenjunga, M., Physical Education and Sports, 1961

“What made both man and animal strive for these barren heights? Dr. James Chapin, who spent many years studying the birds of the Congo, once found the skeleton of the Hamlin's monkey on the top of Karisimbi, many miles from its native forests. And recently I read interesting note about a pack of hyena dogs that was seen in the glaciers of Kilimanjaro, at an altitude of almost twenty thousand feet. Perhaps man is not the only creature in this world who climbs a mountain just because it stands in front of him.” © George Schaller Year under the sign of the gorilla. M., Mysl, 1968.

“...When I crossed the ridge into Georgia, I abandoned the cart and began to ride a horse: I climbed the snowy mountain (Krestovaya) to the very top, which is not at all easy; From there you can see half of Georgia as if on a silver platter, and, really, I don’t undertake to explain or describe this amazing feeling; For me, mountain air is a balm; the blues be damned, the heart is beating, the chest is breathing high - nothing is needed at this moment; I could sit and watch like that for the rest of my life.” © Mikhail Lermontov

“I am far from self-praise, far from ambition and competition, I just want to say that mountaineering should be considered as a beautiful game in which every accident is either a mistake or carelessness, and death is a real tragedy. In order to avoid a demonstration of heroism, I, like most of us, believe that it is better to wait than to rush and take risks, it is better to slow down than to be out of breath, it is better to sing than to shout...” © Jean Franco “Makalu”

“We have entered into a grandiose and wonderful battle with nature, and we are putting all our physical, mental and moral strength into achieving victory. In a few weeks the battle, which took place in an atmosphere of passionate intensity and brotherly friendship, raised us above human mediocrity.” © Jean Franco “The Battle of Joan”

“When you look from the height of Pobeda Peak, it seems that the other peaks are squatting.” © Lyudmila Agranovskaya

“Mountains are made to show a person what a dream can look like..” © Yuri Vizbor

“Life is a continuous ascent along an untrodden path that winds along the mountain slopes... I stand on a white mountain and look into the blue distance of the roads I have traveled. Ahead rises a peak under a blue hat of snow. If I manage to climb it, I will see new distances..." © A. Keshokov story View from the White Mountain

“Great things are done when men and mountains meet...” © William Blake

“Something inside me kills my interest in playing at low limits. For me, it's either a high stake or nothing. And it's eating me up." © Jerzy Kukuczka

“Mountains are a place where you can exchange life for endless bliss.” © Milarepa Shepa Dorje

“Mountaineering in my life was not just a sport that gave me a good mood. This is a worldview that affirms simple truths, celebrating good things: courage and comradeship, the desire to learn and the desire to help, dedication to purpose, the meaning and joy of daring, sensitivity and amazing courage.” © Boris Delaunay

“Loving means not looking at each other, but looking together in the same direction. Comrades are only those who, holding on to the same rope, climb a mountain peak with common efforts and in this find their closeness.” © Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“Winter high altitude climbing is a sophisticated way of suffering in the mountains.” © Wojtek Kurtyka

“Winter expeditions are the only mountaineering without the struggle of “stars”, rivalry, competition with each other. The mountain in winter is so difficult that everyone rallies for a common goal in an atmosphere of partnership, mutual assistance and goodwill. This atmosphere has now been preserved only in speleology and in winter Himalayan ascents. This is no longer possible to find in the summer in alpine ascents.” © Wojtek Kurtyka

“The essence of winter Himalayan ascents is overcoming your own pain caused by cold, discomfort and other reasons. You can believe me, it's true. I believe that winter Himalayan ascents have little in common with the essence of real mountaineering, which begins where ordinary tourism ends, and a person is forced to overcome technical difficulties with the help of his hands. In winter you cannot take off your mittens, so there is no question of difficult technical climbs. The combination of very low temperatures and 8000 m makes true mountaineering impossible.” © Wojtek Kurtyka

“The maxim that there is either only good things about the deceased, or nothing, plays an extremely negative role in understanding the disaster that occurred. The unembellished truth of what happened is the last gift of the departed to the living. We often ignore it (the gift), supposedly for moral reasons. But this is really immoral.” © Igor Komarov

"Freeride - martial art, the stake in which is life.” © Igor Komarov

“Going first is a special job. Here you are alone with the wall. Your comrades are with you in spirit, but there is no one nearby. Only the rope pulls you down a lot, connecting you with the world of people, and the rock hangs above your head. Often the next section of the route seems impassable, and there is no longer any confidence in success, and anxiety hangs over the wall like a cloud. Then, like a convenient shelf, you grab onto the thought: you’ve made up your mind, accepted the challenge - so drive away doubts, turn off everything extraneous from your consciousness, focus on the goal, you have to get through” © Vitaly Bodnik

“Victory in mountaineering generously gives a person the joy of victory over himself. And she also makes your teammate your brother, and this male brotherhood is stronger than granite" © Vitaly Bodnik

“Many people are afraid of mountains, but this is due to their ignorance. The unknown is always scary. The mountains are, of course, formidable, but they are not treacherous or malicious. Hurry to the mountains! A discovery of pristine nature awaits you. Self-discovery awaits you." © Vasily Kovtun

“The Caucasus Mountains are much more beautiful, their peaks are pointed; the abysses separating the peaks from each other give the impression of immeasurable depth.” © Douglas Freshfield

“The strongest fear arises in those moments when you realize that you are still alive and well, but you are already finished... that is, the brain manages to fully realize that you have practically no chance of surviving.” © Valery Rozov

“I have no respect for people who rope walk using a harness. I don't really like the fact that if you fall you die, but that's part of what they call tightrope walking." © Philippe Petit

“The snow is hiding and waiting. Waiting for our mistake. One has only to cut the layer, maybe even shout loudly, and the slope will disappear from under one’s feet. We know how it happens: first a quiet crackling sound, then a rustling sound, and then a roar. Just a second. Before you have time to look back, you will be buried under many meters of cold and heavy snow, like cast iron.” © A. Kuznetsov “Below Svaneti”

“...From edge to edge, along the entire horizon, in glaciers and snow there is the great Tien Shan system. It all burns with the golden-orange and red tones of sunset, and Khan Tengri floats above like a giant faceted ruby ​​set in the dark turquoise sky.” © Semenov-Tien-Shansky.”

“The forces of untamed nature - wind, clouds, storm and cold - find their most powerful expression on mountaintops, endowing the heights with the aura of wild nature in its most extreme and undisturbed state.” © Bernbaum Edwin

“Snow is snow no matter where it falls, and avalanches speak the universal language of violence...” © Montgomery Otwater

“...After all, as long as there are mountains, there will be traces on their slopes, there will be notes on the tops... This is the law of man’s struggle with the mountains. And in everyone’s life, sooner or later there comes a moment when he must meet nature face to face and feel that man, even in small numbers, is stronger than it. Humanity has existed for twenty thousand generations, of which nineteen thousand eight hundred generations - ninety-nine percent - fought with nature without the help of electricity, machines and science. In today's generations there is still quite a bit of disturbing blood left from their ancestors. The word “feat” means an action that not everyone can accomplish. But those who go to the mountains, as a rule, do not think about the feat, dreaming only of enjoying the incomparable feeling of pioneers, they want to see entire countries lying at their feet under the clouds, so that the shadow of the hand stretches for hundreds of kilometers and the purple sky is towards them a little closer than to other people... And for a while, let the voices disappear from the whirlwind and leave people alone with the mountains. For mountains and people are a continuous battle.” © Evgeniy Iordanishvili

“I only know three real sports: bullfighting, mountaineering and auto racing. The rest of the sports are games.” © Ernest Hemingway

“In the struggle with the peak, in the pursuit of the immensity, a person wins, finds and affirms, first of all, himself. In the extreme tension of struggle, on the verge of death, the Universe disappears and ends next to us. Space, time, fear, suffering no longer exist. And then everything can be accessible. Like on the crest of a wave, when during a furious storm a strange, great calm suddenly reigns within us. This is not spiritual emptiness; on the contrary, it is the heat of the soul, its impulse and desire. And then we realize with confidence that there is something indestructible in us, a force that nothing can resist.” © Lucien Devi

“They don’t walk in the mountains with their feet, they walk in the mountains with their heads.” © folk wisdom

“A bad road is one from which a traveler will definitely fall, and his body cannot be found. A good road is one from which a traveler falls, but his corpse can be found and buried. And a beautiful road is one from which a traveler may not fall” © folk wisdom

“Remember, traveler, in the mountains you are like a tear on the eyelash of Allah.” © folk wisdom

“Everest is a bird that flew higher than other birds.”© folk wisdom

“The man at the very top of the mountain did not fall there from the sky.” © Confucius

Quotes about travel, expeditions and wildlife

“An expedition is a preparation” © Amundsen Roald

“Willpower is the first and most important quality a skilled researcher. Only by knowing how to control his will can he hope to overcome the difficulties that nature places in his path.” © Amundsen Roald

“What is still unknown to us on our planet puts some kind of pressure on the consciousness of most people. This unknown is something that man has not yet conquered, some constant proof of our powerlessness, some unpleasant challenge to mastery over nature.” © Amundsen Roald

“Forethought and caution are equally important: foresight is to notice difficulties in time, and caution is to prepare most thoroughly to meet them.” © Amundsen Roald

“It’s bad to linger around one fire for a long time: your eyes get tired of looking at the same thing, your ears become deaf. We have to go. The turbidity does not stick in fast water..."© Ulukitkan

“When people ask me why I go on this or that trip, I usually answer: I don’t know, but that’s really true. After all, if I knew what awaited me, I would not have set off.” © Jacques Cousteau

"Only impossible missions succeed." © Jacques Cousteau

“It’s a dark, cold night, wrapped in a blanket, I sit motionless on the shore and listen to the right whales letting out fountains. They are very close. Although it is difficult to distinguish their massive forms in the dark, I know that they swim not far from the shore, sometimes touching the bottom in shallow water with their bellies. But they jump out about two hundred meters from me. Their huge bodies fall into the water with a terrible noise. In the intervals between splashes, the deep breaths of whales can be heard: for me, this powerful choral concert is the most beautiful music in the ocean. This is how my first night in Patagonia goes..." © Philippe Cousteau

“I believe that there are neither heights nor depths that a person could not achieve with the help of Reason.” © John Hunt

“Polar night, you look like a woman, amazing, beautiful woman with the noble features of an antique statue, but also with its marble coldness. On your high brow, clear as pure ether, there is not a trace of sympathy for the petty sorrows of the human race, on your pale beautiful cheeks - not a trace of feeling... I am exhausted by your cold beauty, I thirst for life, warmth, light! Let me return either as a winner or as a beggar - It doesn’t matter to me! But let me go back and start living again" © Fridtjof Nansen

“With our experience, we should agree that true wealth cannot be achieved with the help of an army, it cannot be won with the help of a sling or a bomb, which is capable of flying around the world fifteen times and hitting us, and not just our enemies, in the back of the head. True valuables are found on enemy soil and not in a bank. You can’t put them on scales and see them with the naked eye, because you have to look for them inside your own head. What is stored in the soul cannot be taken away.” © Thor Heirdal

“Borders? I haven't seen any. True, I heard that some people have them in their heads.” © Thor Heirdal

“Really, why make a fuss about something that’s been done? I never just remember the past. There is too much to do in the future! © Edmund Hillary

“Many of us in our youth try to prove to ourselves that we are capable of overcoming unusual situations. For me, such a situation was autonomous life in the forest. I soon realized that I could kill an animal or a bird, use mushrooms and berries, but why? Everything turned out more challenging task: you need to shoot what you see, turn what you see into visible images. So I’ve been photographing nature all my life.” © Vadim Gippenreiter

“Romance is necessary in a person’s life. It is this that gives a person divine strength to travel beyond the ordinary.” © Fridtjof Nansen

“Victory awaits the one who has everything in order, and this is called luck.” © Roald Amundsen

“Winter is not an enemy, it is a great helper, throwing bridges across the seas, covering the bare rocks of the mountains and smoothing out chasms. And as soon as the sleigh ride makes the trip possible, you are irresistibly drawn into the distance, new plans are born, and you just wait impatiently for the frost to get stronger.” © Knud Rasmussen

“...if water is more important than food, then hope for a person is more important and necessary than water.” © Alain Bombard

“Let us thank those who did not believe us! Without them we would never have known the joy of victory!” © Alain Bombard

“Victims of legendary shipwrecks who died prematurely, I know: it was not the sea that killed you, it was not hunger that killed you, it was not thirst that killed you! Rocking on the waves to the plaintive cries of the seagulls, you died of fear.” © Alain Bombard

“One intelligent white man should be at the head, two whites, invited to the expedition because of their courage, determination, physical endurance and loyalty to the leader, should form the arms, and dog drivers and other local residents should form the body and legs of the expedition. For the peace of mind of men, it is necessary to take women on the trip; besides this, they are in many respects as useful as men, and in strength and endurance they are often almost equal to them.” © Robert Peary

"The romance of distant travels, contemplation surrounding nature, immersion in it is combined in me with the desire for sports records" © Marina Galkina

“Travelling alone without any means of communication is an exciting thing. It is without means of communication, I emphasize. There is an undoubted share of risk in this and the thrill of sensations and fullness of life are guaranteed. Everything depends on you, on your strengths, your skills, your dexterity. You are given the right to choose any path, you have the last word. You feel real freedom. Only on such a journey do you completely break away from civilization, merge more closely with nature, understand your insignificance and defenselessness” © Marina Galkina

“Frankly speaking, one must be born a traveler, and one should venture into the distance only in the years of full strength” © Peter Kozlov

"The most favorite place both in Russia and in the world - this is Kamchatka. The nature there is unique. In general, I am more interested in traveling around the country than abroad....a person cannot love without knowing. All our lives we love the place where we grew up, because we absorbed it from childhood, grew up with these trees and this grass. Very few people know Russia - I discover it for myself every time.” © Yuri Senkevich

“Rivers are a gift to us. Water is a metaphor for the passage of time, and everyone has their place in the flow.” © Doug Ammons.

“In order to see the stars, every year you need to move further and further from home...” © Yuri Vizbor

“My worst enemy on the path to my goal is fear. I am a very cowardly person and, like all cowardly people, I strive to overcome my fear. Victory over fear makes me happy... I want to be stronger than my own fear, for this I look for danger again and again.” © Reinhold Messner

“I am Sisyphus, that all my life I can roll up my stone, that is, myself, without reaching the top, since there can be no top in knowing oneself.” © Reinhold Messner

“I don’t remember when I freed myself from religious feelings, I only know one thing: since then it has become more difficult for me to convince myself that I am not alone in the world, not abandoned.” © Reinhold Messner

“I am my own homeland, and my banner is my handkerchief” © Reinhold Messner

“Minimum superfluous, but vitally necessary – in double quantity, that is my motto” © Reinhold Messner

“I do everything with passion - except bureaucratic matters, which I hate” © Reinhold Messner

“Adventures give us joy. But joy, after all, is the purpose of life. We do not live to eat or make money. We eat and earn money so that we can be happy. This is the meaning of life, and this is what it is given for.” © George Mallory

“I traveled around the world to ski. Fly with the wind. Laugh with the gods." © Iyuchiro Miuro

“People give up when it’s hard, dogs give up when they die.” © Naomi Uemura

“Deep diving is always solo, it’s comparable to climbing eight-thousanders and all responsibility lies only with you. Complete self-sufficiency." © Pascal Bernabe

“Travelling has been, is and will be. And in a hundred years, and in two hundred, and in a thousand. They will change - they will become different, only the word will remain the same. You can no longer be like Miklouho-Maclay or Sedov. Continents and islands are not being discovered now. You discover your spirituality." © Fedor Konyukhov

“For a true traveler there is only one goal - to overcome difficulties. And only one desire – to break through the horizon.” © Nick Tendi

“Why do people love wild places? For the sake of the mountains? They may not exist. For the sake of forests, lakes and rivers? But it could be a desert, and people would still love it. Desert, monotonous ocean, untouched snowy plains north, all the deserted expanses, no matter how sad they are, are the only places on earth where freedom lives.” © Rockwell Kent

“The sparkling immaculate whiteness of the high mountain snows, untouched and perhaps unattainable; the beauty of the mountains, covered with a foggy haze, because of which you cannot distinguish whether it is earth or a cloud; distant, clear, impassive mountains - all this symbolizes the highest aspirations of the spirit. The universe appears to people in all its glory and grandeur, they are seized with anxiety, the thirst for adventure characteristic of their ancestors awakens in them, and they leave... It is not at all a conscious choice that forces people to exchange comfort and safety for adventure and adversity - most likely, there is an impulse more active here deeper and stronger than consciousness and reason" © Rockwell Kent

“Speleology requires a lot of patience, and not impotent patience, but the persistence of long-term effort.” © Norbert Casteret

“A climber can study the mountain of his dreams, looking at it through binoculars, and with his eyes outline the route of ascent among the paths and rocks. The caver, when making assumptions, is almost always mistaken due to surprises and incredible difficulties. underworld. Alas! All his hypotheses are shattered when faced with insurmountable obstacles. Collapses of vaults, impassable cracks, dead ends, lakes, siphons every now and then mercilessly stop the speleologist on his path.” © Norbert Casteret

“It’s uncomfortable underground. Everything is harsh, sometimes ominous, always majestic and full of threats. Of course, this is why humans and animals instinctively avoid and fear the underworld. Only a few adapt to this realm of death and develop an interest, even passion, in exploring it. These are speleologists." © Norbert Casteret

“Abyss, you almost destroyed me and maybe you will become my grave! But how many sublime moments of happiness you gave me among all the suffering! Here I learned the delight of searching and the intoxication of discovery.” © Michel Cifr

"On geographical maps there are no longer vast white patches, nor are virgin lands to be found. Only three areas are still of interest for research: space, but only a select few have access there, then the ocean, which provides limitless space for scientists, and, finally, the bowels of the earth with its caves, grottoes and abysses. This is my world." © Michel Cifr

“For a speleologist, the most sticky, viscous, unsteady clay that covers everything with its layer is never just dirt, but always remains a noble substance with which he is completely saturated, which covers him from head to toe, and sometimes turns him into ice, but which ultimately account to such an extent inevitable and familiar that it becomes, as it were, classical, characteristic feature caves All smeared with clay, this time, let’s say, just mud, doesn’t the speleologist have the right to proudly say, like Cyrano de Bergerac: “I am morally elegant!” © Norbert Casteret

“All extreme activity is a tribute to life. After all, how can you say “I love you” to your life if you spent it all on the couch?” © Den Osman

“I've always been different. People look at me and say “you're crazy!” . But what I do, I do for myself, not for anyone else. I'm not suicidal. When you sit on the couch, staring at a box, you die. I feel most alive when I'm face to face with my fears." © Den Osman

“Man goes to the mountains again and again, just as man goes into the stormy sea again and again, because only among the wild elements of nature can man challenge his deep abilities, as our ancestors did in ancient times. Modern life is a type of artificial existence. Most of the real qualities are simply turned off as unnecessary, and most of us don’t even imagine that they actually exist, we don’t know the full power of our own capabilities. And it is in the wild that everyone’s true essence comes out.” © Abram T. Collier

“What's the point of buying a car to drive on asphalt? Where there is asphalt, there is nothing interesting, and where it is interesting, there is no asphalt.” © Strugatsky brothers

“When a journey is aimed at exploring a country that is difficult to access, when it introduces us to nature that was known only from superficial and inaccurate descriptions, then the difficulty disappears...

A person is able to overcome many of the inconveniences of life... he will find black bread soaked in spring water tastier best dishes, if only he is inspired by curiosity, if the goal he wants to achieve arouses a keen interest in him.”

© M.A. Kovalevsky, " Geographical definition places and magnetic observations in the Northern Urals." St. Petersburg, 1853.

Quotes about ecology

“We float toxic chemicals and all sorts of waste into the ocean, just like a careless housewife sweeps garbage under the carpet.” © Thor Heirdal

“We don’t notice the air, but without it we suffocate. So it is with living nature. Only when we lose it completely will we realize that we have lost...” © Nikolai Sladkov.

“At the beginning of the 21st century, reckless faith in progress seems utopian. We know that the resources of our planet are partially depleted, we know that we are disturbing the balance of both the climate and the subsoil, and now we ourselves, compared to those who lived before us, are also depleted in our own way - we do not know how to endure pain, endure hardships, work tirelessly.” © Leonid Kruglov

Quotes about running

“I ran at night once or twice a week because... After working as a mason, I didn’t have the strength to train at all.” © Pasang Dawa Sherpa

“Running every day is not a luxury, but a way of life. And I can’t give it up just because I’m so busy with other things. If other things were a sufficient reason for me, I would have stopped running a long time ago. The reasons that motivate me to run are one or two, but the reasons to end this activity are a carriage and a small cart. The only thing that remains for me in such a situation is to continue to care for and cherish those who are “one or two too many.” © Haruki Murakami

“Suffering is everyone’s personal choice.” © Haruki Murakami

Quotes about the Urals (Ural Mountains)

“The Ural Mountains are the most noble in the entire Empire and by vocation are understood to be those that the first descriptors called Hyperboreans and Repheas. The Tatars call them the Urals” © V.N. Tatishchev, 1744

“... the highest mountains extend to its very shores, the peaks of which... are completely devoid of any forest and almost even grass. Although they are in different places have different names, but are generally called the Peace Belt. And in the possession of the sovereign of Moscow you can see only these mountains, which the ancients probably thought were Riphean or Hyperborean.” © Sigismund Herberstein 1549 (Indicator of the way to Pechora, Ugra and the Ob River)

“Stone rivers flow of immeasurable depth, the solid drops of which form huge blocks” © P.P. Anosov

Until 1812 this ancient city in Jordan was lost for modern world. The magnificent Petra, carved directly into the rocks by skilled architects, amazes with the incredible play of light and shadow: local temples, local houses and passages in the rocks are made of red sandstone, which creates this effect. Among the red sandstones of the desert, the city carved into the rock looks like a real fairy tale.

- this is a journey that is never forgotten. But how did ancient people manage to build such a majestic structure?

It is known that by the first century AD, the Nabataean tribe became the most skilled masters of stone work. The name Petra itself is translated from Greek as stone.

The whole city seems to be hidden in the narrow Siq canyon. You can get to the territory of Petra only through the gorges located in the north and south. From the east and west the city is reliably protected by steep cliffs, the height of which reaches sixty meters.

The famous Pharaoh's Treasury Al-Khazneh was originally a temple of the goddess Isis. This mausoleum is considered the greatest example of ancient architecture - architects still do not understand exactly how the Nabataeans were able to hew such an incredible structure without the use of scaffolding.

One more thing amazing building located outside the city limits. Ad-Dair - The rock temple is a monumental building that is entirely carved into the mountain.

For centuries, trade routes brought Petra incredible amounts of money. From the outside Persian Gulf caravans loaded with spices flocked here, and on the way to Damascus, merchants brought precious stones and silks to Petra. The discovery by the Romans of the sea route to the East was the beginning of the end of the great city: the land trade in spices dried up and Petra gradually became empty.

Alas, only these architectural monuments remain of the former wealth and splendor of the Nabataean Empire. near the walls of what was once the greatest city in the region, Bedouins graze their goats, and enterprising Arabs give rich Americans rides on camels.

Only for the Bedouins, Petra is not a miracle, but a simple business. Every year, millions of tourists from all over the world flock to Jordan just to see this magnificence with their own eyes.

"Okoyemy Przemysl"

Annotation

In his “History of the Russian State,” in the second chapter (narration based on the Nestorov Chronicle), the outstanding Russian writer - sovereign, mentor, that is, Pushkin’s spiritual father Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin very clearly described the origin of the Slavic tribes.

« Many Slavs, - Karamzin believed, - people of the same tribe with the Poles who lived on the banks of the Vistula settled on the Dnieper in the Kyiv province and were called Polyans from their pure fields. This ethnicity disappeared in ancient Russia, but his name became the common name of the Poles, the founders of the Polish state». « From the same tribe,- wrote Karamzin, - There were two brothers, Radim and Vyatko, the heads of the Radimichi and Vyatichi: the first chose a home on the banks of the Sozh, in the Mogilev province, and the second on the Oka, in Kaluga, Tula or Oryol. The Drevlyans, named so from their forest land, lived in the Volyn province. It is still generally accepted to believe so. And the neighbors of the Vyatichi tribe on the eastern side of the Oka and Zhizdra river basins were a tribe of skilled Krivichi».

On the map of modern Russian Federation territory Kaluga region a multi-petalled carnation is sewn into the mosaic of the Central Federal District between 54 and 55 degrees north latitude and 36-37 degrees east longitude. About 4 percent of the region's area is occupied by the territory of the Przemysl Territory, located on the banks of the Oka River south of the regional center.

According to the map of modern Kaluga province, the location of the municipal formation “Peremyshl District” is in the east of the region. East and delight are words that are similar in sound structure in Russian. The sunrise in the eastern sky brings delight to the farmer. Therefore, the eastern edge of the earth is the most beautiful. This is how it is in the land of Kaluga: its Przemysl region is delightfully beautiful!

The author of a magnificent 1998 book about Przemysl, a quiet regional town in the Kaluga region, was Sergei Fedorovich Pitirimov, a man of active modesty, a wise, and therefore lyrical poet alien to all rhetoric and PR. He spoke with sincere love about his cultural predecessors. This is the forest professor of Toursky, the playwright and translator Lyubimov, the son of the police chief and the most educated encyclopedist of the Diamonds.

In 2004, I participated in the elections to the Legislative Assembly of the Kaluga Region in the Przemysl electoral district. During the pre-election period, a documentary essay “The Blue-Eyed Oka - Russian Shores” was written as propaganda material, published in 2004 in the form of a propaganda brochure by the printing house “Poligraform”. The book “The Outskirts of Przemysl” is the fulfillment of a “candidate’s” duty to voters from the banks of the Oka.

In this story, I tried to complement my senior comrade and friend from the Kaluga Writers' Organization, S. F. Pitirimov, who has been in Eternity since 2000. My contribution is information about the modern administrative structure of the municipality, a story about Tsiolkovsky’s travels on a bicycle to the village of Korekozevo, as well as personal memories of the outstanding lyricists of Oka - Sergei Pitirimov, Anatoly Kukhtinov, journalist and poet Alexei Zolotin.

Chapter 7. Eye of Culture

Traveling through Przemysl

Moon on the right side

Alexander Pushkin left the Russian people not only brilliant poetry, but also wonderful prose: dramas, stories and notes of a traveler. In the first chapter " Travels to Arzrum” he wrote: “From Moscow I went to Kaluga, Belev and Orel, thus making 200 extra miles, but I saw Ermolov».

Perhaps, driving through the Przemysl fields, the poet once again indulged in the sadness of loneliness among the vast expanses, and the poems sounded in his heart:

I was coming to you: living dreams
A playful crowd followed me,
And a month since right side
Accompanied by my zealous running.

A.S. Pushkin’s stay in the vicinity of Przemysl is not noted anywhere, but he could not bypass them on his trip of 1829, because his path ran along the old Kaluga-Kozel highway.

The Kireevsky brothers, Ivan Vasilievich and Pyotr Vasilievich, N.V. Gogol, A.K. Tolstoy, F.M. Dostoevsky, V.A. Zhukovsky, F.I. Tyutchev, A.N. Maykov, repeatedly visited Przemysl. A. A. Fet, A. N. Apukhtin, M. M. Prishvin, who visited the Optina Monastery. L.N. Tolstoy stayed in Przemysl while making a trip to Shamordino and Optino.

Memory of a warm earth

The wonderful Russian writer I. S. Sokolov-Mikitov called his homeland, the Przemysl region, “Warm Land” and always remembered it with the deepest tenderness:

« The modest nature of the places where I spent the first years of my adult life did not shine with lush beauty. There were no majestic mountains and rocks, surrounded by clouds, spectacular, seductive for artists, stunning panoramas. It was an ordinary Russian expanse: fields, forests, villages with thatched and wooden roofs overgrown with velvet moss, with dim small windows from which pale faces of people looked out. You drive and drive, sometimes for dozens of miles, and the landscape around you doesn’t seem to change, almost doesn’t move.».

« From my mother, a Kaluga hereditary peasant woman, I borrowed a love of words, restlessness of character, from my father - a love of nature, a lyrical cast of soul.

Trips with my father, walks in the forest, fishing in a quiet pond overgrown with water lilies, every cherished corner of which is still memorable to me, my father’s stories and fairy tales left an indelible impression. Along with dreams of travel, my father awakened in me a passion for hunting.».

“In the fate and tastes of every person, his childhood, the environment in which he lived, was brought up and grew up, is of great importance. The words we hear from our mothers, the color of the sky we saw for the first time, the road running into the distance, the overgrown river bank, the curly birch tree under the window of our home remain forever in our memory.”

Ivan Sergeevich Sokolov-Mikitov lived a long and difficult life. He was born on May 17 (29), 1892, and died on February 20, 1975.

Distant birds

In August 1950, the poet Bulat Shalvovich Okudzhava came to these regions. In Shamordino, at a rural school, he taught Russian language and literature, and visited Przemysl and the surrounding villages many times. Impressions of his stay on the banks of the Oka were vividly reflected in the poet’s first book, “Lyrics,” published by the Kaluga Book Publishing House in 1956.

Bulat Shalvovich says:

Creative meetings with prose writer Vladimir Koblikov, poets Valentin Ermakov, Mikhail Kuzkin are memorable for the workers of the region.

Oka-Russian

A Khakass by nationality came from the banks of the Yenisei to the banks of the Oka to live, serve and write poetry. Mikhail Kuzkin-Voronetsky spent the last years of his life in the village of Andreevskoye, where he spent many hours in all seasons tramping along the high coastal terrace, hypnotized by the sublunar view of the Oka Valley. He loved this region with all his heart and sang of it.

Kuzkin is a wonderful master of lyrical descriptions of the nature of the Kaluga region and passionate relationships with women.

...We are sailing to Tarusa along the Great Oka,
And stays behind us
Kaluga is a little alien in the distance,
Overwhelmed by hot forests.

The bend in the sun is so sharp,
And the shore recedes so gently...
It creeps among the oak trees like the smoke of a fire,
Winding narrow road.

... The river distance is bright and deep.
And the world is so open today! Right,
I never thought that Oka.
She can be so full and majestic.

I look at the shores from under my hand
And in a daze I think for a short time:
How would you live, Russia, without the Oka -
With the Volga alone?

...I remember how towards the end of summer
in the middle of the day, when the heat has already grown stronger,
Behind the yellow forests of the Oka region
The shifted steppe opened up to the sky.

The field road attracted me...
Sitting on a stone under a pine tree
I sat there for a long time, remembering
How the heat flowed around the curves of the hills.

...And it’s clear that this steppe world brings tears to tears
I’m dear to you because I’ll be soon
green whirlwind of sunny birches,
running along the highway along the slope.

And so, when I forgot about the vanity,
I look at the forest - is it near or far away?
It’s as if I’m looking at the appearance,
In which I will soon find eternity.

And so I kiss the red slope
Lands with oak trees in the sunshine,
What will be saved for future times?
The mystery of my existence.

Translator Lyubimov

Theater town

The people of Peremysh are rightfully proud of their wonderful fellow countryman, the outstanding writer and translator of fiction Nikolai Mikhailovich Lyubimov, whose books adorn the shelves of many libraries, instill in readers a loving attitude towards the Russian word, strengthen a sense of devotion to their fatherland, and develop a subtle artistic sense.

In the Lyubimov family, who lived in the provincial town of Przemysl, there was a strong tradition of giving books for birthdays and name days.

In his biographical life story, Lyubimov says:

« Our town has long been a theater town. From 22 to 1930, in winter and summer, rural teachers, high school students, and college and university students who came on vacation staged performances under the direction and with the participation of the teacher of Russian language and literature Sofia Iosifovna Melypova, who later moved to Moscow and was awarded an order for her pedagogical activities. Red Banner of Labor and Order of Lenin. And almost every performance of this community of amateurs became an event in the life of the town; he shook us up, enriched us, awakened both thought and feeling, and cultivated artistic taste. There was usually a delay when the performance started. The “gallery” stomps and yells: “It’s time!” But then the prompter darted into his booth, the curtain slid in both directions, and before the eyes of the suddenly silent spectators, art was born, far from perfect, but genuine, in which it was impossible not to believe, the ingots of which I still pull out from the bottom of my memory. The scenery changed slowly, the intermissions dragged on ungodly, and when the audience went home at dawn, the housewives were already driving the cows into the herd. And then for several days you live as if in a dream: your inner hearing is the echo of voices, before your eyes are figures and faces. And my soul is sad: I was so looking forward to this evening, and now it has already sunk. You are consoled by the fact that a month will pass - and again you will be seized by the inexplicable, like any magic, holy spell of the Theater, under the influence of which from ancient times humanity irresistibly sought to fall.

Already the repertoire of this permanent group gives an idea of ​​its literary culture and daring. Here is some list of the plays staged: “The Inspector General” and “Marriage”, “Our People - We Will Be Numbered!”, “Poverty is not a Vice”, “Profitable Place”, “Forest”, “Talents and Admirers”, “It Shines but Doesn’t Warm”, “Tsar Fyodor Ioanovich”, “Krechinsky’s Wedding”.

Sofya Iosifovna played mainly everyday roles, revealing tenacious powers of observation and a sense of humor. Her best role was the old witch Evdokia Antonovna in Days of Our Lives. Oh, how scary she was!.. Especially in the third act, when, persuading her own daughter to sell herself to von Rencken, she shouted at her:

- Slut! Rubbish!.. Who will buy you something like this? There are hundreds of people like you on the boulevard!»

« I developed a taste for theater as a child in Przemysl.“,” recalled N. M. Lyubimov.

Telephone communication with the future

When in 1923, in the regional center, telephone connections were made to Soviet institutions, a little theater fan began to climb into the office of the father of one of his friends, where he acted out a “conversation with Kachalov,” admired his talent, and declared his love for the famous artist.

From a Moscow student, a talented provincial grew into a metropolitan cultural and art figure and theater critic. Translator of foreign classical literature. In his creative practice, Lyubimov maintained close ties with the very same stage masters with whom he had imaginary discussions on the phone during his childhood years in Przemysl.

On the pages of his book of memoirs, “Bygone Summer,” N. M. Lyubimov gave strikingly apt characteristics of the actors and their work. For example, Leonidov “pierces the audience through and through with his gaze”, Knipper-Chekhova was “an example of internal external grace”, Tarkhanov amazed with “ideal comprehension of stage art”, Pashennaya with “ultimate expressiveness”, Massalitinova with “mastery of transformation”, Moskvin - “ destruction of tradition."

The famous writer Veniamin Kaverin highly appreciated the work of the translator Lyubimov: “ Lyubimov translates in such a way that his personality is visible behind the book. You need to be a little akin to Rabelais himself, so that behind the book we see the author, his laughter and bitterness, his spiritual scope, his irony, his faith in man».

Sage from Korekozev

Peasant intellectual

Ask any resident of Korekozevo: “What is your village famous for?” The answers will vary. For example:

— It is the longest in the Kaluga region - five kilometers.

“The first post-war order bearers appeared here, and the chairman of the collective farm, Prudnikov, was a Hero of Socialist Labor.

- Buttercup Monastery - according to legend, the oldest in our area.

— The first hydroelectric power station in the region.

— This is the only village in Russia where three members of the USSR Writers’ Union come from.

“And for me, Korekozevo is also famous for this,” recalls one of them, the famous Kaluga journalist and poet Alexey Petrovich Zolotin, “that a wonderful old man, a sage, a true rural philosopher Fyodor Kuzmich Pitirimov lived here. In November 1964, the newspaper “Znamya” under the heading “Meetings with interesting people“published my article about him, “Evening at Fyodor Kuzmich’s.” This is how I introduced him to readers then:

« I have long been planning to write about Fyodor Kuzmich Pitirimov, this “very correct person,” as fellow villagers put it, a communist, chairman of the Korekozevo Village Council. He is one of the organizers of the collective farm “First of May”, stood at its helm for eight years, and when the farm became larger and Grigory Nikolaevich Prudnikov was elected chairman, Fyodor Kuzmich worked honestly and conscientiously as a private. For the last three years he has chaired the village council.».

The article describes one evening spent with Fyodor Kuzmich. Then there were several more - and all are memorable. I will try to remember and convey some fragments of conversations with this amazing person. Like all modest people, he flatly refused to talk about himself: “ I don't have anything special. You shouldn't have thought of that..."About fellow villagers - please.

Stories from Fyodor Kuzmich

The memory of Pitirimov Sr. has preserved a lot of stories.

— Here is Strekozy Nikita Nikitich. He’s older than me, but he works and doesn’t lag behind other young people. From the first days of the collective farm - wherever they send you. Doesn't require any awards or posts. And a man of amazing honesty. Goes dear, if he notices a board or some kind of rope, he won’t be lazy, he’ll definitely take it to the sawmill, or to the stable... And in general, a very interesting old man.

Or another story by Fyodor Kuzmich about fellow villager Vladimir Ivanovich Nikonov:

— Also a very, very original grandfather. I admired his hard work. After the war, he mainly worked at the crossing. So, I remember, I was walking early one morning, around four o’clock, and decided to look at the fields across the river. I didn’t expect to meet him on the ferry at this hour, I thought he was sleeping at home. I looked into the ferry hut and there really was no one there. I looked and he was fidgeting around the boat, making something. We started talking.

— And for me, my brother, - Vladimir Ivanovich shared the news, - there are moose.

— What moose?

— And such. Every evening, when it gets a little dark, they come out of the forest and in this place they swim across the river. That's where they graze. At night they feel good there, at ease. And in the morning - again into the forest. They just swam across before your arrival... I don’t tell anyone about them: they’ll scare them away, but they’re already used to me...

— What quality do you value most in a person?? — I once asked Fyodor Kuzmich.

— Eh, here you are tempting me into philosophy. Each person is a page in a big book - history, and they are all interesting in their own way. As the ancient Romans said, suum kuikve - to each his own!.. In short, a person must sow good, sow “reasonable, good, eternal.” It’s important to me what a person gives to people, that’s how I judge how useful he is. And finally, honesty. This is what I value most in a person...

— Often we had a conversation about poetry, - Alexey Zolotin continued his story, - and every time I lost the feeling of something familiar, everyday: as if in front of you was not an elderly collective farmer who graduated from five classes of an old rural school, but a specialist philologist. Fyodor Kuzmich did not just quote Pushkin and Lermontov, Byron and Heine, Horace and Virgil - he freely supported his thoughts, views on poetry and literature in general with their words. So it is not by chance, but by the law of succession, that one of the sons of Fyodor Kuzmich, and in total he had five children, Sergei Pitirimov, became a famous Russian poet, a member of the Union of Writers of the USSR. But Sergei Fedorovich became famous in his declining years, and in his youth he dreamed of geology and just tried his hand at poetry. I must say, not without the approval of his authoritative father.

Another conversation with Fyodor Kuzmich was remembered by his son’s friend and poetic peer Zolotin. With a smile of bright emotion, Alexey Petrovich, also a popular writer far beyond the borders of his native Przemysl region, remembers Pitirimov Sr. and his old man’s tales.

— Somehow I came across a book, - Fedor Kuzmich shared. — It was written in the seventeenth year, even before the revolution. It examined very important problems - how to bring Russia out of ruin. The author—I don’t remember his last name—proposed developing the economy in the east of the country. Everything seems to be correct. But how did he propose to do this? Recourse to the help of foreign monopolies. What would be left of Russia then? It would have been swallowed by predators. That's the thing - it seems like the person was caring for the interests of the Motherland, but no. Loving the Motherland is not the same as talking about this love...

“It’s as if this conversation was taking place today,” Zolotin recalled, “it’s so relevant. Nowadays there is a debate again about how to boost the country’s economy: with the help of foreign monopolies or independently? It seems that the first point of view wins. But, I think, the warning of Fyodor Kuzmich Pitirimov also sounds useful: if only Russia would not be swallowed up by predators...