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MOSCOW, October 27 A memorial plaque for the author of the play “Love and Doves” Vladimir Gurkin was unveiled near the Sovremennik Theater in Moscow, the correspondent reports.
«»The opening of this plaque was very important for me, because dad is buried very far away. His grave is far away in Siberia, in the Irkutsk region, where his parents are buried. Not everyone will get there. And here anyone passing by can see and find out that Gurkin — author of the play “Love and Doves”. After all, no one knows screenwriters and playwrights. They know directors and actors, but screenwriters remain in the shadows,” said the playwright’s daughter Ekaterina Gurkina at the opening of the memorial.
In the house on which the memorial plaque was installed, Gurkin lived and worked for many years.
“»The difficulty of the work was that such a big man had to be depicted on a small piece of bronze. We took “Love and Doves” as a basis. Such a composition was born with a portal that goes to him and from him. He turned out to be such a serious, good-natured man. In all the interviews with him that I watched, some kind of light emanated from Vladimir Pavlovich,” said the author of the memorial, Alexander Sviyazov.
The Sovremennik artists, friends and colleagues of Gurkin, including People's Artists of Russia Sergei Garmash and Nikolai Chindyaykin, came to the opening of the memorial plaque.
Garmash noted the symbolism of the first snow in Moscow on the day of the opening of the memorial plaque to the Siberian Gurkin. He also remembered how he and the playwright’s family lived in a hostel on Pokrovka. «When we first moved in here, there was a closet. Then Gurkin removed this closet and made it his office. It was about 3.5 square meters in area. It was his writer's room. He created there, he joked there, with «He had fun, it was great with him. He wrote a lot in this apartment… We all gathered in the kitchen, opened the windows, Vova played the button accordion — it was an incredibly fun life, our wonderful youth,» the actor recalled.
Vladimir Gurkin was born on September 13, 1951 in the village of Vasilyevo, Gorokhovsky district, Perm region. He was a playwright, screenwriter, member of the Russian Writers' Union, author of the famous play «Love and Doves», staged at the Moscow Sovremennik Theater in 1982. The performance was popular with audiences for many years. It was he who inspired Vladimir Menshov to make a film of the same name.