Михалковы и Кончаловские. Гнездо элиты

A book about the phenomenon of the Russian elite - the Mikhalkov and Konchalovsky family. About their role in our culture and about their genealogy since the time of Ivan the Terrible. You can treat them differently - not like them or their work, not share views, disagree with statements on various occasions - but their talent cannot be denied. Refuting the rule that “nature rests with descendants,” everyone among the Mikhalkov-Konchalovskys is artistically gifted - from the great painter Vasily Surikov to his great-grandsons, world-famous film directors Andron Konchalovsky and Nikita Mikhalkov, not to mention their father, fabulist Sergei Mikhalkov . For many they are idols, but for the authorities they are always, under different rulers and even under different social systems, favorites. Invariably favored by any government, constantly holding on to the top of Russian Parnassus...