That imbecile grandiose who does not know Lourie Vladimir Mayakovsky once proclaimed At the beginning of the century the name of this composer and musician thundered no less than the names of Prokofiev or Stravinsky The star of the Stray Dog Cafe a colleague of Khlebnikov Miturich Annenkov and Mandelstam after the revolution he headed the music department of the Peoples Commissariat for Education becoming the main one in the country for music At the same time his affair with Anna Akhmatova took place They lived together for only a few years until Arthur Lourie decided to leave for the West They were able to write to each other again almost half a century later Peoples Artist of Russia Svetlana Kryuchkova and Peoples Artist of Russia Valery Kukhareshin were filmed in the film Artur Luries music was performed by the XX century ensemble under the direction of Maria Khodina grand pianos Sergei Oskolkov and Daniil Yekimovsky soprano Victoria Evtodyeva
