Storm biography

Famous people: Boats Alexey. The ambitious adventurer-hooligan with infinite charm, congenital aristocratism and bad character, Alexei Sergeyevich Storch generally corresponded to the standards of the XIX century, the XX and even more so XXI. By combining the images of Onegin, Pechorin and Vronsky, the storm himself lived his life, like the hero of the novel. But with the final, his author, perhaps, hurried ...

The grandson of the philosopher Spet on the TV channel "Culture" two years ago was aired by the four -part documentary film "The daughter of the philosopher Spet". Mom Alexei Sergeyevich. This woman, who has a phenomenal memory and a well -made speech, begins in the picture a story with a detailed description of the history of her family. In the vast crown of the Family Tree of Alexei Sergeyevich, you can find the names of many prominent personalities: N.

Guchkov is an elected head of Moscow in years, A. Ziloti is a talented pianist and conductor and, finally, S. Rachmaninov is one of the greatest Russian composers. This is only a maternal line naturally, he was also a native of the environment of the pre -revolutionary intelligentsia. One of his distant ancestors, Andrei Karlovich Storh initially-Baron Henry Friedrich von Storh, academician and first vice-president of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, secret adviser, became famous for his fundamental work on political economy and numerous works about Russia.

One of his seven children, Alexander Andreevich, lieutenant of the Grenadier Regiment, took part in the uprising of the Decembrists. As a sophisticated intellectual Alexei Storch, capable of reading the poets of the Silver Age, could appear in such a family - it is not surprising, it is surprising how he became a hooligan and a motherland, whose childhood was not so much at school as at the stable ...

Jockey childhood Alexei Sergeyevich was born on September 12, and a year later his father passed away. Relations with the stepfather did not work out, and the childhood of Alyosha Storch was overshadowed not only by the harsh military years, but also by tense relations with loved ones. It is not surprising that the guy tried to find a “second house”, the place where the surrounding would have become “his own” for him, and the time spent there would bring joy ...

And these searches led a young storm at the hippodrome. I must say that the love of horses in the heart of little Alyosha originated and got stronger before he ended up at the hippodrome. Urusova, the best hippological work of pre -revolutionary Russia. It turned out that young Alesha got a unique book with an autograph, behind which an outstanding medical scientist was chasing for several years, Professor V.

Learning who had run through his path to rarity, the professor wanted to get acquainted with the young horses lover and eventually became his teacher. So fate as if by the hand led the bar to the horses and put it in the saddle. At the age of 12, Alyosha began to ride. He received the title of master of sports two years before - at the age of 18, and soon began not only to speak himself, but also to professionally train horses.

In childhood, he was engaged in an art school, and already in the first children's works he showed the gift of a great artist-revaller. However, in full the talent of Alexei Sergeyevich was destined to open not through a pencil, brushes and colors, but cameras. In the USSR, in principle, advertising was not dense, and there was simply no high -quality products of the world level.

Here we must make a reservation: Alexei Storch never officially worked anywhere, except for his membership in the Union of Artists of the USSR - he received all his very considerable by Soviet standards, working under contracts. The lifestyle, forcing him to come to work at 9 in the morning and leave at 6 pm, he considered the lot of losers. A person, in his opinion, should be free from formalities and conventions.

The most amazing thing he himself succeeded: he did not accept any official structures, did not serve in the army, did not be in the party, while he could freely move around the country in numerous creative business trips, and for the first time he escaped beyond the “iron curtain”, to France. Liberty and a kind of nihilism of Storch manifested themselves in appearance.

His son, Andrei Alekseevich, recalls: “Alyosha was always chic: he knew how to make an effect on others, primarily on women. For this, he had his own formula: the man should smell pleasantly, be perfectly shaved and carelessly, but stylishly dressed. He always dressed "past the trend", preferring the classic European style: trousers with ideal arrows, tweed jackets, neck shawls, and this image crowned an invariable checkered cap or cowboy hat.

This was reflected in his attitude to life. He always said to me: "You should not be like everyone else. On the contrary, you should not be like everyone else. And you should never be ashamed that you are different, you should be proud, and then everyone else will envy you and try to repeat it."Love for the sharpness, temper, intransigence of Alexei Shterch did not like many men, but for the same qualities, flavored with the charm of the creative intellectual, he was adored by women.

Until recent years, the storm dinjuations, it seemed, not considering it necessary to hide it. And, probably, he could afford it, because in his life there was always one main love: with his second wife, Nina Pavlovna, Alexei Sergeyevich lived for more than 40 years, and she had sufficient wisdom to be able to forgive him. In the year, she died literally in his arms, and this was a terrible shock for the storm.

After that, he decided to radically change the surrounding environment, sold the house in Tarusa, where he spent the last years of her life and, probably, one of the happiest - his own, and went to the country, which had long attracted him to his richest hippo culture - to France. The French dream of not a single foreign language Alexei Storh did not learn. Yes, and did not strive: he believed that to communicate with foreigners, he was quite enough for a couple of dozens of English words and two languages ​​- Russian and Russian swearing.

Which, indeed, did not stop him from communicating with French hippodrome horsemen in the vicinity of Paris, which he visited daily. The storm shot jumps in France not for the sake of entertainment - he worked on his next project, the photo album “Born for the Triumph” Nes Pour Triompher. In it, he tried to talk about French jumps as he saw them himself - not from the usual angle, but as if from the inside.

And, of course, without words: the whole narrative is carried out exclusively through photographs, except for entry, there is not a line of text in the book - “The Horsemen will understand me,” the author explained. In the process of hunting for unique shots, the storm was often fond of so much that he was even on the race track before the horses rushing towards.

Having received more than one warning at several France and France, the storm ultimately lost accreditation and was forced to remove from the stands. Of course, he at first scary terribly with the employees of the Hippodrome Administration, but in the end proudly declared: “Yes, okay. I will take off the stands from the stands better than these frogs ... ". Aleksey Sergeyevich worked on the book for a long time, thoroughly and inspired.

He himself developed a concept and a layout, took the photos one of a thousand, published test versions several times. Finally, he announced that the book was ready, and handed it over to print. From the printing house, the album was supposed to reach the prize of the triumphal arch in early October, but the storm left this world a month earlier Alexey Sergeyevich had no French citizenship or residence permit.

According to the visa terms, he could be in the country no longer than 90 days, so he regularly flew to Russia, actually living in two countries. His next visit to Moscow was already nearing completion, and he was eager to fly to Paris in order to finally get the treasured circulation of his book. And out of habit, he did not pay attention to the “sores” - this time to the pain in the throat, which bothered Alexei Sergeyevich for several August days.

Only when the throat was swollen so that the storm almost could not swallow, did he decide to see a doctor. He was taken to the ambulance to the Botkin hospital, assuming inflammation of the salivary gland, but everything turned out to be worse. An urgent intervention of the maxillofacial surgeons was needed, and at the night of the August, Alexei Sergeyevich was transported to the south of the city hospital, immediately to the operating table.

But the doctors could not cope with the launched phlegmone submandibular region, there was a septic shock, and the morning for the storm did not come ... Trying to tell everything about Alexei Sergeyevich Steveh on several pages as pointless as retelling poems. Perhaps about such episodes of his life as the first jump and the completion of the Jockey and Coaching career, communication with Witt and acquaintance with Vladimir Shamborator, an unexpected meeting with the absorption of Sergei Filatov or his many photo albums, finally, about cooperation with our magazine should have been told in more detail.

May be. And for someone who does not know the storm ... However, there are probably no such people among the horsemen.