“What kind of peacock is this? Don’t you see we’re eating?!” “What a peacock!”, or Lunch break in the Hermitage Don’t you see, I’m eating

Administrative reform, For example. Because reforms, as we understand and implement them, are a wonderful time for fattening up resource fat, reassigning structures and facilities, shadow privatization, as well as clearing out unwanted personnel and installing reliable ones. And all the Mavlins in Crimea would have died if, taking advantage of the long absence of Prime Minister Vasily Dzharta and amid the roar of “European-quality renovation” of the central executive authorities, someone had not once again tried to show “concern” for the Crimean palaces, museums and nature reserves.

The adventure that will be discussed below is still in development, but has been stopped for now by the efforts of the public. At the Crimean level. What the reaction from Kyiv will be in the coming days is very curious, since it will directly depend on whose supreme support the performers have secured.

First, about the objects of interest. There are six of them, and this is half of all historical, cultural and palace and park reserves in Crimea. And half is golden: Livadia Palace Museum, Alupka Palace and Park Museum-Reserve, Bakhchisarai and Kerch Historical and Cultural Reserves, Koktebel Ecological, Historical and Cultural Reserve “Cimmeria M.A. Voloshin” and Historical and Cultural Reserve “Kalos-Limen” . Today, like decades ago, they are under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Culture and Arts of Crimea. The idea of ​​their reassignment to the Republican Committee for the Protection of Cultural Heritage along the chain came from Kyiv, from the State Service for the Protection of Cultural Heritage, which was now included in the structure of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Ukraine. Events had to develop rapidly. For the first time, the idea of ​​​​reassigning the “calling cards of Crimea” was publicly voiced at a joint meeting of the Civil Service and the republican committee on November 24, and, judging by the prepared drafts of the relevant orders, it will take place on December 25. It seems that three circumstances could have forced the horses to drive this way: the upcoming administrative reform, the layout of budgets and the still unclear situation with the health of the Prime Minister of Crimea.

The transfer of museum-reserves is categorically opposed by both the administration of the objects themselves and the largest public organizations - the Association of Museums and Nature Reserves of Crimea, Ecology and Peace, Slow Food Crimea, the trade union of cultural workers and other associations that have already appealed to the President and Prime Minister requesting that the process be stopped immediately.

What's the problem? - the reader has the right to ask. The Recommittee is like a specialized department, even if it protects our heritage. Moreover, Kyiv is not taking anything from Crimea. These arguments are also given by the heads of the Civil Service and the Reskomittee for the Protection of Cultural Heritage. Moreover, based on recent changes in the relevant law, which establish that the powers of cultural heritage protection bodies, “according to their competence, include management, in the manner prescribed by law, of historical and cultural reserves of state or local significance.” As Deputy Prime Minister of the Autonomous Republic Ekaterina Yurchenko told ZN, the initiative comes precisely from Kyiv, and the appeals also stated that “now a single vertical for the management of nature reserves will be built throughout Ukraine, and it is through the State Service that their financing will go.”

The counter-arguments of opponents of the transfer include a different interpretation of the new norm of the law: yes, the bodies for the protection of cultural heritage have such a right, but it is not exclusive. And most importantly, all of the above-mentioned reserves are, first of all, museums, and first of all they are subject to the Law “On Museums and Museum Activities”.

“All of them have become nature reserves around existing museums,” says Vyacheslav Peresunko, chairman of the Association of Museums and Nature Reserves of Crimea. - This is the fundamental basis of their activities, and the bulk of the entire museum fund of Crimea is stored there. And the bodies for the protection of cultural heritage do not have the authority to manage such objects; they do not have the appropriate structures, personnel, or practice in the museum business.”

The museum workers' version of the attempt to reassign the most famous tourist sites is simple - money and entry into the territory.

“Crimean museum-reserves are self-sufficient. They earn 36 million UAH a year, and the share of those who suddenly needed to be reassigned accounts for 28 million. Yes, Crimea can and should earn more in this area, but let’s create new facilities. Let's create “Scythian Naples”, return it from the State Administration and open the Yusupov Palace for visits! By the way, Vasily Dzharty promised this. But no - everyone wants to manage what was created with such difficulty before them!” - says V. Peresunko.

The second concern, again almost traditional for such reorganizations, is associated with the inevitable change of the old leadership of palaces-museums and reserves and the placement of their personnel. The scheme is ideal. There is no need to force anyone to resign or look for a reason to fire them - everyone will write statements themselves, because the reorganization will require the signing of contracts with a new “manager”. Is it possible to find a replacement for Konstantin Kasperovich, who won the Vorontsov and Massandra palaces and their parks from bandits, presidents and comrades in uniform? Museum workers will say: no. Officials will talk about effective management and the need for people with new approaches. I think that a lot of such managers will now be left without work. Due to the ongoing optimization, the state service for the protection of cultural heritage no longer exists.

At the first reading of the presidential decree, it even seemed that the reform had lost this body - the Civil Service was not mentioned either among those still alive or among those reorganized, and it was not on the list of abolished ones. For several hours we tried to establish the fate of the central body, which is entrusted with colossal powers and endowed with enormous opportunities to influence the level of corruption in the country (any developer will tell you this). The Ministry of Justice explained that now it will simply be a department within the Ministry of Culture. The minister remained the same - Mikhail Kulinyak. And the chairman of the Crimean Recommittee for the Protection of Cultural Heritage, Sergei Tur, under whose wing the palaces-museums and nature reserves were to be transferred, is his long-time business partner.

No, I read the income statement provided during the first appointment of Mikhail Andreevich to the position of minister, published in “Mirror of the Week”. And the commentary too: “If you believe the texts of income declarations submitted by members of the new Cabinet of Ministers, then at least one of them, Minister of Culture and Tourism Mikhail Kulinyak, lives below the poverty line. In particular, in the declaration submitted by Mikhail Kulynyak upon taking office, it was noted that his total annual profit amounted to 2,895 hryvnia and 45 kopecks. At the same time, he does not have bank savings. The area of ​​the apartment in which he lives is 32 square meters. True, the new minister is the owner of a Mercedes ML 400 CDI.” In M. Kulinyak’s declaration there are also dashes in the line about the amount of contributions to the authorized funds of enterprises. And for some reason, in his biography published on the ministry’s website, there is no information about working in business structures. Although the biographical certificate submitted upon appointment indicated one company - “U.P.K.-Resource”, where the future Minister of Culture worked as a director. At the same time, the management of Ukrainian Industrial Complex LLC, which M. Kulynyak, being a co-founder, has headed since registration in 2001, is not mentioned. Judging by the modest data in the minister’s declaration, the money invested by the founder M. Kulynyak in the authorized funds of VIP-energo LLC, Krymneftegazprom LLC, as well as through the participation of the already mentioned Ukrainian industrial complex” in the creation of CJSC “Krymneftegaz” they went to the wind. Although three of these companies had a very profitable activity all over the world - oil production. Through Krymneftegazprom and Krymneftegaz, the paths of Mikhail Kulinyak and Sergei Tur crossed. The latter is also their co-founder, directly and through another structure. He or his brother Denis are the managers of the enterprises. Therefore, it is not at all strange that one person involved in oil and gas became the Minister of Culture, and the second (the Crimean government was reformatted with the arrival of V. Dzharty) suddenly became the deputy head of the Reskomittee for the Protection of Cultural Heritage. And after the local elections, Sergei Tur headed this body. And I immediately decided to expand the scope of my activities. But this is so to fill the gaps of socially significant information about high-ranking civil servants. We are introducing European standards!

What's the result? After a heated discussion of the prospects for relocating palaces-museums and nature reserves to a department completely unsuited for their activities at a meeting of the board of the Ministry of Culture and Arts of Crimea, at which representatives of public organizations also spoke, Deputy Prime Minister Ekaterina Yurchenko decided to take a break and personally delve into all the advantages and disadvantages of reassignment.

“Today we are not saying yes or no,” Ekaterina Yurchenko told Mirror of the Week. - I am actively starting to study the feasibility and consequences of such a transfer. Because we must understand: if this happens, it will only be if the situation in this area changes for the better. For the better - both in terms of the protection of cultural heritage monuments, and in organizational and managerial terms. And it should be better for the museum-reserves themselves; the result should be for them, and not for the Ministry of Culture or the State Service and the Reskomittee.”

There will be no quick and uncalculated decision, assures the Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Crimea. According to her, lawyers and economists are working on the issue; there are many technical points related to the constituent documents, the budget for the next year is being prepared. “I heard the opinion of museum workers and public organizations, and we will hold a large meeting with their participation on this matter,” promises Ekaterina Yurchenko. “And most importantly: the final decision will be made only after the chairman of the government, Vasily Dzharty, returns to his duties.”

Well, it looks like there will be a continuation...

Valentina SAMAR

This story happened in the summer of 2010. Almost immediately, Katya and I (at that time a successful student at VolSU) wrote a note about what happened (cry from the heart!) and tried to publish it in the faculty newspaper. But, since we only play at “democracy,” nothing meaningful came of it... Let me note that we didn’t have much hope. And recently I met one person at the university, and I immediately remembered the situation of that summer. I decided that it's better late than never...

So, we will talk about the activities of the international department of VolSU.

We could tell you about a wonderful journey to mysterious China, about its hardworking inhabitants and about the peculiarities of the climate and fauna of the glorious city of Changchun. But we won't tell. Because we were not there, despite the fact that we were on the magic list. Now let's talk about everything in order.

Exposition (commencement)

VolSU has many advantages, but we especially need to highlight cooperation with universities in other countries. Over the years of study, many students, with the help of our university, were able to travel abroad and experience studying at local universities firsthand. Jilin University is on the long list of universities that are friendly to us. This year a team of our students went there. The lists of lucky winners were compiled long before the trip and adjusted. Lucky were those students who showed themselves in creative activities during the academic year and would not have had time to graduate from university by the summer holidays. The only condition is that the student pays for his own travel.

Plot development

Dasha: January turned out to be warm - I spent half the month in Sochi, where the VolSU national team and I performed at the international KVN festival. One of those days, I was pleasantly surprised by the news: there is an opportunity to be among the participants in the delegation of our university to one of the foreign universities collaborating with VolSU. Upon arrival, it turned out that this university was Jilin University, located in Jilin province in northeast China, and the delegation would go there in the summer. But how can we find out more precisely – what, how and when? An acquaintance, who was also informed about the possibility of a trip, advised me to contact the international cooperation department. However, after a visit to the “international department” even more questions appeared in my head... It turned out that I was still on the list, and that we were paying for the trip ourselves. But such points as: the timing of the trip, its program, the cost of travel tickets, the date of the general meeting of the delegation members to resolve organizational issues (including travel/flight), and most importantly - when all this will be clear - remained behind a veil of secrecy . The department staff gave me advice to visit them “more often,” which I tried to heed. They also advised me to apply for a foreign passport as soon as possible. passport, since at any moment there could be a need to urgently send documents to China...
Summer was approaching. My passport had been ready for a long time, but exact information about the trip had still not appeared. No promised meeting of all “delegates”, no deadlines... On my next – on advice – visit to the “international department”, one of the employees, completely unexpectedly for me, expressed surprise that I was even on the list. And he also said that I was terribly lucky, in fact I don’t deserve this trip, and I was included in the lists only for the reason that I come so often and actively find out the state of affairs... “Probably wanted to praise me like that,” I thought I decided to come back another time. This “other” time, the girl Margarita, who was in charge of the trip, explained that such a delay in information was due to the “silence” of the Jilin University side. She also read out to me several names from the list of lucky winners and asked if I knew any of the proposed people. Among them was Katya. I was asked to inform Katya about this. I was terribly happy myself and hastened to make her happy...

Katya: June. The session is in full swing. From Dasha, with sparkling eyes, I learn that I am supposed to go to China in July. Of course, this news made me happy! It’s not every day that they offer to go abroad, and even with the condition of paying for accommodation and food! I went to the International Cooperation Department for information. The dear girl Margarita said that soon all documents will be sent to China for visas. She did not provide deadlines for collecting documents. But here’s the problem: I don’t have a foreign passport. passports, but it is done within a month. The trip is scheduled for early July. "Do not have time. It’s a pity,” I thought and gave up my dreams of adventures in China.
A couple of days later, Dasha is happy to announce that the trip has been postponed until the end of July. It’s strange that the department employees didn’t call those who didn’t have enough documents for the trip - now time allows a lot to be done! In addition, now I have found out that the disadvantage is foreign. I wasn’t the only one who suffered from passports.
The desire to see the country of one of the world's most ancient civilizations forced us to quickly visit the Migration Service. Shining with hope in our eyes, with the news that the documents will be ready within a month, we look into the already familiar “international department”. Because The timing of sending the documents was not known at that time; we agreed that the department employees would inform us about them as soon as everything became clear.
Dasha and I began to make inquiries about the university, about the exchange program, about ways to get to the place - none of the employees of the “international department” had such information, and if they did, they did not want to share. Using the website workandtravel.ru, we found student plane tickets to China costing only 27 thousand rubles, began to calculate expenses, found out weather forecasts, and looked for photographs of the university we were going to visit.
Less than three days had passed when, absolutely by chance, having met Margarita in the corridor, we learned that we were late with our passports.
I express my deep gratitude to the international relations management department of Volgograd State University for their attentive attitude to their work and timely information to students.

Climax

Dasha: The meeting of trip participants never took place. Passports for visas were sent only on July 9. A day later I was informed that I needed to take money for a plane ticket (45 thousand rubles) to the tour. the company that was responsible for finding tickets for the entire group in such a short time. I was surprised by the amount, which was so different from what Katya and I found together. The company explained to me a complex scheme for purchasing tickets - due to the short time before departure, they are bought one at a time. This figure may turn out to be even higher, because there is a possibility that someone will not receive a visa. The news about this will reach a person only at the time of departure from Moscow, on July 20. In case of sudden cancellation of a plane ticket, only a third of its cost is reimbursed. When they called me to inform me about tickets, I also asked whether there would be a group meeting - “Is it necessary?” - was the answer. All I could do was shrug my shoulders. But a couple of hours later another girl called me with the information: “The meeting at the station is cancelled.” - "Which?!" - “Were you not notified?” - "No!" - “So you misunderstood something.” Shock.
After this conversation, I learned through friends that the WHOLE group decided to go to Moscow (from where the plane departs to China) by train, but it turned out that there were no more tickets for this train. After which the unlucky organizers gave orders to get to the capital on their own.
My mother, having learned about the situation, called the evil department with the question “Why is the paperwork being processed so late?” The answer was no longer surprising: “We cannot answer such questions. No one can".

Denouement

Dasha: Having assessed the level of organization of the trip, I decided to refuse it. Despite my mood and my persistent preparation for this trip (I even managed to open an account in one of the international banks to avoid financial problems), the summer was not ruined - I spent the remaining month and a half at sea. And in September, both Katya and I went on vouchers from the trade union committee of VolSU to one of the boarding houses in Dzhubga, where we had a great time. But that's a completely different story...

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Kazan researcher Bulat Nogmanov introduces readers of the Kazan publication Realnoe Vremya with his observations about how the culture of the ancient Ottoman Empire penetrated into the life of modern Turkey. In today's column he talks about the palace food culture and cuisine of the Sublime Porte.

Since the arrival of the Turks in Anatolia and the adoption of Islam occurred almost simultaneously, we can talk about the unconditional influence of the religious factor on the formation of not only the food culture, but also on the social life of the Ottomans as a whole. Prophet Muhammad (SAW) said in one of his hadiths that one should eat no more than twice a day. There is also a hadith in which he says that the best of people are those who benefit other people. From this point of view, it is noteworthy that in the imarates (charitable houses where travelers and all those in need could find food and shelter free of charge), which were maintained by various sultans of the empire, state funds and wealthy citizens, people were usually fed twice a day. For example, in the Emirate of Sultan Murad I, 2,000 people were fed daily, in the Emirate of Bayazid II, 1,000 people. In the Istanbul Emirates alone, up to 30,000 people were fed completely free of charge every day.

Of course, there are some differences between modern Turkish cuisine and palace cuisine from the Ottoman Empire. The palace kitchen is harmonious combination Central Asian, Balkan, Middle Eastern (Islamic world), partly Mediterranean and European gastronomic culture. It is worth noting that many recipes have not survived to this day, because Ottoman chefs did not like to reveal professional secrets. However, with the help of various researchers and enthusiasts, based on the notes of ancient travelers, archival and library materials of the Ottoman palace, the recipes of dishes are now being restored, which become decorations on the menus of various Istanbul and capital restaurants.

In the kitchen of Topkapi Palace. Photo planeta-mir.ru

Some statistics and noteworthy facts:

The palace kitchen in the Ottoman Empire was called "Matbah-i Amir".

The kitchen of the Topkapi Palace, built by Fatih Sultan Mehmed in 1475-1478, occupied an area of ​​5,250 square meters. m. In addition to places for preparing food, there were storage rooms, rooms where cooks and staff lived, a fountain, a mosque and a hammam.

The palace kitchen itself consisted of eight parts, with separate areas for food preparation, where cooks and staff worked, specializing in the preparation of individual dishes.

In total, a group of 60 cooks and 200 assistants worked in the kitchen, who specialized in flour products, simits, and the preparation of pilaf, kebabs, poultry, vegetables and sweets. Ashchybashi was in charge of all this.

Food for all the inhabitants of the palace, from the padishah to the lowest-ranking employee, was prepared in the palace kitchen

The padishah used the services of a special kitchen, which was called “Kushkhane” and was located in a part of the palace called “Enderun”.

Until 1826, the kitchen staff consisted mainly of Janissaries.

In the palace, on ordinary days food was prepared for 4,000 people, and on special days up to 10,000 people were fed.

What do they cook in the palace?

As Turkish researchers note, Ottoman cuisine is very similar to the cuisine of Aleppo, therefore we can say that it is similar to Syrian cuisine. Unlike today, the Ottoman Empire favored lamb over beef. Chicken was consumed rarely and mainly in the summer months. It is known that Sultan Suleiman Kanuni was very fond of hunting, in which up to 2,000 people took part, so venison and meat of various birds often appeared on the “sofra” of the emperors.

It is known that Sultan Suleiman Kanuni was very fond of hunting, in which up to 2,000 people took part, so venison and meat of various birds often appeared on the “sofra” of the emperors. Photo j-times.ru

Products for the palace in Istanbul were mainly delivered from three provinces - Rumeli, including the northern Black Sea region, Anatolia and Egypt. In addition, delivery came from the islands in the Aegean Sea and from Damascus.

It was previously believed that fish was not consumed as often in the Ottoman Empire, but recent research into the records of the great Ottoman traveler Evliya Celebi shows that fish was eaten in sufficient quantities. In the Aegean and Marmara seas there were even special backwaters where fish were caught only for the emperor’s sofra. There are studies according to which it turns out that Sultan Mahmut II was very fond of swordfish, and according to the notes of the same Evliya Celebi, Sultan Fatih Mehmet was very fond of lobsters, shrimp and caviar. Gallomania did not bypass the Ottoman court either, so they served fish with French sauces and ate fish in the French style.

The most popular drinks were water, tea, coffee and sorbets. It is noteworthy that some researchers write about a drink that was quite popular in the palace, which was called “Tatar bozasy.”

It is known that one of the most interesting and extraordinary personalities of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the 34th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Abdulhamid II, drank two cups of coffee at one sitting.

One of the most famous sorbets in modern Turkey is called “Demir Hindi” (iron turkey), but its real name is “Temr-i Hin-di”. This plant, from which sherbet is made, grows in Egypt.

On special occasions, the Ottoman padishahs organized the distribution of food for the common people. In Turkish it was called “canak yagmasi”, which can be translated as a shower of plates. The meal usually included pilaf, lamb and zerde (a sweet, jelly-like rice dish flavored with saffron).

You can talk a lot about food with pleasure, but it’s better to try it once than to hear it a hundred times. In order not to be unfounded, I bring to your attention a recipe for stuffed melon, Fatih Sultan Mehmed’s favorite dish. Try cooking. Don’t forget to send photos of the finished dish to the editor, although you can also send the dish itself).

Stuffed melon

Required products: melon 1 pc.

For filling: onion - 1 pc., 2 tbsp. l. butter, a handful of almonds, a handful of pistachios, a handful of dried currants or raisins, 400 g minced veal, 1 Coffee cup large rice, a pinch of dill and a pinch of parsley, a pinch of salt, a pinch of black pepper, a pinch of coriander powder, a pinch of cloves.

For melon sauce: 1 tbsp. l. butter, half a pinch of dill, half a pinch of parsley, half a glass of water.

Peel the onion and cut into cubes. Melt two tablespoons of butter in a frying pan. Add onion and fry until Pink colour. Add the almonds to the onion, which you have peeled and kept in hot water. Add pistachios, peeled in the same way.

Add the raisins, having previously made them swell in hot water, and stir. Add minced meat and continue frying. Add rice, previously boiled for 5 minutes in hot water and strained. Chop the dill and parsley and add to the minced meat. Add salt, pepper, coriander, cloves and mix well. Cut off top part melon, then divide it into two parts, remove the seeds and use a spoon to make indentations in the pulp. Place the pulp on a separate plate.

Place the prepared filling into the melon and bake in the oven for 20 minutes at 180 degrees. For the sauce: finely chop the melon pulp, melt 1 tablespoon of butter in a frying pan, add the chopped pulp, add dill and parsley. Fry a little and add water. Bring to readiness over low heat.

Bon appetit!