The last month of summer in Russia is superstitiously considered black – the month of disasters
Julia CHICHERINA, singer:
- I love August, I was born in August, the color is fire!
Zakhar Prilepin, writer, politician:
- August is my children, whom I can stroke on their heads, the sun, a lot of water around and the opportunity to look, smile, be silent. August – the murder of my best friend, warrior, exemplary Russian man Alexander Zakharchenko. August is the starting point for the collapse of the USSR, a terrible catastrophe that I will never forgive its perpetrators. Such a colorful August.
Alexander ZAKATOV, Director of the Chancellery of the Russian Imperial House:
- Do not attach importance to the dark sides of life. There were many sad events in other months, the saddest – in February 1917. In August, people celebrate the Transfiguration of the Lord and the Dormition of the Most Holy Theotokos. August is a gathering of honey and apples, so you need to think about the good, because thoughts are material.
Eduard BOYAKOV, artistic director of the Moscow Art Theater. Gorky:
- For me this month is a happy color, thank God, there is an opportunity to be with my family, on vacation, to escape from the hustle and bustle. The end of summer is the beginning of the harvest, which implies that everyone should receive their harvest as they deserve.
Vasily VOLGA, Ukrainian politician, ex-deputy of the Verkhovna Rada:
- Colors of disappointment. In August, the day of Ukraine’s Independence. I am disappointed with what we have built in Ukraine in 30 years: a state where nationalism has become the main ideology, and the Russian language and the Russian people have been declared enemies, where many sectors of the national economy have been destroyed, and the population is the poorest in Europe.
Roman PLYUTA, head of the “Orthodox Union”:
- For me, August is blue – the sea, the sky and, of course, the color of blue berets that guard it all!
Yuri LOZA, artist:
- August is the last sunny month, summer is inexorably ending. And this thought will haunt me for the next 30 days. I will, of course, try to get everything from August! But I know for sure that in September I will regret that I didn’t pay enough, I didn’t eat enough fruit and I didn’t get enough sunburn …
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