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China is an ancient state with a distinctive culture, positioned as a kind of standard that needs to be imitated. For many centuries, the inhabitants of the Celestial Empire have formed their own views on sex and erotica, as evidenced by old manuscripts and accompanying drawings.

Entertainment of wealthy Chinese women

Wealthy Chinese women have invented their own rather strange way of meditating. To do this, they were looking for young guys, always innocent, who were not yet eighteen years old. For a solid monetary reward, rich ladies offered young men to indulge in love joys with them. A fair question arises: what is strange and shocking here? What followed was the most brutal part of their sexual perversion. Innocent guys who agreed to take part in the entertainment of rich ladies were placed in the water so that only their head and neck remained at the top. Young men were fixed to pre-prepared devices that were installed in the water right above the head of the unfortunate guy. The ladies sat on the installation from above so that their naked genitals were above the face of a young innocent man. According to ancient manuscripts, such a strange and cruel perversion of rich Chinese ladies gave them pleasure.

Women were pleased that the innocent young man did not have the opportunity to take his eyes off the picture that opened before his eyes and they had no choice but to "see what was happening."

Although these facts do not have scientific confirmation, but, analyzing the style of modern perversions, we can conclude that the homeland of most of them is China or Japan.

Shocking perversions of wealthy Chinese men

In their many palaces, the emperors with their courtiers arranged sexual orgies, indulging in various bizarre pleasures. And they explained such fun by the fact that in this way they contribute to the harmony between female (yin) and male (yang) energy.

Entertainment of ancient Chinese rulers

A prime example of the customs of the imperial court is King Zhou Xin of the Yin Dynasty. Regular exercise and participation in fights allowed him to keep himself in excellent physical shape.

But not only martial arts with wild animals and fights with the best warriors interested the royal person. The queen, three main wives, wives of the second and third ranks (nine and twenty-seven, respectively), and numerous concubines lived in the Zhou Xin palace. In addition, the staff of the royal palace consisted of about three thousand girls who took part in festive events and feasts, where they were given the opportunity to show what virtues and skills they possess.

The king lined up courtiers around the perimeter of the arena, where he demonstrated his sexual exploits to them. He could walk around the arena with a roasted veal leg in one hand and a two-liter bronze goblet full of wine in the other.

Meanwhile, in his arms, wrapping her legs around his waist, there was a naked girl, straddling his manhood. The woman moved up and down his erect cock, she moaned and made voluptuous sounds. This picture brought the audience into indescribable delight.

Love pleasures of the Chinese emperors of our era

However, the luxurious life of ancient Chinese rulers cannot be compared with the way of life of some emperors who lived in a later time.

One of them is Emperor Yandi, who belonged to the Sui dynasty. He was born in 581 and died in 618 AD. He began his reign with the construction of one of the greatest palaces in the world, for which about two million workers were recruited from all over the empire. Outside, the palace was finished with the best marble of various colors. And its interior decoration was striking in its luxury. The Imperial Palace was located in a walled area of ​​the park, the area of ​​which was 120 square kilometers. In the center of the park there was an artificially created lake, along the banks of which sixteen palaces for concubines and court ladies were built. Emperor Yandi preferred to engage in amorous pleasures in boats, swaying smoothly on the waves. The emperor went for walks in the park, accompanied by thousands of court girls. Throughout the park, at a short distance from each other, there were pavilions enclosed by a low fence.

Emperor Yandi's sexual desire could suddenly arise, and then he chose several girls to make love to them in one of the pavilions. All the other women settled around, humming and playing tunes that pleased their master.

As soon as the palace was completed, the emperor began the construction of the Great Canal, connecting north with south along the waterway. Palaces were also built on the banks of the canal, where Yandi stayed during water travels. The imperial fleet included junks, in which about a thousand wives and numerous concubines followed the emperor.

The tireless ruler, who adored love joys on the waves, wanted to feel something similar on land. For this, a circular road with a wavy surface was built. The wagon, passing over such a surface, swayed, which brought even greater pleasure to people who indulged in love pleasures in it. By order of the emperor, "seven wonderful chariots" were built. Outwardly, the chariot looked more like a coffin. In each of them was a concubine, waiting for the overlord to pay attention to her. The emperor liked to go for a walk in a chariot early in the morning to enjoy sexual games with his concubines. Throughout the day, he made love to every girl he chose.

Conclusion

China is one of the oldest states in the world, with its own original culture, which is fundamentally different from the culture of the West. This is clearly seen in such an important and intimate sphere of human life as erotica. Based on the above, it can be seen that Chinese men and women have been looking for new ways of sexual pleasure since ancient times. Sometimes these were cruel entertainments and shocking ordinary people with their perversity.

Federal Agency for Education of the Russian Federation

GOU VPO Saratov State Technical University

Institute of Social and Industrial Management

Faculty of Social Systems Management

Department of Tourism Business Management

Course work

By discipline Sociology of Leisure

on the topic: "Leisure of the rich and the poor"

Completed: Art. cafe MTB

gr. SKS-31

Godjaeva E.B

Checked:

Otnyukova M.S.

Saratov 2009

Introduction

1.1 Leisure of the poor

1.2 Leisure of the rich

1.3 Tourism as an indicator of social status

Conclusion

Application

Introduction

In the hard times that have come, it has become difficult for people to choose how to spend their leisure time. The crisis is forcing people to work two to three times more for the same wage, if not less. A person does not have time for himself at all. He gets tired and more and more leisure takes a passive form. As Les Heywood would say: leisure has come to be understood as residual time. The difficult economic situation in the country sharply singled out two poles, two strata: the rich and the poor. But at any time it is natural for a person to rest. But how he will spend his time depends on many indicators, including the standard of living.

This topic is relevant in our turbulent times. Crisis - crime is on the rise. The people need to be occupied with something, otherwise it will turn out as in the saying: all vices come from idleness. How to direct the emotions and energy of people who are depressed by the current situation? The purpose of this work is to study the opportunities for spending leisure time by the polar strata, as well as their leisure preferences, i.e. what opportunities people have for spending their leisure time and how they really want to spend it.

The object of this work are rich and poor people. The subject is the leisure of these social strata.

To solve the goal, the following tasks were set: to understand what the concepts of rich and poor come from, i.e. to determine who are the poor and who are the rich, to consider how these categories of people spend their leisure time, to consider tourism as an indicator of social status.

In the second half of the work, a specific study will be carried out, on the basis of which categories of people and their leisure preferences and real opportunities will be identified.

Chapter 1 The Leisure of the Rich and the Poor

To begin with, it is necessary to determine who are the poor and who are the rich. The concept of social stratification will help us with this. Social stratification is the differentiation of some given set of people (population) into classes and groups in a hierarchical rank. It finds expression in the existence of higher and lower strata. Its basis and essence lies in the uneven distribution of rights and privileges, responsibilities and obligations, the presence or absence of social values, power and influence among members of society.

Social stratification is a set of vertically arranged social strata, in particular, the poor, the wealthy, the rich. Inequality and poverty are concepts closely related to social stratification. Stratification is based on inequality. The poor and the rich are not equal in their incomes, prestige of their kind of activity, political weight. In other words, they have different ranks, i.e. place in the social hierarchy. We can say that social stratification describes the stratification of people into classes, or we can say that it indicates how people are distributed in social space in accordance with their hierarchical ranks. The basis of stratification is the uneven distribution of rights and privileges, responsibilities and duties, power and influence.

Inequality characterizes the unequal distribution of society's scarce resources—money, power, education, and prestige—between different strata or strata of the population. The main measure of inequality is the number of liquid values. This function is usually performed by money (in primitive societies, inequality was expressed in the number of small and large cattle, shells, etc.).

If inequality is presented in the form of a scale, then on one of its poles there will be those who own the largest (rich), and on the other - the smallest (poor) amount of goods. Thus, poverty is the economic and socio-cultural condition of people who have a minimum amount of liquid values ​​and limited access to social benefits.

Poverty is not only a minimum income, but a special way and style of life, norms of behavior, stereotypes of perception and psychology that are passed down from generation to generation. So sociologists talk about poverty as a special subculture.

1. Leisure of the poor

Turning to the problem of leisure, it should be emphasized that only a third of the poor are more or less satisfied with its quality. No more than 5-7% of the representatives of materially disadvantaged groups recognized their leisure opportunities as good. What fills the leisure time of those groups of the population that most noticeably differ in the level of their material well-being?

As can be seen in Figure 1 (see Appendix 1), some forms of leisure activities are available to almost every Russian (television, reading newspapers, household chores, hobbies, religious participation). The use of others (opportunities to communicate with friends, some domestic hobbies associated with certain additional costs - books, music, video, computer, self-education, attending theaters, movies, concerts) decreases with varying degrees of intensity as one moves down the social ladder. A number of ways to spend free time for the majority of the population is simply inaccessible. First of all, this refers to various forms of active leisure outside the home, meeting the needs for a full-fledged social, cultural and public life. For those who are poor, there are no (and for the population as a whole, they are noticeably narrowed) the possibilities of using entertaining, recreational, developing components of non-home recreation and leisure.

As for the poor, for them the possibilities of leading an active social life outside the home not only do not grow, but in some respects they even narrow down more and more (paid entertainment, attendance at cultural events).

As the study showed, the ratio of different types of leisure differs qualitatively among representatives of polar social strata. For example, for the poor, these figures look like this: adherents of active leisure - 19.6%; traditional - 56.8%; and simple - 23.6%.

It is in the group of the poor (and only among them) that in recent years there has been a noticeable decrease in the bar of their own spiritual claims. Due to acute financial difficulties, people begin to abandon the style and way of life that was most preferable for them in the recent past, that is, they abandon the most important component of their own social identification and gradually not only sink to the bottom in material terms, but also degrade in personal relationship. Since 2000, among the poorest population of Russia, there has been a sharp drop in interest in self-education, art, and literature (by almost 20%). Over 80% of poor intellectuals who love the theater cannot afford to attend performances, up to 90% of those who love fine arts do not visit museums and exhibitions, the same proportion of poor lovers of modern and classical music is deprived of the opportunity to go to concerts. At the same time, only a third of rich intellectuals who declare their love for these types of art, for one reason or another, do not attend theaters, concerts, museums and exhibitions.

1. Leisure of the rich

It must be said that the forms of spending free time during the years of market reforms have undergone certain changes, but these changes have affected various social groups to varying degrees. Thus, the most prosperous part of the Russian population, since 1999, has seen an almost two-fold increase in such types of leisure activities outside the home as visiting cafes, bars, restaurants, a one and a half-fold increase in attendance at concerts, cinema, exhibitions, museums, outstripping rates in the sphere of home leisure the computer, the Internet are being introduced, not too obvious, but the social and political component of leisure is steadily increasing (participation in the activities of clubs, associations, attending meetings). In the general population, these changes are present to a very small extent.

Also, in the prosperous segments of the population, there is a drop in interest in television, especially in its entertainment version.

What can be said about the distribution of types of leisure: among the rich, the number of adherents of active leisure is 80.7%, traditional - 15.6% and simple - 3.7%.

In general, up to 70% of rich people recognized their leisure opportunities as good.

The rich spend their leisure time more diversely than the poor. This applies to classes both requiring and not requiring additional costs. The rich are one and a half times more likely to read both periodicals and books, 5 times more likely to visit cultural institutions, 2.2 times more likely to go to sporting events, almost twice as likely to play musical instruments or sing, draw.

From all of the above, we can conclude. Most leisure activities, even those that do not require financial investment, are less likely to attract the poor. Their free time is less exciting, they think less about its meaning and do not express much dissatisfaction with it, that is, in general, they are not going to change this situation. The poor are less likely to talk about hobbies, reading, self-development, communication, they pay more attention to spectacles, to recreation proper, despite the fact that the proportions of “very” and “not very” tired after work among the rich and the poor are approximately the same.

Nevertheless, to the question: “If you want to have a pleasant evening, what would you most likely do?” - the majority of respondents, regardless of their income, answered that they would “spend time with guests”. This means that Russians first of all understand “live” communication by “pleasant pastime”.

Thus, two opposite tendencies are observed in the development of leisure. One is in its simplification, impoverishment. A significant part of the respondents perceive the forms of leisure available to them as forced, which turns into an acute feeling of boredom, melancholy, and loneliness. People have a sharply reduced sense of freedom of choice. In its extreme forms, the simplification of leisure leads to the fact that people do not know at all what to do with their free time.

However, there is another trend - to complicate, exalt the forms of leisure. It can be defined as a tendency of self-development of the personality. It is associated with the feeling that personal opportunities are expanding, education and self-education, tourism, and travel begin to occupy an important place.

As you can see, different groups of the population have completely different opportunities to get involved in social life, to practice active leisure outside the home. Empirical evidence unequivocally indicates that the type of leisure and attitude towards one's free time become integral features of belonging to a certain social stratum.

1. Tourism as an indicator of social status

What does a person need in our time besides money? Probably, the possibility of self-affirmation, recognition. In this chapter, we will look at how tourism can build a personal identity, i.e. how travel can shape a person's social status.

Starting in the 1970s, as the industrial societies of the West were replaced by post-industrial ones, work as the main social attribute began to give way to leisure. “Profession” as a defining characteristic of social status has been replaced by the concept of “lifestyle”, which combines the type of work, leisure, marital status, place of residence and level of consumption. Work was reduced only to a means of generating income - impersonal and alienated, and most of life's values ​​("spontaneity", "intimacy", "creativity") turned out to be concentrated outside it - in the family circle, in the field of leisure (hobbies, sports, vacation organization) .

Here is what the British sociologist John Urry writes in The View of the Tourist: Leisure and Travel in Modern Societies: “Traveling today takes up 40% of free time. If people don't travel, they lose status: travel has become a sign of status. The most important element of modern life has become the belief that travel and vacations are necessary. Since the values ​​of this comparison tend to become the values ​​of the whole society, taking a vacation away from home is no longer just one of the possible types of recreation, but a social norm that must be followed. Modern tourism is a complex ritual with its own rigidly designed scenario, for the deviation from which the tourist will be criticized by his fellows. If an American goes to Europe, he "must see" Paris, and in Paris the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre, and in the Louvre the Venus de Milo and the Mona Lisa.

This obligation extends not only to pleasant, but also to "negative" tourist experiences. If a Midwesterner comes to the South to see the "wild Indians," he becomes upset when he finds out that the Indians shown to him as "wild" in their spare time from working as "Indians" walk around in European clothes and watch CNN news on satellite television.

However, despite the frequent disappointments, the current tourist continues to strive for the unexplored beauties of nature and culture.

Citizens of Russia got the opportunity to travel not so long ago. The Soviet experience of such trips abroad was one of humiliation, surveillance, and an attempt by the state to mold travelers' impressions. Traveling - one of the main visible achievements of "perestroika" - for the majority of the townsfolk is much more significant than the ambiguous freedom of speech and little-understood multi-party system. In conditions of poor housing and an unsettled professional "table of ranks", vacations abroad have become a defining classification feature of the emerging middle class in Russia.

But in order to form the status of the very fact of travel, it is necessary to somehow broadcast your own impressions to others. Souvenirs brought from the trip, photographs and amateur videos serve these purposes. The virtual communities of travelers that are taking shape before our eyes are a kind of secular salon where the “fashion of the season” is discussed, the norms of behavior of the new Russian middle class are honed, collective decisions are made about what corresponds and what does not correspond to these norms, and who, therefore, can be include in the number of "own".

On the Internet, many participants seek not only to share their impressions, but also to demonstrate their superiority over others. The author of one story, describing a trip to Turkey, for a long time justified himself for such a “common” choice of direction: “In some circles, vacationing in countries such as Turkey, Egypt or Tunisia is considered indecent ...”. Readers were touched by the frank snobbery of the narrators. Forum participants very often criticize the authors of stories for this, seeing snobbery, including in excessive requirements for the service: “Unfortunately, immigrants from the former USSR have a lot of snobbery and arrogance - they say, give EVERYTHING for our money ...” "Is this snobbery? And what if I worked at the mine for a whole year in order to have a human rest in a 5-star hotel, and they push me into a 2-star, into a room overlooking the garbage?

The author of the last remark has a typical attitude towards rest for the majority of Russians. Chinese sociologist Wang describes a similar phenomenon of peak consumption, when a modest, frugal and in many ways denying himself a person on vacation strives to become "king for an hour", squanders money and splurges others. And whims, excessive demands and claims to the service are an integral part of this behavioral model.

The explanation for this phenomenon is the desire to live for a week not like at home, but a different life - in luxury with helpful servants and maids who need to be "baked".

We conclude: a person goes on a trip in order to prove to himself and others that he is worth it, that he has the opportunity to afford this trip. On a journey, a person asserts himself thanks to diligent servants and "poor" maids. In his homeland, he is led, commanded, maybe humiliated, even shouted - but here, in another place, he enters into this role of leader and leader. Such a person unconsciously acts like this: “As they tortured me at work, so I will torture.” Well, the last moment in self-recognition is photographs, souvenirs from a distant country. The material fact of the stay of the "tortured worker" in a wonderful country.

So, tourism can be called one of the categories that forms the idea of ​​the individual about himself and the idea of ​​society about him. Traveling, a person is realized as a person and proves it to everyone else.

Chapter 2 A Study of the Leisure Preferences of the Rich and the Poor

leisure social status

In April 2009, a sociological study was conducted in the city of Saratov on the topic of leisure preferences and real opportunities for the rich and the poor to spend their leisure time. Questioning was chosen as the research method. The purpose of the study was to identify the leisure preferences of the rich and the poor and to clarify the question: what do these strata actually do?

A total of 43 people were interviewed. Of these, 14 were men and 29 were women. People aged 19 to 67 were interviewed.

To begin with, it was necessary to decompose the questionnaires into piles of income: "small (5-10 thousand rubles)", "medium (11-25 thousand rubles)" and "high (26 thousand rubles and above)". It turned out respectively: 11 people, 23 people and 9 people. From this we can conclude that the majority of respondents live in families with an average income. Further we will see what can follow from this.

When asked how you spend your free time, the first group answered: 6 people answered that they spend their free time watching TV, 4 do their hobbies, 4 go to the theater and concerts, 3 are engaged in self-education, 2 answered that they just lie on the sofa. We can conclude that this is to be expected, people with low incomes can hardly afford a club or a restaurant.

The second group was distributed as follows: 20 people spend time with friends, 12 people sit at the computer, 12 people read books and educate themselves, 6 do their favorite thing (hobby) and 6 go to theaters and concerts. 5 go to a club or casino and 2 go in for sports. What conclusion can be drawn: people with average earnings try to spend more time with friends or at home, but already doing different things: some at the computer, some with a book. 6 people devote themselves to a hobby. This is a relatively low figure for the middle class, as can be explained. Either people don't have time, or they don't have money, or they just don't have hobbies. Such people most often think about raising their qualifications and in their free time either improve it or relax at the computer. Perhaps for them the hobby is a waste of time.

It would seem that there is more money and you can go to the club, but still the “middle class” prefers theaters to clubs. Only 2 people go in for sports, this suggests that people either simply do not have the strength after work, or they consider it unnecessary.

The third group was distributed as follows: all 9 people spend time with friends, 7 are engaged in self-education, 5 go in for sports, 5 do what they love, 2 go to clubs and 3 to theaters. Only 1 person prefers to lie on the couch. Conclusion: once again, friends come first. They say money spoils people and they try to spend more time with precious friends. 7 people are engaged in self-education - "new Russians" comprehend languages ​​or improve their skills or just read books. 5 - go in for sports - most likely this is a purely symbolic trip to fitness clubs to maintain status. But it is also possible that people have the opportunity to monitor their health, their weight, maybe they go in for sports at home, or maybe they just do exercises with their children. But the fact is that rich people play sports more often than all other strata. Probably because they have the opportunity to do so. Half of the rich people surveyed indulge in their favorite business in their free time - a hobby. Most likely, this can also be justified by the available opportunities. A person has money - he can afford to buy ancient coins or the work of a local artist. As it turned out, clubs are not so popular among the wealthy stratum of the population. Only 2 people go there: a 26-year-old girl and a 42-year-old man.

3 people visit the theater - after all, the cultural program attracts rich people more than a disco.

Next question: how would you like to spend your free time?

The first group was divided as follows: 10 people would like to go to the theater and concerts, 8 would like to go shopping, 5 would take up a hobby, and 2 people each answered: in a club, in a casino and read. Conclusion: it turns out that people with low earnings do not rush to the club or the casino, they want to go to the theater. It has been noticed that people of retirement age would prefer the theater, and young people would prefer theater and concerts. It's nice to see that young people want to visit cultural institutions, but, unfortunately, they don't have the opportunity, or maybe they just don't want to. 8 people would like to empty the shops. Buy, and it doesn’t matter what, the main thing here is to spend, to acquire. A consumer society, here a desire is manifested to spend money, to feel that there is money, that there is a lot of it. Half would have stayed at their favorite business, Saratov people probably have very tenacious hobbies, since people do not want to part with them, even if they have money or other opportunities, they will still prefer a hobby than going to a club. But no one will refuse delicious food: in the “other” section, 3 people wrote a cafe, restaurant or bar.

The second group was distributed as follows: 20 people would prefer to sit in a restaurant or a club, 13 - go shopping, 12 - go to the casino, 10 - to the theater, three would do what they love and three more would read. And only 2 people would watch TV. What does it say. The middle class wants to shake things up, move away from the gray everyday life and office walls - they are eager to spend money in a restaurant, in a store or in a casino. 10 people - almost half decided to continue to cultivate, but if we compare that 6 people actually go to the theater, we can conclude that 4 people want to go there, but do not consider it possible. But the hobby decided to abandon. It is better to spend time well-fed and satisfied, having played enough in the casino, than to indulge in your favorite and so familiar business. It is this routine that is the reason for the change of priorities. 2 people could not think of anything, or they are saving money for a long-awaited vacation.

The third group was distributed as follows: 8 people - a casino, 8 - shops, 2 - to the theater, 3 - to a concert, and 4 people, in addition to the rest of the answers, also added something like “I want something unusual”, for example, “to jump with a parachute” or "play paintball". What conclusion can be drawn. Rich people also got tired of this pastime, although almost everyone would prefer casinos and shops. And as it turned out, 1 person refused the theater, only 2 remained faithful to them.

The next question is: how much are you willing to spend on your vacation weekly? In the first group, almost everyone is ready to spend from 100 to 1000 rubles, only 2 people want to relax in a big way from 2000 to 5000 rubles - perhaps they misunderstood the question. People with average earnings are ready to spend a week: up to 5000 rubles - 4 people and 19 people up to 1000 rubles. Conclusion - the middle class saves on their weekends. And finally, the third group. Everyone unanimously answered that they were ready to spend from 1,000 to 5,000 rubles a week. We can conclude that the rich are not particularly eager to spend their money.

How do you usually spend your holidays? The first group answered as follows: out of 11 people - 5 spend in the country, 5 in the city, 5 - do not go anywhere, 1 - at camp sites. Since the majority of respondents in this group are pensioners, the question about vacation could be called incorrect. But all the same, older people wrote about the dacha. Everything is clear here, old people are more willing to be in silence and in the fresh air, most of them cannot afford a camp site, a sanatorium, and even more so a resort. Therefore, they go to the country, they also like to dig in the ground, some live off the garden - potatoes, cabbage, beets, pickles and for sale. Also in the other column, 2 people noted that they were going home. These are students, a separate subcategory of people with low earnings. You need to see your parents, help them, meet friends. In general, this group spends their vacation very economically, and even tries to earn money on it (selling apples, students earning part-time).

The second group: 10 people spend their holidays in the country, 8 - in tourist centers, 6 - in Russian resorts, 4 - in sanatoriums, 2 - abroad, 2 - within the city. The middle class prefers to calmly sunbathe in the country, it does not require extra costs, and you do not have to travel far, and if you still have small children, then the cottage is the best option for spending holidays. 8 in camp sites and 4 in sanatoriums - remnants of Soviet times, as it turned out, even in our time are relevant. To improve health, to make an inexpensive peeling - this can be afforded by the middle class in sanatoriums and resorts. 6 go to rest in domestic resorts - it's not expensive, and closer to the sea, to Europe. 2 people can afford a vacation abroad. This is very small, among the middle class there could be more. It can be concluded that the Saratov middle class saves money abroad and prefers domestic resorts. 2 people generally have a rest in the city, perhaps at this time they visit leisure facilities in their native city, or swim on the city beach.

The third group: all of the respondents in this group have a rest in Russian resorts, 4 people have a rest abroad, 6 in sanatoriums, 3 in the country. This group can easily afford foreign resorts, but still prefer Russian ones. Although half of them often visited abroad. 6 - rests in sanatoriums, health is important for everyone, regardless of income level. 3 in the country, i.e. rich people in Saratov do not rest in their dachas all the time.

Next question: where would you like to spend your vacation? The first group was distributed as follows: 8 people would go on a trip to world attractions, 3 - on an expensive beach, 2 - in the country. 2 people - a 67-year-old man and a 66-year-old woman would prefer to spend this time in the country. In a personal interview, they said that why go somewhere, when there are a lot of beautiful places in our area, and the garden needs to be watered. This rigidity of older people does not allow them to travel long distances, even in their imagination. The poor strata of the population, having lived for many years in a small apartment, dream of seeing a big and beautiful world, with the greatest achievements of culture.

The second group was distributed as follows: 20 people would go on a tour of world attractions - most likely this is due to the desire to escape from the gray everyday life, to change the situation, to cultivate themselves. 10 - would like to relax on an expensive beach - a typical example of peak consumption. Two wrote that they wanted to be on a desert island - an extreme manifestation of the desire to escape from the hustle and bustle. Everything has become so insipid for these people that they are eager to be in the role of Robinson. 9 wished to take an extreme tour - this is due to the thirst for thrills. It can be concluded that the middle class lacks bright, new emotions.

The third group: 5 would take an extreme tour - rich people can afford traditional cultural and educational tours, perhaps they are already fed up with the cultural program and they really want thrills, so they climb a high mountain or go down a mountain river. 3 wished to relax at an expensive resort - probably to maintain the status of a rich person. 3 would like to be on a desert island, tired of the casino, the hustle and bustle of business, these people want to escape from civilization.

The next question is: how much are you willing to spend during your summer vacation? The first group most answered 5-10 thousand rubles. It is understandable. If your family income is only 5-10 thousand rubles, then they can afford a vacation with the same money, if not less. The second group, with a majority of 14 people, answered that they were ready to spend 5-10 thousand rubles on vacation. - we can conclude that the middle class is not yet ready to spend large sums of money on recreation. Although a little less than half in the middle class are ready to pay 11-20 thousand rubles. to rest. And the third group in the majority is ready to spend 11-20 thousand rubles, two people are ready to rest in the amount of 21-30 thousand rubles. and two more people are ready to spend heavily on their vacation, giving 31-60 thousand rubles. Almost not all rich people are ready to give good money for vacation. But there are some, because traveling with that kind of money, they rise in the eyes of others.

How often do you visit abroad? In the first group, two people in the “other” column noted that they had once been abroad more than once. That's what retirees said. What do today's statistics say? All 11 people wrote that they do not go abroad. The second group leaves Russia: once every two years - 6 people, once a year - 12 people, twice a year - 5 people, two of whom noted that they leave for work or for advanced training. The third group: one person wrote that he travels abroad more than 5 times a year - "such a job." But mostly rich people travel once a year. They also work, and they have one vacation a year, but rather long, in which they can visit many countries. They do.

Which country resorts do you prefer? The first group: 7 people in the “other” column wrote that they cannot afford resorts, and at the same time 4 prefer Russian resorts and 2 European resorts.

Last question: would you like to spend more money on your vacation? The first group: 3 people noted that everything suits them - we have already talked about the rigidity of the elderly, they do not want to change anything, let everything remain as it was, anyway they consider the Soviet era the best time to travel. And 8 people would like to completely change their leisure time. The life of the poor does not suit everyone, and such people are waiting for changes in their lives. The second group: 12 people would like to slightly improve their pastime. It is good that they consider their leisure to be good, and even better is the fact that they want to improve it - development is a step in evolution. 9 people want to completely change their leisure time. They want to add color to life, more money, and, as they think, everything will become fine, and life will become more fun. In fact, you can’t run away from yourself, and the big money invested in leisure will not bring great happiness to these people. And two people in their leisure are satisfied with everything. Probably, they are very well settled and satisfied with themselves and their leisure.

Third group: 5 people want to slightly improve their leisure time. To add thrills, as mentioned above, these people are also tired of routine. True, they say about such people “they are mad with fat”, but it is up to them to decide. And 5 people still want to change their leisure time a little. Four people are fine. Perhaps they, too, are well settled and happy with life.

Conclusion

Rich or poor, we all love to relax. But how? Unfortunately, the poor most often lack the opportunity, they are not able to achieve what they want. But there are such forms of leisure that can be accessed by a wide mass of people from different strata. These are volunteering, charity, visiting circles, Palaces of Culture, free exhibitions, participation in rallies, participation in various competitions and in the life of an educational institution, etc.

Divides people into poor and rich amount of liquid values. This function is usually performed by money.

If inequality is presented in the form of a scale, then on one of its poles there will be those who own the largest (rich), and on the other - the smallest (poor) amount of goods.

Poor people increasingly began to limit themselves in leisure. It should be emphasized that only a third of the poor are more or less satisfied with the quality of their leisure time. No more than 5-7% of respondents recognized their leisure opportunities as good. A number of ways to spend free time for the majority of the population is inaccessible. First of all, this refers to various forms of active leisure outside the home, meeting the needs for a full-fledged social, cultural and public life. For those who are poor, there are no (and for the population as a whole, they are noticeably narrowed) the possibilities of using entertaining, recreational, developing components of non-home recreation and leisure.

Some domestic hobbies associated with certain additional costs - books, music, videos, computers, self-education, attending theaters, cinemas, concerts - also go into oblivion for a poor person.

Among the wealthy, there is a twofold increase in such types of leisure activities outside the home as visiting cafes, bars, restaurants, one and a half times growth in attendance at concerts, cinema, exhibitions, museums; the political component of leisure (participation in the activities of clubs, associations, attending meetings). On the other hand, interest in watching TV, especially entertainment programs, decreases.

Tourism as an indicator of social status is widespread among the middle class. These are mostly white-collar workers, managers, people who are not accustomed to command, but have dreamed about it for so long. And now they are given such an opportunity at the resort. Where they can freely manage the service staff and feel like a king. Also, a person asserts himself on a journey, proving to himself and others that he was able to save money and buy an expensive tour. And in order to prove to society that the tour was expensive, a person must bring evidence of this from the trip: souvenirs and photographs, possibly clothes. Then everyone will see that he has visited this country, and returned - alive - healthy, and happy, and ready for a new job. So, tourism also helps society to understand: who is rich and who is poor. That is, it can be one of the categories for social stratification.

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Types of leisure activities for the rich and poor, in %

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Hello! Department of Tourism Business Management of the Saratov State Technical University is conducting a sociological survey on the topic of leisure "Leisure for the rich and the poor" and we will be extremely grateful if you take a little of your time and answer our questions. The research is conducted anonymously. The received data will be transferred to the Ministry of Physical Culture, Sports and Tourism and will be taken into account in their further activities.

Please tick the answer with which you agree. Please don't skip questions.

1. Your gender: male __ female __

2. Your age is ________ years

3. Marital status _________________

4. Your education: primary __ secondary __ specialized secondary __

Incomplete higher __ higher __

5. Do you have children ______

6. If yes, indicate their age ____________

7. Your place of residence __________________________________________

8. The level of your family income: small (5-10 thousand rubles) ___, medium (11-25 thousand rubles) ___ and high (26 thousand rubles and above) ___.

9. How do you spend your free time?

I watch TV, I listen to the radio ___

I have a hobby ___

I read books, educate myself ___

Spend time with friends ___

I go to a club, a restaurant, a casino ___

I go to the theater, to concerts ___

Doing sports ___

I am lying on a couch ___

I sit at the computer, on the Internet ___

10. How would you like to spend your free time?

In a club, restaurant ___

Do what I love ___

Go shopping ___

At the casino ___

Read (a) ___

Watched TV ___

Went to a concert ___

Went to the theater ___

Other __________________________________________________

11. How much are you willing to spend on your vacation weekly?

From 100 to 1000 rubles ___

From 2000 to 5000 rubles ___

From 6000 and above ___

12. How do you usually spend your summer holidays?

At home, I don't go anywhere ___

In the city ___

In the country ___

In sanatoriums ___

At camp sites ___

At Russian resorts ___

Abroad ___

Other __________________________________________________

13. Where would you like to spend your holidays?

In the country ___

On a desert island ___

At an expensive resort ___

In a sanatorium ___

I would go on a trip to world attractions ___

Would take an extreme tour ___

14. How much are you willing to spend during your summer vacation?

Not able to spend money on vacation ___

5-10 thousand rubles ___

11-20 thousand rubles ___

21-30 thousand rubles ___

31-60 thousand rubles ___

60 thousand rubles and higher ___

15. How often do you go abroad?

2 times per year ___

1 time per year ___

1 every 2 years ___

I don't go abroad ___

Other __________________________________________________

16. Which countries' resorts do you prefer?

Russia ___

Ukraine ___

Turkey ___

Egypt ___

European resorts ___

Other __________________________________________________

17. Would you like to spend more money on your vacation?

No, everything suits me ___

Yes, I would like (a) to slightly improve my leisure time ___

Yes, I would like to completely change my leisure time ___

Thank you very much for participating in our survey!

Sociology. Educational-methodical set / Kazan: Institute of Social and Humanitarian Knowledge. - 2006

Kravchenko A.I. Sociology: A textbook for university students.- M .: "Academic Project", Publishing Corporation "Lotos", 1999.- p.151

Kravchenko A.I. Sociology: A textbook for university students.- M .: "Academic Project", Publishing Corporation "Lotos", 1999.- p. 151

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In the summer of 2014, a 19-year-old British millionaire Alim Iqbal, also known as Lord Aleem, was the victim of intruders who set fire to four of his cars worth over half a million pounds.

The perpetrators allegedly set the fire out of envy of Alim's huge fleet of vehicles.

In the photo, the eldest daughter of the boss of Formula 1 Bernie Ecclestone Tamara breastfeeding her 8 month old daughter Sofia in the dining room of his £70 million London mansion. In the background is the husband of the heiress of billions Jay Rutland reading a newspaper

Tamara Ecclestone is currently commentating on Channel 4's Red Bull Air Race World Series. She owns a television production company with her sister.

From a family of Iranian refugees Tony Tutuni made a fortune in the USA and became known for his outrageous entertainment

Tutuni's Instagram account is full of photos of wads of money, guns, private jets, luxury cars and half-naked girls.

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Timothy Sykes- one of the most successful young traders in the world. On Sachs' Instagram - expensive cars, beautiful girls and mountains of money. However, many people on Wall Street note that Sykes closed his hedge fund due to losses even before the 2008 global crisis and now his main job is lectures and seminars on trading.

There is a special segment in the service market - services for very rich people. For a tidy sum of money, instead of a taxi, a helicopter can fly, specially trained people will disperse the clouds, and a special panoramic sunroof will be provided on the plane. However, the list of amazing services for rich people is not limited to this.

1. An unreasonably expensive whim: panoramic sunroofs in an airplane

panoramic sunroofs - $53 million
Those who are unlucky enough to get a window seat on an airplane are often nervous, because all the charm of air travel is lost. Rich people can now forget about such a problem and order a plane with a panoramic view from the cabin. A similar idea belongs to the Brazilian aircraft manufacturer Embraer, which offered customers a Lineage 1000E model in the Airship Kyoto design. Customers who buy one of the $53 million Lineage 1000E aircraft can order clear windows all around the aircraft's cabin. This provides passengers with an unrivaled view of the surroundings during the flight, as well as access to natural light.

2. Overpriced whim: Uber helicopter

Uber helicopter - $190
For commuters who have always dreamed of how great it would be to fly through traffic jams on city roads, the dream has become a reality in Sao Paulo thanks to Uber. In June 2016, Brazil's largest city became the first in the world to offer Uber an on-demand helicopter ride between airport, hotel and conference rooms. Promotional prices start at 66 reais ($190) per seat. So far, only one flight is available - from the Helicentro Morumbi heliport in one of the richest areas of Sao Paulo to the Blue Tree Hotel, located 6 kilometers on the other side of the river.

3. Unreasonably expensive whim: imaginary diseases

shrink - $ to infinity
Clay Cockrell used to work on Wall Street but is now a therapist in Manhattan. Therapist for very rich people. He said that many of the rich simply believe that their health problems do not mean anything and that they can be neglected. His job is to convince them (and this is difficult, since billionaires do not trust “ordinary” therapists).

4. Overpriced whim: Christmas tree stylist

Christmas tree stylist - $80,000
Bob Pranga works as a Christmas tree stylist. One of his first clients was Kathy Hilton, who eventually introduced the unusual stylist to the beau monde of Los Angeles. Since then, he has decorated the homes of some of the biggest stars, including Christy Alley, Kate Hudson, Christina Aguilera, Mark Wahlberg and Barbara Streisand. His services range from $2,500 to $80,000, and he starts with a 30-minute consultation to determine style, budget, and timelines.

5. Overpriced whim: packing organizer

packing organizer - $250 per hour
Wealthy parents can be sure that their children will be fully prepared to attend summer camp. To do this, you just need to hire a professional organizer Barbara Reich. She has been working for several years and has become quite famous. Two years ago she had just one order, last year 5, and this year already as many as 10. Barbara's services cost $250 an hour, but one order can bring her $1,000. Some clients even ask her to reproduce a home room child in the camp, so that he was comfortable.

6. Unreasonably expensive whim: cloudless weather

cloudless weather - $100,000
No matter how meticulously a couple plans every detail of their wedding, the weather often throws up unpleasant surprises. Luxury travel company Oliver's Travels offers wealthy clients a "perfect wedding day" package, claiming that its specialists will be able to control the weather for a tidy sum of $ 100,000. The company has a team of experienced meteorologists and pilots who will spray silver iodide from airplanes on the eve of the wedding over rain clouds, which will cause them to dissipate.

Similar cloud seeding was developed in the late 1940s and was used during the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing to prevent rain during the opening and closing ceremonies. This procedure was also used during the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton in 2012.

7. Overpriced whim: Luxy app

Luxy - from $200,000 per year
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For data authentication, Luxy requires users to upload clear copies of passports, tax receipts, bank statements, and other documents that prove the user's assets. Only users with a verified income of $200,000 or more can receive an authorization confirmation.

8. Overpriced whim: Helicopter, Rolls-Royce, 10,000 roses, Dinner Band

dinner - $2 million
The world's most expensive dinner was ordered for a happy couple in Singapore. For $2m (£1.54m; €1.81m), the entire eight-hour event was staged, starting with a 45-minute helicopter ride over Singapore. Also included in the price was the rental of a Rolls-Royce with a driver and a private luxury cruise. The couple were then taken to the rooftop of the Marina Bay Sands Hotel, where they were treated to a beautiful view of Singapore and 10,000 fresh roses.

The orchestra entertained them with live music during the 18-course dinner. The menu includes fresh European oysters with champagne foam, albino beluga caviar, wild salmon from Alaska and Mishima filet fried on apple wood. The wine list includes Salon "S" Champagne 1988, Domaine Leflaive Chevalier-Montrachet Grand Cru 2008, and Oremus Tokaji Aszu 5 Puttonyos 1972. For eating, the couple were given personalized diamond-encrusted chopsticks.

9 Overpriced Caprice: Secret Solstice Festival Ticket

ticket - $1 million
In 2015, the Secret Solstice Festival in Iceland became famous for selling a ticket for two for $ 200,000. This year, the organizers raised the bar to $ 1 million. This price includes a flight for six in a private jet from anywhere on Zemlem, luxury 6-room villa for 7 nights in the center of Reykjavik, gourmet food in the villa from a famous Icelandic chef, 24-hour use of two luxury cars with drivers, security, two private concerts of famous Icelandic musicians, aerial tour of Iceland (includes lunch with champagne at the geothermal hot spring), whale and dolphin watching excursion, snowmobile ride on the glacier and helicopter flights between all points of the program.

Oh yes, also VIP access to the festival, access to an indoor bar for artists and VIP guests, a concert inside a dormant volcano magma chamber, and the world's only party inside a glacier.

10 Overpriced Caprice: 10 Carat Manicure

manicure - $51,000
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“All people love the classics, but not everyone knows about it,” says Alexander Chakhovsky, art organizer of the Classics at the Town Hall project. Five years ago, he worked in IT, and then dramatically changed his life. TUT.BY found out from Chakhovsky which of the Belarusian musicians could play in Barcelona, ​​why schoolchildren were no longer sent to the best concerts, and also how flash mobs, quests and open-air concerts make the classics popular.

Used to drive the school kids, now the hipsters are coming

In 2012, Chakhovsky founded the Classics Music House, which promotes academic music in a format that is close and understandable to ordinary viewers. Why did the metropolitan IT specialist change his life so dramatically?

- At some point, I realized: the direction that I was engaged in ceased to interest me. It was a kind of run in place. I have always liked the classics. As a child, I studied at a music school, so the foundations were laid. But I won’t hide it - at the time of the start, I didn’t know a lot. But I always say: if you want to learn something, start teaching, if you want to get to know classical music better, open a music house.

After I got involved in this, I began to prepare, participate in webinars, attend some round tables and delve into the matter more. There is a book, Funky Business, written by two professors at the Stockholm School of Economics. So I started my funky business (the authors of the book argue that the corporate world should become more interesting, people should become creative, etc. - Approx. TUT.BY).

The most famous project, in which Musical House took part, was the Saturday evenings Classics at the City Hall with velcom, which were sold out for two seasons in a row. The Minsk City Executive Committee proposed to popularize the classics in this way, Chakhovsky's team organized the event in cooperation with the Idea Foundation.

Alexander Chakhovsky. Photo: Daria Buryakina, TUT.BY

“Open air is a specific, even a promenade format, when people do not sit, but walk,” says Alexander Chakhovsky. - If in a concert hall you can play a symphony, which usually consists of four movements of 6-12 minutes, then here you need to use other forms. But in the promenade format, the classics go well. It seems to me that the Classics at the Town Hall project has already become a hallmark of our city.

Works by Vivaldi, Mozart, Strauss, Mikhail Kleofas Oginsky and other composers were performed near the Town Hall. Even those who are not yet ready to go to a long concert at the Philharmonic could listen to the masterpieces of the classics.

Alexander Chakhovsky is sure that musical taste should be developed.

“It's like physical education. If a person does not give a damn about himself in physiological terms, he will not do yoga, go to fitness, will not swim in the pool. It is the same with the development of musical taste, - Alexander explains. - True, if in sports you see the result and decide: “Oh, handsome! I’ll go to the gym, ”the situation here is a little different. Here you need to work on yourself in the mental and intellectual sense.

Our listener is first of all a latent lover of classical music. Due to non-standard promotion, we are trying to involve those who do not listen to the classics so far. For example, Mozart is for everyone, this is why he is a genius. And then, when a person is drawn in, he can be invited to some work by Brahms, or Mahler - this is another league of rethinking.

Alpine horn together with the orchestra under the direction of conductor Ivan Kostyakhin. Photo: Alexander Vasyukovich, TUT.BY

— And how many latent classical lovers do we have?

“Of course, we didn’t do much research. Probably less than Stas Mikhailov. Unfortunately, Alexander smiles. But we already have our own audience. Now I'm seeing an interesting phenomenon. Previously, the last audience for classical music concerts was young people between the ages of 14 and 20. They only came when they were driven out of school. And now the situation is changing - people come to our concerts, a lot of young people, some can be called hipsters. Someone is just interested in trying it, someone really “sticks”, as they say. And there is something in this.

“If Belarusians played in teams like Barcelona, ​​only then would we know them for sure”

Alexander draws attention to the fact that many major world-famous musicians come from Belarus.

- If our compatriots played in teams like Barcelona, ​​only then would we know them for sure. And our classical music stars, unfortunately, are not known to the common man today. Oksana Volkova sings at the Metropolitan Opera, the No. 1 theater in the world. It's like a Belarusian actor starring in a Hollywood movie. Nadezhda Kucher at the Grand Opera in Paris. Belarusian Andrei Kovalinsky is the first trumpet of the national orchestra of France. Pianists Timur Sergeenya and Kirill Keduk with programs around the world. And these are just some of the names.

According to Chakhovsky, it is important that Belarusian stars be known not only in the capital, but also in the regions.

— Imagine: Baranovichi University has a wonderful hall for performances with 500 seats, with an excellent concert grand piano! Alexander Chakhovsky says — Of course, in Minsk there is a philharmonic hall with almost 700 seats, but it is constantly scheduled. There is no other such site in Minsk. And in Baranavichy it is quite possible to hold concerts. Once a month we organize an event, and people come. There is a demand, because there is nothing more classic in the city. A very intelligent audience is gathering.

Does Belarus have its own great composers, classics? Musical house "Classic" is trying to prove that it is. A short video was filmed about one of them in 2013. Athletes, TV presenters, artists recalled Stanislav Moniuszko, the author of songs, operettas, ballets and operas.

Alexander recalls how in Soviet times the State Symphony Orchestra gave a big concert every week in the big hall of the Belarusian State Philharmonic Society.

- Every week there was a new program - and a full hall of people. Now they have one concert a month - there is a certain stagnation. But you can revive what was. And it is necessary. To do this, you need to show how different the classics are. I think we succeed.

Some venues that traditionally perform classical pieces only reinforce stereotypes. For example, that the classics are boring. I would like to dispel such stereotypes.

Musicians during the concert "Classics at the City Hall". Photo: Alexander Vasyukovich, TUT.BY

- For example, for the same hipsters, classics can be presented in an atmosphere familiar to them. Art spaces are very fashionable right now. The guys from one of them recently wrote to us, asking us to speak - perhaps we will do something together with them. Why not? Alexander says. Or another option we're thinking about. We have rich people - this can be seen at least in the cars in the city. Well, do people want to stay somewhere in fur coats, evening dresses, talking and listening to the classics? Please.

It's like an Oscar-winning role-playing game. An entrance ticket can cost 150-200 dollars, for this money there is a buffet table, drinks, an interesting presentation of the concert. Practice shows: two parts for an hour at a concert in the Philharmonic is tiring for people, an overdose. And such concerts can be made from three blocks that are not similar to each other. Let's say, first symphonic music, then the violinist plays a concerto with an orchestra, and in the third part - an orchestra and opera artists.

But there is a problem with the premises where it could be carried out. There is a theater hall in Nesvizh Castle, but it has only 110 seats. To recoup a high-quality pretentious story, you need a platform for 250-400 seats. But, in principle, in Minsk we are already on the outskirts of such a project.

Reality and dreams: flash mobs, quests and classics for children

Flash mobs also help bring the classics closer to the people. Chakhovsky used this format more than once.

- Or here's another form - quests. People love them now. And this is again an element of the game,” says Alexander. — We have developed a theatrical quest around the Nesvizh Castle. The goal is to introduce the history of our country. People meet with the prince, with courtiers, get into rooms where excursions usually do not go, listen to classical music.

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This is what opera flash mobs look like in Minsk.

Classics can be interesting for children, Chakhovsky is sure. It is no coincidence that composers also wrote for this age audience.

- Sergei Prokofiev has a symphonic fairy tale "Peter and the Wolf". Britten has a work “Let's create an opera” - children get acquainted with the opera house, and “compose” their own work. There are different interactive stories. We are thinking about it. Music education can be affordable. But for this it is necessary that tickets for these concerts cost five rubles. But you have to pay for the premises, the work of the musicians, so it comes out at least ten rubles for a ticket. It turns out that we need support, sponsors... Such a project should be beneficial to everyone.

It seems that the jazz concerts at the Town Hall, and then the "Classic at the Town Hall" were able to stir up Minsk. The city is talking about the legalization of street musicians - they are thinking of providing venues for performances in underground passages. But that's a completely different story. Photo: Dmitry Brushko, TUT.BY

Not only children, but also adults can be involved in the performance of classical music. Alexander Chakhovsky explains one of the possible formats.

- In any team, there will certainly be people who studied at music schools, who know how to play certain instruments. You can combine performances of both amateurs and professionals in the concert program. This is an incredibly powerful thing for team spirit, people's motivation. Imagine if the money was spent not on restaurants at corporate parties, but on something like that. There is also a moment of music therapy: when you not only listen, but also play music yourself. This is great.

The head of the "Musical House "Classics"" sees the problem in the fact that today in Belarus adults are almost never taught to play classical instruments.

“So you want, for example, to learn how to play the oboe. And where to do it? How? I know that there are several courses for adults in music schools on such instruments, but who knows about this? I didn't know about it myself. It would be good to fill this gap.

Performance of the State Academic Symphony Orchestra conducted by People's Artist of Belarus maestro Alexander Anisimov. Photo: Dmitry Brushko, TUT.BY

While working on the project, Alexander Chakhovsky noticed: in state cultural institutions, people missed normal human communication.

— And here I see that people get high from the project. Musicians come with their own ideas, projects - and there is no barrier when you can only come to the director on some day, by making an appointment. It's nice for people. Yes, and for myself, I realized: it's such a thrill to do what you like. You are at a free music concert almost every day. After the previous lesson, I have the following feeling: as if a person who works a lot, a lot, a lot, suddenly ends up on vacation in the Canary Islands. Both the preparation for the concerts and the concerts themselves are a meditative vacation moment for me from the spiritual point of view.

During the concert "Classics at the City Hall". Photo: Alexander Vasyukovich, TUT.BY

- When everything is so good - do you have a dream?

- Probably, the dream is this: that our project will someday have its own building. So that you can come there not only to listen to the classics, but also to learn from it.

Visitors to the concert "Classics at the City Hall". Photo: Alexander Vasyukovich, TUT.BY