Presentation of book "Red Soup" by M.V. Kirillov-Ugryumov
27.02.2018

The presentation of the book “Red Soup”, written by Mikhail Kirillov-Ugryumov, has taken place in the premises of MEPhI’s museum. The presentation was organized at the initiative of the MEPhI Council of veterans.

The book "Red Soup" is a collection of literary sketches, where each sketch, supported by a culinary recipe, is a piece of smalt of one big mosaic. And this mosaic is an Easter table laid for friends and relatives, and all readers of the book.

Mikhail Viktorovich Kirillov-Ugryumov

 

Culinary sketches, accompanying each section of the book, are designed to convey the amazing tastes of our recent past to readers. The value of the recipes is in their simplicity as well as difficult experience cooking in Moscow kitchens, Vladimir and Pomor furnaces, smith forges, forging furnaces and the fires of the White Sea. The title of the book comes from the “red soup”, which was cooked in Pskov forge, where the author had a chance to work as a hammer in the 70s of the last century.

Somehow it is a collection of short stories about the people close to the author: his wife Natalia Zakharova and daughter Anastasia, the father who was the first rector of MEPhI Victor Grigorievich Kirillov-Ugryumov, Pskov blacksmith and restorer Vsevolod Petrovich Smirnov, Professor of the Princeton Boris Greek, the artist Sergey Alimov, the restorer Savva Yamshikov, the historian Lev Gumilev, the artist Sergey Yukin, the Moscow families of the Shumskiys and the Popovs, artists Guriy Zakharov and Tatiana Sokolova, grandparents. And also it is about left forever Moscow, the memory of which still lives in our souls.

The book is decorated with extraordinary taste and has wonderful color illustrations of Anastasia Zakharova. Contour drawings are made by Natalia Zakharova.

The world of the book’s author, an alumni of MEPhI and candidate of physical and mathematical sciences, is inextricably linked with the University for decades. It is not surprising that the book starts and ends with the poems of the talented author of the Sixth Creative Association and an alumni of MEPhI Sergey Popov; many photos were taken by the dearly departed MEPhI graduate Georgy Kazarinov (USA).

The presentation of the book was attended by many guests who participated in a symbolic tasting of some of its recipes.

We would like to wish the Museum of MEPhI to continue the wonderful initiative of holding such meetings, strengthening the brotherhood of MEPhI people through talents of its students and graduates.