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Тем временем количество упоминаний сэра Евгения, лорда Хэмптонского и Сибирского, достигло такого количества, что пора рассказать о нем подробней. Лучше всего это получилось у еще одного великого небольшого британского издания The Fence. Краткие выжимки:
- "If put in terms of Russian literature (terms Evgeny would likely prefer) his intelligence seems more akin to the effective guilelessness of Prince Myshkin (великая британская indirectness, обожаю!)
- "[Boris] Johnson hit it off with Evgeny at a £500,000 fundraiser thrown at the Lebedev’s renovated Hampton Court mansion, Stud House, which contained various erotic candelabras, a preserved dwarf skeleton, a Victorian-era hip replacement and, reportedly, a butt plug in the shape of Vladimir Putin’s head and torso."
- "‘He’s not dumb,’ one former employee told us, referencing his photographic memory, ‘but he didn’t appear to have any sense of working at something… like he wanted to turn up, get his picture taken, look connected and important and piss off again.’"
- "In a shower of gold, Evgeny transformed the Evening Standard’s annual Theatre Awards into a glamorous fixture. Evgeny seemed to enjoy these ceremonies so much that one year, according to a journalist covering him at the time, he appeared in every single photograph and had to be cropped out of most of them. Another year, that same journalist says, he arrived twice: once with a gaggle of celebrities and again when Prince William suddenly made an appearance."
- "Around the same time, Evgeny set his newspapers to the task of saving the world’s elephants, and journalists at the Evening Standard were compelled to run as many elephant stories as possible – no doubt a difficult task for a London paper."

Ну и так далее. Если вкратце, история о том, как не очень далекий сынок гэбушного миллиардера покупает дружбу и расположение функционеров из местной партии жуликов и воров — но так лихо написанная, что не оторваться.

The Fence

The Buddha of Siberia

‘So many memories and so little worth remembering, and in front of me – a long, long road without a goal…’ —Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons You might measure Evgeny Lebedev by the blast radius of his…

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Тем временем количество упоминаний сэра Евгения, лорда Хэмптонского и Сибирского, достигло такого количества, что пора рассказать о нем подробней. Лучше всего это получилось у еще одного великого небольшого британского издания The Fence. Краткие выжимки:
- "If put in terms of Russian literature (terms Evgeny would likely prefer) his intelligence seems more akin to the effective guilelessness of Prince Myshkin (великая британская indirectness, обожаю!)
- "[Boris] Johnson hit it off with Evgeny at a £500,000 fundraiser thrown at the Lebedev’s renovated Hampton Court mansion, Stud House, which contained various erotic candelabras, a preserved dwarf skeleton, a Victorian-era hip replacement and, reportedly, a butt plug in the shape of Vladimir Putin’s head and torso."
- "‘He’s not dumb,’ one former employee told us, referencing his photographic memory, ‘but he didn’t appear to have any sense of working at something… like he wanted to turn up, get his picture taken, look connected and important and piss off again.’"
- "In a shower of gold, Evgeny transformed the Evening Standard’s annual Theatre Awards into a glamorous fixture. Evgeny seemed to enjoy these ceremonies so much that one year, according to a journalist covering him at the time, he appeared in every single photograph and had to be cropped out of most of them. Another year, that same journalist says, he arrived twice: once with a gaggle of celebrities and again when Prince William suddenly made an appearance."
- "Around the same time, Evgeny set his newspapers to the task of saving the world’s elephants, and journalists at the Evening Standard were compelled to run as many elephant stories as possible – no doubt a difficult task for a London paper."

Ну и так далее. Если вкратце, история о том, как не очень далекий сынок гэбушного миллиардера покупает дружбу и расположение функционеров из местной партии жуликов и воров — но так лихо написанная, что не оторваться.

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