S.Ch.: It is one of my favourite works for theatre. I must say, that the best creative forces of that time were united together to work on this performance. The director Evgeniy Pisarev, the art director Zinoviy Margolin, the costume designer Maria Danilova, and the lighting director Damir Ismagilov – it was a great honour working with such a crew! And of course, everything was happening under the leadership and direct involvement of the great Oleg Tabakov (the then artistic director of the Moscow Art Theatre). Alexei Kortnev certainly wrote brilliant lyrics. In some places, his verses created entire poetical scenes that fit into the play by Presnyakov Brothers naturally and enriched it. Not surprisingly, this show won almost all of the famous theatre awards.