A Kiss and a Little Bull from Alisa Freindlikh

Already in my first year I was brought into the play "Lefty" at the Lensovet Theatre. It was Igor Petrovich Vladimirov who did it: he needed exactly such a person — tall and agile. So even back then I had gone from being a student to "becoming an actor", I went backstage, greeted the theatre's prima Alisa Freindlikh. And when our course was to congratulate Alisa Brunovna on her birthday, the honour of doing so fell to me. I was entrusted with giving the actress a soft toy and a bouquet of flowers.