Harlequin"s face. The story of the artist Evgenia Knyazeva

The work of Evgeny Knyazev is inextricably linked with the State Academic Theater named after Evgeny Vakhtangov, where since 1982 there have been a lot of significant roles, including Nekhomov in "without guilt of the guilty" A.N. Ostrovsky, Hermann in the "Queen" according to the story by A.S. Pushkin, Ashil in the "Miracle of St. Anthony" M. Meterlink, Arbenin in Masquerade M.Yu. Lermontov, Tiresia in the "King of Edip" Sophocles, Schmule-Sender Lazarek in "Smile to us, Lord" according to G. Kinovich’s novels.
Knyazev - People"s Artist of Russia, laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation.
Rector of the Boris Schukin Theater Institute.
The book tells how the dream of a graduate of the Tula Polytechnic Institute - a mining engineer - become an artist, about his work in the theater and cinema, about views on profession and culture.
Among the characters of the narrative are directors Yevgeny Simonov, Pyotr Fomenko, Rimas Tuminas, artists Julia Borisova, Lyudmila Maksakova, Irina Kupchenko, Vladimir Etush, Mikhail Ulyanov, Yuri Yakovlev, Vasily Lanova and others. For a wide range of readers