First plots. Russian scene at the turn of the millennium

The book of the famous theatrical critic Olga Svyshina "The first plots" refers to the rare genre of "acting portraits". The newest history of the Russian theater at the turn of the Millennium is given in the faces of the first plots of the Russian scene: from Innokentia Smoktunovsky and Oleg Borisov to Yevgeny Mironova and Chulpan Hamaya. Another prince Hamlet called the actors "Living Chronicles of Time". The fate of the heroes of the book coincided with the era of the collapse of the Soviet Power, with the collapse of a huge empire - the time of mutations of the national type and character. The first plots of the book became the actors whose presence determined and determines the appearance of the Russian theater from the mid-1980s to today