Performance based on the novel of the same name by Yuri Olesha with the participation of actors from the Leningrad Bolshoi Drama Theater of M. Gorky.
The teleplay was based on V. Mayakovsky’s poems “You!”, “Listen!”, “Conversation with Comrade Lenin” and other works of the poet.
By a twist of fate, Prince Olensky, a scholar of art history and the director of the Hermitage, is entrusted with the mission of preserving the museum's collection for Russia during the October days of 1917.
