Faina Shevchenko
1893 - 1971Произведение искусства
Mark Kovalev
Faina Shevchenko, Evgeni Leonov
Доктор Иван Николаевич получил в подарок от благодарного за излечение Саши Смирнова бронзовый канделябр. Но доктор смущён: канделябр весьма нескромен — две совершенно обнажённые наяды… Доктор в раздумьи: кому бы передарить этот злосчастный презент? Вдруг он вспоминает, что остался должен адвокату Ухову за его консультации. В свою очередь Ухов, движимый тем же чувством, что и доктор, избавляется от подарка, вручая его в день бенефиса актеру-комику Шашкину. Шашкин, решив, что подобное «произведение искусства» может его скомпрометировать, продаёт канделябр в магазин старинной бронзы, которым владеет мама Саши Смирнова. И Саша, обрадованный, что наконец нашёл пару подаренному канделябру, вручает его доктору…
Proizvedenie iskusstva
Сказка о царе Салтане
Zinaida Brumberg, Valentina Brumberg
Mariya Babanova, Klavdiya Koreneva
The story is about three sisters. The youngest is chosen by Tsar Saltan to be his wife. He orders the other two sisters to be his royal cook and weaver. They become jealous of their younger sister. When the tsar goes off to war, the tsaritsa gives birth to a son, Prince Gvidon (Gvidón.) The older sisters arrange to have the tsaritsa and the child sealed in a barrel and thrown into the sea. The sea takes pity on them and casts them on the shore of a remote island, Buyan. The son, having quickly grown while in the barrel, goes hunting. He ends up saving an enchanted swan from a kite bird. The swan creates a city for Prince Gvidon to rule, but he is homesick, so the swan turns him into a mosquito to help him. In this guise, he visits Tsar Saltan's court, where he stings his aunt in the eye and escapes. Back in his realm, the swan gives Gvidon a magical squirrel. But he continues to pine for home, so the swan transforms him again, this time into a fly.
The Tale of Tsar Saltan
Композитор Глинка
Grigori Aleksandrov
Boris Smirnov, Lev Durasov
The young composer Mikhail Glinka performs his new work at a soiree at earl Vielgorsky's house. However, the public is accustomed to Western music, and reacts coldly to the creation of the composer. This makes him very sad, but soon he decides to go learn the art of music in Italy. After returning from Italy, he is full of desire to write national Russian opera. Vasily Zhukovsky proposes a subject: a feat of Ivan Susanin. Tsar Nicholas I change the name of the opera to A Life for the Tsar and assigns a librettist - Baron Rosen. Acquaintance with the future co-author shocked Glinka: Rosen speaks Russian with a noticeable German accent. The premiere was successful, but Glinka was still not entirely happy with the libretto: "False words were written by Rosen". When Nicholas I learned that Ruslan and Lyudmila was written on Pushkin's subject, he sees it as sedition. The bitter experience of the composer brighten his supporters.
Man of Music
