Russian Empire, mid-19th century. The aged, impoverished dramatic actor Lev Gurych Sinichkin wanders around the cities with his young daughter Lisa in search of work. They dream that Lisa will someday succeed on stage and become a famous actress.

Once in another provincial town, Lev Sinichkin, seeing on the theater poster the name of a familiar actress - Raisa Minichna Surmilova, tries with her help to attach her daughter to the theater. But a local prima donna with a quarrelsome character offers Lisa the place of a “person involved” - an ordinary actress in the crowd, and then completely refuses Sinichkin, not allowing any rivalry on stage.

Lev Gurych, who does not want to back down, resorts to trickery and deceit, trying to replace Surmilova with his Lisa at the next performance. Enraged Surmilova, who has great connections and high patrons, begins to take revenge ...

☆Vasiliy Merkurev   ☆Liliya Yudina ☆Tatyana Karpova ☆Nikolai Afanasyev ☆Mikhail Yanshin ☆Yuriy Lyubimov ☆Sergei Blinnikov ☆Stanislav Chekan

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DMITRIEVA GALINA SOSLANBEKOVNA (1919-2014) - Graphic artist, painter, book illustrator, member of the Moscow, Russian and International Unions of Artists. Daughter of painter Galina Shubina and artist, sculptor Soslanbek Tavasiyev.

Graduated from the Moscow Art Institute. Surikov (workshop of the famous Russian artist M. M. Cheremnykh) in 1955. The artist's interests are focused on the modern world around her - it is reflected in numerous portraits of her contemporaries, landscapes, everyday sketches. The collection of works by G. Dmitrieva includes hundreds of works: paintings, book illustrations, albums, and so on. They were repeatedly exhibited at general and personal exhibitions of the artist. In the classification of the Unified Artistic Rating of the Professional Union of Artists, he has the status of 4A - a professional artist with creative potential, who has a perspective assessment of specialists.

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BOIM RAKHIL SOLOMONOVNA (1928-) - Soviet artist, graphic artist, poster artist. Member of the Union of Artists of the USSR (since 1957). Honored Artist of Russia (2002).

Born in Moscow on October 1, 1928 in the family of the artist Solomon Boim. Sister of the artist, poster artist Alexander Boim.

In 1956-1958. on the posters she signed her husband's surname - Savostyuk R.

She studied at the Moscow Art School with A. G. Sukiasyan and S. P. Mikhailov (1944–1949). She studied at the graphic department of the Moscow State Art Institute named after V. I. Surikov (1949–1953). Her teachers are M. S. Rodionov, M. A. Dobrov, M. M. Cheremnykh, N. A. Ponomarev and Yu. P. Reiner. Since 1952 - participant of all-Union, republican, zonal, Moscow and foreign exhibitions.

Collaborated with the publishing house "Soviet artist"; author of socio-political posters: “The income of the collective farm is your property. Multiply it with your labor!” (together with I. V. Kalenskaya, 1966), “The path to abundance is work!” (together with I. V. Kalenskaya, 1967).

Created a film poster from 1956 to 1967 for "Reklamfilm". The first works together with Galina Dmitrievna. In total, she performed 39 movie posters, including “Welcome, or No Trespassing” (1964) and “1002nd Night” (1965).

Since 1971, creative interests have been closely associated with a large group of watercolor artists. This group included watercolor masters from Moscow, Leningrad, the Baltic states, Ukraine, the Caucasus, etc. Creative trips gave themes to such series of watercolors by R. S. Boim as “In the Altai Mountains”, “In the Tundra”, “Memories of Karelia”, "In the Far East", "In Turkmenistan", "White Sea Autumn", etc.

Works by R. S. Boim are included in the collections of the State Museums of Ashgabat, Bishkek, Lvov, Tyumen, Novokuznetsk, Vladivostok.