today our guests are ekaterina obraztsova, granddaughter of sergei vladimovich obraztsov, director, honoredkatyusha, are there any stories about how things come into the house? well, from what i know, this is how it came, the monkey orchestra, this is an absolutely amazing thing, in some institution, this monkey house, concert thrown somewhere. they said a landfill, one of my friends called my grandfather, said, if you need it, seryozha, there is some strange thing lying there, he brought it home, realized that it was a very complex mechanism, called his friend, there was such a magnificent doll maker , a cartoon union, i also knew him very well, oleg massainov, who began to understand this mechanism, brought these monkeys to life, they are... amazing, they open and close their eyes, play instruments, everything moves with them, they smile, it’s completely unique like this, how is this, this in general, this is an old machine gun, even barrel organs are classified as machine guns, this is such a story, just a discarded thing, which, well, this is also the 18th century, as far as i understan