yavtushenko and i, and alexy semenovich came to visit me, lived there for 2 months, when he left tulsa, atalsa you know , oklahoma, as it is, the oil industry, when he was leaving, the russian embassy decided to hold a reception for oil company executives, they filmed large hall and invited a leading jazz group from new orleans. jazz, and such venerable musicians arrived, so cool , they enter the rehearsal, and alexey semyonovich comes, they are like, what kind of russian, now who will play with us, we will applaud, what kind of russian has come, okay, let’s listen, there was a rehearsal for 3 hours, alexey semyonovich went to put on his jacket, and i stayed with the musicians, with the americans, and the leader of this jazz group nervously lit a cigarette when he finished smoking. musical group, which is generally in siberia there was our own musical group, i see, yes, that’s what we knew, a great musician, but you were also quite famous, they recognized us on the streets, as they now recognize, for example, the same one there, the same seryozha shnurov in st. petersburg, and we were laureate