valentina talyzina, leonid markov, margarita terekhova, gennady bortnikov, tatyana doronina, konstantin em butterfly with counter-tenor eric kurmangaliev and sergei makovetsky in the leading roles. this is how people's artist of the country sergei vasilyevich makovetsky remembers the master. i saved this part of the interview with the great artist, which i took from him last summer during a tour, especially for this program. you and vektyuk are from ukraine, you are from kiev, he is from lvov, you talked and maybe joked in ukrainian, we always spoke, switched to language, and if we are in kiev , if we come here, then i speak ukrainian language, everyone is so amazed and it seems, and you know our language, i say, and after reading the abc book, i will never forget this legendary tour, when we came to kiev with performances, unique performances, um butterfly and... played in the october palace of culture, i go to the performance at 5:00, and i can’t get to the service entrance, because people are standing so close at 5 o’clock, i shouted to the guards, they pushed me with their elbows an