role that you can show today, for decades there are no people who have ever seen machalov, shchepkin, sadovskysorically very short period, but the people who saw him live , practically no longer exists, on the other hand, this is a time that seems distant and yet close, this is the time of our grandfathers. together with them, at some point, probably starting with the role of yegor bolychev, he simply went up sharply, he was on the first list of those awarded the title of people's artist of the ussr, he received the stalin prize posthumously, he fit everything into these 15-20 years of his creative life, which could be said, judging by what i read and what those who saw him told me about and well.. on the one hand, it combined what was so characteristic of the first generation of vaktang, and not only the first generation, this wonderful theatricality inherited from vaktang, grotesque, irony, sarcasm, those roles that, well, starting there, for example, with the role of tortali in princess torandot in this legendary performance, he was busy, but at the same time, very often... the philosophy of