petersburg and entered the class of the famous reprinter professor alexander ivanovich belshchuk. uh, and so i finished my graduate school there . i'll tell you that these e, a few years that i spent in st. petersburg have had a very strong influence on me. and when i was studying, i went to an international competition in poland. imagine a person taking his first steps as a conductor and in his second year. i went. i won this competition. i got the first prize and the uh audience award and the orchestra award, and i didn't understand at the time. e what is it? i realized that something unique was happening here in my life. i saw people walking around congratulating me. eh, and then i began to understand how serious this is and how difficult it will not be in the future. why because , yes, winning the competition is really an achievement, but keep on keeping this bar. and even higher. it is necessary to swim to raise this bar and develop. and so can you imagine, i returned, er, then, to st. petersburg after the competition and i was simply felt like , well, i don’t know, as a hero