steam locomotive 25 years later, in the forties at the army theater, the cavalry maiden shurochka azarovaarly some completely irrational coincidence of circumstances, apparently, only an actress with the middle name ivanovna can be approved for the role of the cavalry for the maidens, and the stars just so aligned, so for lyudmila markovna gurchenko, svetlana vladimirovna nemalyaeva and valentina aleksandrovna malyavina, there is of course nothing there luminary, and just a graduate of one of the theater schools larisa golubkina was approved for the main role, she was there she is absolutely good, indeed at some point... for all her attractiveness , one can confuse her with a boy, but of course, the most important discovery, the mythical hero of this production was lieutenant rzhevsky, this role was played by the wonderful artist yuri yakovlev, and, importantly, artist of the vakhtangov theater. the vakhtangov players have always combined a certain academic style of performance, very serious acting and transformation. with outright foolishness, the film, of course, had its own big problem