it will soon be 60 years since makvala kasarashvili became a soloist of the bolshoi theater opera trouperina arkhipova and soprano galina vishnevskaya, and somewhere on the waiting list were young makvala kasarashvili, elena obraztsova and tamara senyavskaya. when i sang on stage big went out of the theater and sat near the opera house. office, a smiling young, beautiful girl came up to me, she congratulated me, and that means we met, this... fell with lena together, i sang aryozomi there, and her then husband, first husband, listened to me, so he reported she said that this was your intern there, and lena then also listened and said, congratulated me and we met, after that we became friends, well, we traveled together, even i remember. you remember elena vasilyevna, she was very generous in friendship in relationships, she was not so often, of course, happened at my performances, but when in her old age she sang turandot and it was a performance dedicated to some kind of my anniversary in the big theater, she still came, she didn’t let me sleep at night, then she talked the whole night,