portrait of alexandra petrovna struyskaya about this portrait, the poet nikolai zabolotsky wrote ther eyes, like two fogs, a half-smile, half- cry her eyes, like two deceptions of misty-covered failures, the combination of two riddles of half-stories, a lizbuk of insane tenderness, a fit of anticipation mortal torment well, let's try to hear. this portrait of alexander petrovna with a trickle of fyodor's roar about 20 years ago we came here to shoot a picture of a mechanical piano. this house, this park was inhabited, then chekhov's characters they suffered here, loved each other, said nonsense all this together. uh the world of chekhov's heroes and in general the world of that time chekhov said that russians adore their past, hate the present and fear the future. probably, there is a certain truth of the russian character in this, and it would be very sad if it were only in this way, although if you think about it, then, probably, in all this, in what chekhov said, there is another side that gives hope, without which e is not a russian person, not a russian culture, for the future o