e of the russian federation vanguard nikolaevich leontiev hello avangard. hello nikolaevich.ich is very glad that you have agreed to come and talk about literature with us. about the theater, of course, but hmm and e according to tradition. let's start from the very beginning. well, how did it happen with you that you became an actor, uh, a banal question weird question. well, sometimes it happens, by chance, sometimes this is the essence of the life of the most childhood years, how it all happened with you avangay nikolaevich my father dreamed nikolai ivanovich dreamed of being an actor and even he entered, he was engaged in amateur performances in the city of orel and even he entered, uh, to the seldu- meerhold at the highest director's course, he wrote a terrific, uh, explication of the play based on the children of vanyushin found and he should have been accepted or accepted, but my mother, and not already married at that time. here she is somehow bohemian. here you go i was afraid i should not let my father go. you are her representation of the theater - this is, first o