the first, in fact, and we recently learned the name of another early russian animator alexander shiryaevppet animation and hand-drawn animation, but in his main profession he was actually a chryographer. he worked in st. petersburg. it was his hobby, he sketched the movement of actors and created puppets in order to remember himself and then dancer to show some steps and it remained his hobby. that is, it was never seen by anyone, except there friends of family acquaintances, and then lay for more than 100 years in the home archives. and just at the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century, it was brought to light, and stareevich had a producer. of course, we didn’t call him that then, but alexander khanzhonkov was the first real russian such, uh, filmmaker, as the film producer then said, he took stareevich under his wing. yes, he understood that this strange little man who prefers to do everything himself the one who turns the handle of the movie camera himself makes his animals. and if you leave one practically in a locked room for a while, he will bring you one c