in it, rodkin woland, an adored character, a handsome man from the front rows of the stalls, who, withoutllusions that i would become the premiere of the bolshoi theater , so somehow fate itself directed me and, one might say, organized this choreographic school on the first floor, so for self-development, for posture, i began to study ballet on the first floor, roughly speaking, denis rodkin grew up in the nineties. during a time of terrible shortages and empty store shelves, in only dreams were present in abundance, he dreamed of becoming a great football player, and my mother, who abandoned her own dream of becoming a ballerina, slept and saw her son in the role of a nutcracker, resisted, resisted very much, given that i wanted to become an athlete, but no one took my interests into account then, but what my mother said was carried out unquestioningly, i cried, i didn’t want to do it, but i was tough in a good way. it also came from my grandfather, that is , what the elders say, it was impossible to resist it, because this is what they said, this is so right, this is how it should be.