"In the evening restaurants, in Parisian buffoons, in a cheap electric paradise, I break my arms all the night with fury and anguish and people sing something plaintive."

A wonderful Russian poet and singer, the magnificent Alexander Vertinsky, lived a difficult life.

"I ask at least a little kindness to forget this wild deception."

He lost his parents early, wandered a lot around the world, often suffered from unsettled and lack of money.

He was loved by beautiful women, he was happy in marriage with his second wife.

He wrote about love with mild irony and tenderness:

"How good it is without a woman, without phrases, without bitter words and sweet kisses, without those dear, too honest eyes that lie to you and are still jealous of you!"

For many years he performed on the stage, enjoyed a well-deserved popularity.

"And when the morning comes, I rave boulevard sleepy, where in fright even the children run away from me. I'm a tired old clown, I wield a cardboard sword, and in the rays of my crown a light of the day dies. "

Sergei Fedotov, a talented young artist, in the image of Alexander Vertinsky is very convincing and bright. Brilliant production!