A musical based on a story by L.N. Tolstoy's "Holstomer"

"... Only the one who has something to say to people can write a drama and say something that is most important for people." L. Tolstoy
Today the philosophical parable of Leo Tolstoy, in which "Tolstoyism" as an entire world-consciousness has been embodied in art, continues to live not only in the literary work but also on the stage, deeply touching our souls, forcing us to reflect on evil and good, sin and responsibility for sin, About animal and human, about life and death ... Created by Mark Rozovsky and Yuri Ryashentsev, the play "The Story of a Horse" - in the genre of the "Russian musical" based on classical literature - has been on the stage since 1975.
Mark Rozovsky about the play:
"It seemed possible to clarify the Tolstoyan idea: debauchery and luxury, debauchery and idleness - always together ... What Tolstoy-psychologist called the" fluidity "of a person, referring to the ambiguity of the characters, the impossibility of" positive "and" negative "in pure human form, gives The right of the theater to ensure the "flow" of characters from one to another for a more explicit, if you like, visual form of expression of the author's thought.Tolstoy is simple.Will we have the right to complicate it so much? .. And to what extent is this so-called complication permissible?
... The classic is therefore alive, that is immortal. It arises in our life as a deep and subtle interlocutor. "How should we live?" - we ask Leo Tolstoy himself, and he as if personally answers us: "I'll tell you now ..." And he tells, for example, the story of Kholstomer ... "