Chekhov's heroes are just people, like all of us. These are human types, of which there are a great many. Chekhov is like a photographer, he captures random faces, not choosing beautiful or significant, just different faces of ordinary people. So the hero of his story "My Life" is a certain man with a strange name Misail, the most ordinary ordinary man in the street. He does not pretend to any higher abilities, he is quite clearly aware of his ordinariness, but he is trying to find meaning in his life, to find himself. The nobleman Misail goes to work as an ordinary painter. It is not a shame to engage in physical labor, it is a shame to sort through pieces of paper - he thinks, not seeing any heroism in his act. But in a small provincial town - this event is out of the ordinary, someone despises him, someone sees in him an outstanding person who decided to rebel. Bored young ladies are looking for acquaintance with him. The daughter of a wealthy engineer Masha decides to become his wife in order to make the world a better place together. But when and who succeeded?

The irony of Chekhov, as always, is kind and murderous at the same time. Banal, if not to say, vulgar plots are thrown up by life, and they constitute its content. Doctor Blagovo, dreaming of progress, calmly seduces sister Misail, not thinking that he is doing something shameful. In the story "My Life" there is no final morality, Chekhov does not condemn, Chekhov offers a sketch from the life of the Russian province. What has changed in this life? Yes, by and large nothing. People also love, deceive others and themselves, and everyone also suffers. And in this suffering they seek the truth.

The young director Yegor Ravinsky, who has undertaken to stage one of Chekhov's most complex works, is trying to convey Chekhov's world through theatrical means. His performance is filled with metaphors, it is bright in form, sometimes paradoxical, sometimes poetic. But at the same time, he was able to see the hidden passions of the restless human soul behind the everyday life of any human life. As the director himself admits: “For me, a performance is a piece of life ...” And, probably, what he lived through, who composed this performance, will become a part of the life of everyone who sees it.