And again our song is above the ground. A bright light sounded, suddenly poured out from above, a kind fairytale light, in it the beginning, the beginning, of our life, our dreams, may the lights not dim, the barking joyful eyes. I want you to be lucky, i want from the bottom of my heart that you will be in great and the heart is light, in this festive light, it is not in vain that we are in love, let them fly. Above the earth of the year, but i teach and love, like the pokes of spring, we will keep for ourselves forever, let the lights not fade, of your dear eyes, i want you. To be lucky, i want from the bottom of my heart that we have become with you, in your bag , my heart is light. Thank you life for the day to come again , for the bread to ripen and for the children to grow up, thank you life for all the dear People Living in such. In a smart world, thank you life for the fact that this generous century resounded in me with joy, then with pain, suturing your birth, in which a person, having experienced everything , becomes himself, and what are you, a river without banks, for every spring and winter from all your friends, and even from enemies, thank you life, thank you for everything, for tears for happiness on eve, for that, what you you dont feel sorry for me for every moment in which i live, but not for the one that i will stop, thank you life that i am in debt to you, for the past tomorrows strength, for everything that i am looking for. but i can do it in time, thank you life, im afraid of the topic, thank you for being a river without banks, for every spring and winter for all your friends and even for enemies. Thank you life, for everything to you, thank you, for the tears, for the happiness on him, for the fact that you didnt feel sorry for me, for every moment in which i live, but not for the one in which i stop. There is no such country anymore. Simply the most huge, the biggest, she is the most beloved, the most beautiful, the most diverse , the kindest, eyes like the blue sky, ladies, ladies, beauties of russia, i am raising three children in literally 3 months i will become a father again, i will have a fourth son, i fell in love with fishing several years ago, literally every minute you only manage to pull out small perches, i used to go to dances, but i didnt like it and now i. She will develop with us, what is the next milestone in life, what ends and what begins, i will tell you about myself in order. To better understand ourselves, for us ballet age flows differently, what does the usual 30 mean, actually the start of a career, for us appatheos and a quick finale, what does 50 mean now for nikolai tsyskarinza . I ask myself this question and give you the answer. They made it clearly, stand arina, and the hand is soft, and the fun doesnt get stuck, arm, shoulder moves, shoulder, hand moves. Were traveling from st. Petersburg, how often do you take this train , which means its mandatory twice a week, but sometimes i travel back and forth three times a week, either on sofsan, or at night, ill arrive on sofsan, therell be a meeting, ill go back, just like that , yes, three times, 10 years, yes, without stopping, i live in this train. One profession had already ended, but another had begun, and to be honest, i waited for a long time that by the age of 40 i would begin to suffer very much, that my dancing career would end, but i was so happy, i didnt even expect it from myself such a reaction, well, ive reached another mark of 50, and no one knows how much more time the almighty will give this time, but at least im trying to somehow think about what was done well and. And what i would like to improve , the big theater is a house , this is what my skin is, i consist of everything that is beautiful, that there is everything there, even the bad, this is a very tough place, it is the most, very tough, but only that is good there, success only accompanies the one he chose. The genius of the theater himself and i know this for sure, because even very many came Famous Artists, they tried to do something, the singers could not be heard, the dancers failed one after another, so fate itself chose someone, i was just a child, when i saw the postcard, i pointed my finger at this postcard, saying that i will be in charge here, and somehow this happened, i just had from the very beginning some kind of wild confidence that. This is my home, from the first second until today, there was some kind of execution in this, thats it, lets go home, i dont even know, thats how to tell you, thats it its all so familiar. That i cant even describe to you, im all at home, this theater lives in my soul, because it and i, for me its the same thing, here is the place of power, here is the place of energy, here is the place of apollo, here i am all my life im looking at this lampshade. All my life i have been serving apollo, well, we are now on the fourth tier, this beautiful view through this chandelier, it was different, i saw the play and the hall of the big theater for the first time, and somehow i fell in love with this place so much, then i kept coming here time is back, here it is very you feel when there is no one, when the lights are off, that you are in. A stage, there were fights on the stage, swearing everywhere, here you cant imagine that there was a clash of factions, yes, and i was dancing all the time, i had all the time there were performances, because all the Famous Artists were adult artists, they were experienced people , they took sick leave and disappeared so as not to participate in anything, but i, as a young man , danced and danced all the time, often coming here, i convinced myself, but i im not afraid of anything. On my first day of service i bought a book boris pokrovsky, our brilliant opera director, who staged a huge number of performances here, i bought a book, which was called as being kicked out of. By mothers, grandmothers, who were waiting for their children, when i was already admitted to school, my mother naturally went through these yards to look for someone who would rent us a room, because my mother was categorically against boarding school, she didnt want me to live in a boarding school, so we rented a room right there, right on the seventh floor, and it was such a real communal apartment with gangs s. S a huge amount of things in the corridor , but i didnt care at all, i wanted to study so much, i didnt care about anything at all, but the most important thing is that i spent 40 seconds on the way to school, and from my window i can see exactly that place, where i stood, from my living room, from my place, i kept looking at my window, all the time i thought, and theres my mother, and my mother loves me even when im so ugly and untalented. Which nothing works out, and it helped me a lot. Hall number 16, my teacher always taught there, thats where i studied, pyotr antonovich pestov. This was his favorite hall, when he was already a pregraduation, senior class, we studied all the time in this hall, from morning to evening, our classes sometimes lasted 6 hours in a row, it was very , quite intense work. I remember very well one fine day, i was lightly in tears, my tears welled up very quickly, and somewhere i was probably already 17 years old, when i stood there, looking out of this window. On my window, and i saw how a large can of fruit juice appeared on the window, and i thought, well, let nothing work out, but they are waiting for me at home, its warm at home, my tears have dried up, this home warmth helped me so much that i had some kind of confidence inside that was completely different. You know, if i dont see my reflection in the mirror, i feel like im still five years old, probably just like i was sitting there, playing alone on the veranda and imagining something, then i was playing on tv, then i was playing theater, then i played doctor, then i played space, then i played the great patriotic war, but i played with myself all the time, i had a huge amount toys, when i see my reflection, of course i understand how old i am, because my profession, again. It taught me to stand in front of the mirror every day, because of this, by the way, i dont wear lenses, so as not to see myself clearly, i never wanted to see myself up close, imagine, i never accepted this appearance, i wanted to see there, apparently robert ratford or lauren beatty, but no, it was immediately closed, it was the month of january, in the sixth year they brought me to see, i was in second grade, and well they said that i supposedly had no abilities , it was so untrue, no matter how many years have passed, no matter how many years i come to the stairs of my native school, i remember the day when i went down and cried when i was not accepted the first time, but i was sure, what i would do , and that my mother constantly dissuaded me, all my relatives constantly dissuaded me, i remember. There was one evening in tbilis , everyone just gathered and they convinced me that this was not my thing at all, i didnt need to do this, but i said , no, you dont understand, i have everything i have the ability, i fought with a huge number of people, but i didnt understand some kind of really hard work, and then it happened that i was accepted, it was august 31 , 1987, well, thats it, i entered school on september 1. In eightyseven i was running along these stairs, theres Something Else connected with it, my name is nika, yes, its the same shortened name as kolya, only georgians call Nikolai Nikolai at home, and my aunt tells me in the morning, she says, dont tell me that your name is nika, because girls are called nika, i tell her, oh well, i say, i like my name, i want to be nika, and i run, so with flowers, you can already imagine, they were happy to accept me. Suddenly someone shouts nika, nika , i turn around, and a girl is following me, when i walked in, they asked me what my name was, i said nikolai, and the teacher said, kolya, so thats what im saying, probably thats what im saying became kolya, so they renamed me too on this staircase, now you probably understand your mother well, who, while still quite a young woman. In her prime, she essentially abandoned her own, absolutely, she completely refused, my mother would have turned 60 years old, when i was going through such a bad period, i was just 18 years old, when i was in big conflict with her, and i graduated from school, many friends came to her, in general , apparently, i somehow answered her impudently in front of everyone, but as a wellmannered boy, i accompanied them all to the metro. There were several women who studied with her at moscow state university, they told me nika, you behave like this and talk to your mother like this, but dont think, she has an education for a reason, she was an incomparable clever girl, when we were studying, we thought that she would be marie curie, but life turned out that way, well, everything went differently, i returned home, and since i ll repeat it again, this is the period when. Boys very often dont understand that they can hurt their mother with one word, i told her, well, look, nothing worked out in your life, arent you offended that nothing worked out for you, suddenly shes absolutely so calm without, like i remembered this many times, nika told me, you know, i ve been killing myself for so long that everything in my life is it turned out, well, its very bad in the profession there and so on, thats just all life. To hell, that when i suddenly gave birth at the age of 43, i realized that my destiny was to be a mother, and i decided that i. Would truly realize my destiny, these words seemed to me such pathos, i cannot describe to you, through 2 years, well, almost two years later, but my mother passed away, and i already began to grow up, every time i came across a certain accomplishment that i understood, this is what my mother did for me, this is also what she did for me did, did this for me, i understood that she truly. Was a mother all the time, that when she stood on the scales, it was her personal happiness or my interest, my interest always won, at the age of 18 i i couldnt understand, i only understood this when i became an adult, when i experienced what love is, what physical pleasure is, what pain from parting is, something and so on, when i finally turned 40. 3 years , i thought, my mother just gave birth to me at this age. Now, looking at some of my acquaintances, friends, and seeing how they communicate with their children, i always, of course, relate to my beautiful blooming mother, whose husband is 16 years younger, who adores her, carries her in his arms, what if she says thats it, comrade , were finishing up with you, im leaving for moscow because of my son, i remember how he stood, he was in shock, a handsome, healthy man who generally. Couldnt understand why because of this brat his life is crumbling, i was not a mothers boy, i didnt have any baby talk with me, then she she was always busy, working, i was busy studying, to be honest, it seemed to me that i didnt see her at all, she was just everywhere, i didnt know that she was everywhere, that she had already run everywhere, laid her down here, yes, yes, thats it this , this is amazing, in this, of course , a person is lucky, i. I studied in the era of a great man, sofia nikolaevna golovkina, there is a memorial plaque for her, i am very happy, i have a direct connection to this, because when received permission, there was no money, and i turned to my friends. Rostec allocated money, this memorial plaque exists thanks to this, i am very happy, because sofia nikolaevna was truly a great person, this was all built thanks to her such an administrative genius, when i became the rector, i look up only to her, and sof nikolaevna to she treated me very warmly, it was march of ninety one, and of course, well, this collapse since. The soviet union, the change in money, abrupt, my mother had a stroke, i was a child, i didnt really understand, a neighbor came in, she i realized that it was a stroke, she started calling , they came quickly, they said, we wont take it, we wont take it, but at that moment we are having a seminar at the academy and there are delegations from all 15 republics and my class is always on something. Demonstrates to me, i resort and naturally in some. Matinees are a huge success among the audience, and it is very symbolic to see how a young, unfamiliar tribe masters the famous stage. Many children even today dance sick and even hide. Our Young Children understand that they must work to earn money for yourself. Guys, tell me, what, what is more in your profession, moments of happiness or blood, tears, what is your profession . Well , of course, there are also difficulties in our profession, but these are all very small, there are few of them compared to what we get, and standing on the stage of a large theater when we have a full hall is a great happiness for me and for my partner, the first time i came on this stage. I did something wrong, it wasnt very fun, i had the feeling that Yuri Nikolaevich looks from everywhere, apparently because i am grigorovichs artist, apparently because i. Hello. Today, for the first time, a unique spectacle awaits us , his name is obrek, i said that i would bring the best fighter, volodya ignatiev, an afghan, a sapper, such a guy, this is my money too, and i want to fight for it, reed, what are you talking about, yes i dont know, its some kind of premonition, girls, i deceived you, there wont be a concert, you promised us 40 dollars. And these are our girls, ill put them all here now, he ll kill you. Well hello, jaeger, shes nobody to you, why did you get involved in this . Its him, then, the one who saved me, youre nobody to each other, this is chechnya, we cant do this, we tell you, sapyon, whose path you crossed, i cant live without him. Abrek, the premiere of a multipart film, tomorrow after the program its time, yes, go home, wolf, what do you want with him . Do it, go away, let me buy it from you, saslan ivanovich, hello, dear, heres saslan ivanovich, hes known me since childhood, from school, he can tell you a lot, hello, hello, and he came, im already 10 worked, with he was in charge of his very, very childhood, of course , he shone, but. I come, he says, open up to me why did you come, i say, there is giselle, i want this composition, you dont need to watch, you see, there were such individuals here who they could have told you, my dear, youre sick , you need to get treatment, because yesterday there was a performance, apparently something was wrong, she didnt like it, she didnt tell me that i was very ill, i just needed to get treatment, thats all. There was my beloved nelechka, the kingdom of heaven, the illuminator, every time i appeared, she shouted as soon as i add light today, and she had such big breasts, like, well light you up, now, i grew up in their arms, how could i relate to them, i adored them all, i needed their respect, but it was not bought, dear, glorious, ring, you, my dear, have the opportunity to communicate with eternity, with god, with this piggy bank of powerful emotional, creative energy. Nature has so generously gifted you with beauty, intelligence and talent, you have made wonderful use of all this, this is your life path, your love for the profession, your achievements. Creative and human, since childhood i dreamed of being a bullina, but somehow you and i diverged in time to be born into this world, and i understand that due to this i will not be able to enjoy your support. I am now. Girlfriend , alla mikhalchenko, peoples artist , she was then my partner for many years , to this day we are very friends, and the chalochka usually always sat with her back, she opened it. And it so happened that some stupid rumors began to spread, but i involuntarily, thats why for friendship with her, as if it was clear to everyone that im in a group grigorovich, because she was grigorovichs artist, and some people automatically stopped saying hello to me, and even though i didnt say anything except hello, never, but already automatically me. I was very impudent, then it just happened that they stopped everyone call, say that you please come, sign, that it was not a sudden strike, but it was planned, and i refused, they called me again, they said you will be fired, he said, well , fire me, like im free, i have no relatives , ill get settled, then it turned out that i was the only person. Any theater, any, any clash of ambitions, jealousy, envy, this leads sometimes to tragic consequences, but remaining human in this is the most difficult thing, i know what helped me, i know, i always looked at those who were older than me and i thought to myself, i dont want to do that, i dont want to go barking at everyone, i dont want to go around for. The whole pandemic, so i was working on the brains and body of this individual, for me Nikolai Maksimovich is a man of extraordinary magnitude and he simply turned my life and i dont i kind of know what Nikolai Maksimovich means to me, no one means to me as much as he does, well, yes, yes, katya, yes, thats it. Correctly and completely, you get the feeling that you are always on the side of good, you dont have this doubt, which seems to be. Tempting you, this is the strongest temptation, no, i was strongly tempted, why not, well, first of all , i was tempted to betray all the time, i adore the film devils advocate, when alpacina says at the end, vanity is my favorite sin, because i love vanity in many ways, because my vanity did not allow me to be lazy, to be a bad student, to be not completely, well, sort of organized. Im a very lazy person, of course, i have this sin of laziness, it goes over all other sins, of course, but vanity helped me in this case, i knew that now someone would refuse the performance, i definitely took this performance , because i knew for 20 years, soon there wont be this time when i have an extra performance, i have to eat, but it was all thanks to the glory of this proud. Parable, it was winter and the little sparrow was very cold , but a cow passed by, she made a pile, he jumped into this pile, warmed up, scribbled , the cat heard him, came and ate him, and the moral of it all is, youre sitting in the shit, nothing, apparently, i started raising her nose just a little, marina timofeevna, passing by me, said, nicherika. if we talk about the premiere role, this is the nutcracker, there was some kind of celebration here, the thirteenth friday, you know, well, what could be more terrible for a debut, on this day there was a new moon, im going out from the entrance, here comes a black cat, she was standing right there on the threshold, she had reached halfway, i was standing there, i was looking at her like that, i understood that i would not leave the entrance, i was very superstitious, suddenly the cat looked at me, turned around and went back. And i come to the theater, in general, i am being made up, suddenly one of the leading people comes in and says to me, look how interesting it is, you are the thirteenth performer of the role of the nutcracker, and today is the thirteenth, i say, like the thirteenth, he shows me the list turns out that starting from the sixtysixth years since vladimir vasiliev, who danced the premiere, im only the thirteenth performer, imagine, even here, of course. This is not a coincidence, such coincidences dont happen, it was my third year of service in the big theater, i was released as a prince, and Yuri Nikolaevich, he was very sensitive to the material, if he hadnt structured my life so competently, then i probably wouldnt have it would have turned out successfully later, because i am strong, by the age of 21 i was already so strong, i had such a reserve of strength and strength that it was just like a pancake. Ive already baked further roles, for for six months i danced 13 parts like this, just one with the other. He is a professional of the highest class and an artist, i always evaluate a character in such a way that he is diverse, and i always remember the moment when he was assigned to dance not the prince in swan lake, but the evil genius, and so he managed to develop his part in such a way that people admired the evil genius, not the prince. The prince turned pale, everyone went to watch. Right now there are nutcrackers, which are impossible to attend, there is a lot of excitement, it is clear that i have been participating in this performance for 21 years, i. More than any of the performers, specifically he was a prince, yes, he appeared on stage 101 times in this image, there were years when they wanted to remove this little man, this particular performance, i put a huge amount of effort into not touching this performance, and maybe in in many ways, he is alive now only because then, at the beginning of the 2000s, i fought for this, because every new director wants to stage his own version, the nutcracker is the best selling performance, they want to receive copyrights. Why does grigorovich get they think well make better money, but i was against it, because i really had nothing to do with it, i was just saving a great performance, and so i ve removed more than one performance here, but i did it for everyone, you know, and then, when they celebrated the 500th performance, the 500th out of 101 of which i danced, everyone was promoting it, only two people were not remembered, vladimir vasiliev, who danced the premiere and me. That is, i danced the most in this performance, but i thought, since Vladimir Viktorovich was not remembered, after all, im in good company, i really wanted to dance anegin, i always wanted to, this is my favorite novel, when i left the theater, this performance was staged, they did everything on purpose so that i would not perform it, the germans who. Did this performance came and said, we go asking, give tsiskaridze, here we need a dancer, only of his class and his qualifications, the management of the big theater said, no, whoever you want, but he wont come on stage, i kept looking at these people who fought with me, they always they wanted to bend me over they wanted to get a bow from me, they didnt understand that this is the only thing they will never get, they can kill me, well , its unlikely they will succeed, but they bow. A bow only if i respect a person, i will stand on my knee before talent, before professionalism, before any great master, and of course before a woman, because thats how i was raised, yes, especially by adults, but before rudeness, before stupidity, before stupidity, at no cost. It is impossible, it is impossible to let managers into art, we have come to the point where we need to understand that managers in the arts are a disaster, because i am happy for the big theater that gergiev came, someone is scolding there, someone, i say, gentlemen, there has not been a master of this caliber in this theater for the last 30 years, it was headed by people with market into yours. Forced to look in the mirror, im sure well have to replace everyone, force them to work differently, no state spends so much money on maintenance, no bodies, no schools, no one does this, but china imitates us, china is we do, but they have their own little traditions, we still have ours, therefore i have hope that we will return it after all. The condition that nikolai tsyskaridze sometimes experienced and is experiencing. He can hardly bear them, they are largely related to the scale of his talent, which cannot but give rise to a feeling of some envy from those around him; sometimes kolya does not have enough strength to do something. Let it go past the ears, past the eyes, then he becomes conflicted, but he is like that. And he cannot be different, then it will not be tsiskaridze. Our studio has wonderful artists who donated their voices for your favorite characters. Go ahead, kostya raikin agreed to star in this film only because i voiced it. I tried to act in such a way that it was comfortable in the frame. Vanya, i am yours forever. I myself didnt know that it was me. Yes, its not me, i refused. Our school, where i studied, we opened, we danced in the Sleeping Beauty there in alsa, and i asked to be included in the list, everyone warned me that the entire politburo was in the hall, you will be kicked out, i say, nothing, i ill settle down somehow, i hid here and no one found me, but here i am i stood there and saw this concert, and the most important stars of our country at that time, those who were young, took part in the concert. Then, who was considered , they were well over 26, they were also not the first freshness, but all the greatest, they were well over 50, and some were over 60, and for the first time i saw the whole light of our fatherland in ballet, live, i i only saw them on tv in pictures, i remember then that they made a terrible impression on me ; they were not young men in tights. And i, standing here, made a promise to myself that if someday i will become a Prime Minister, thats what i dream about, no one will ever see me on the old stage. On june 5, 1992, i received my diploma, i had three invitations, to the bolshoi theater, to the stanislavsky theater for classical ballet, i said to the bolshoi, suddenly i met pesty in the corridor, and he said to me listen, you know, he says, yours nature will be beautiful while it is fresh. For more than 20 years, dont dance, dont do anything stupid. I say, well, pyotr antonovich, well, well, why are you limiting me so much, what is 20 . He says, well ok, well, 21, it so happened that my last performance, as the premiere of the bolshoi theater, happened on june 5, 2013, exactly 21 years after i made this promise to him, i m taking off my makeup. I said everything, and the thunderer tells me, well, if this cant be, no , you wont be able to finish, i say, thats it, thats it , so, i also danced giselle, there at the beginning albert runs to the house to knock, and i understood, that im not running, but im walking quickly, that i m saving my strength, you know, so the bell, yes, thats it, i started saving my strength, i dont, i remembered these words the dog all the time. I came out as a prince, there were such dancers in front of me that i had to somehow perform it in a way that would not only be memorable, but so that, firstly, katya, heres the body, the body, the body, you know, i noticed one thing, very much more long ago, when i was an artist, that i am a very grateful spectator , when i see something good, i shout with pleasure, bravo, i applaud a lot, but when i see something bad, especially from those in whom i have invested a huge amount of love and uh , it makes sense, when i see that im ashamed, that makes me very sad. Sometimes i even get sick im starting, unfortunately, to have a lot of disappointments, and the most bitter feeling , i know, is disappointment and the knee opens , the leg, right away, the head, where, the head, the neck, the look, where, frozen, once, what kolya experienced as an artist is rare who had it on this earth to be a star of soviet and. Russian ballet, wow, this is serious, the life of ballet dancers is short, still short, it is much shorter than a human life, if it is already in a different phase of its life, i want him to really want to serve the stage, even if not as a performer today. V as those whom he blesses there, well , you have several students, they are for marco jaucello, he is the premier in poland, misha barzhidzhi, he is in the australian ballet and oscar frame, my englishman, lasagne, bijara ballet. I was surprised and still am surprised how Nikolai Maksimovich can manage everything in his career, in his life, and how he can do it all efficiently, he taught me to work not only with the body with breathing, with the brain, a ballet dancer has no brain, then he is not a ballet dancer, you see where i get the syncopation, oscar got it, little bit. And oscar is just him every time he reads something new, he writes to me, what is his impression there, what did he experience, what feelings, he is a very deep boy, i remember we came to the restaurant, i, well, i asked them, what are you you like meat, they told me yes, i understand that they want meat, we came to the steakhouse. And i say , well, order it, and misha means, and he s so skinny, and he takes it, she asks, 350, she says, he says half a kilo, half a kilo of steak, and i say misha, if you put it on your chest, hell cover yours chest completely this steak, he says nothing, i ill eat, they brought him this half a kilo, and i just sat there, i said, its not a pity, i ll buy you more, youre just wondering where its going to be compacted, where is the place . We were lucky when he showed some exercises, showed how to do a combination or jump correctly, a small gift, to watch him learn, and the best thing, this is praise, is when Nikolai Maksimovich said that he was not ashamed, but for the performance, for the performance, it was generally like a balm on the heart, Nikolai Maksimovich even reached an agreement with the catherine palace. Issued diplomas graduates in the palace, such beauty was a lifelong memory, for me Nikolai Maksimovich is even a dear person, i cant imagine mine. Nikolai maksimovich, you are amazing at running the school, the training of your students is simply visible, it has always been a vaganova school, but now you continued this great tradition, they are different, all your dancers who came from the st. Petersburg school, i would like. You have not lost this thirst for new knowledge, thirst for new achievements, thirst for new productions, because this is such a gift, this is happiness is brings extraordinary pleasure and satisfaction, both for you and for us. 10 years ago we kind of parted ways with the stage, so its better for. I dance even as a precaution, first of all, because the audience wants it, for me this is actually a very difficult event, i have to give my body another shakeup, and i too i get great pleasure from the fact that i receive this audience. The performance continues in st. Petersburg at the mikhailovsky theater as an even precaution, and it was nikolais desire maksimovich to dance my mother. Dear friends, in such a wonderful, unusual image today i and my stage and professional daughter, and my dear one. And before that, he danced my lover, but he still dreams of being my dad in the play rama gillette. 10 years ago, when you first arrived as the head of vakanovka , it was also not easy, terribly difficult, you remember the day when you got ready to go to st. Petersburg, thats what was in your heart, im a person who knows how to put together things like that will in fist to take a step when there was this presentation of me as the rector, when. But everyone present behaved very ugly and the minister of culture then vladimirislavich midinsky was very worried, and he saw that when i spoke, everyone fell silent when someone there tried something to say, i said, if you interrupt me, i wont be able to speak, and people stopped talking altogether, when it was all over, we left, he told me, nikolai, im shocked by your composure, i. Told some , at least you have your own honor, leave, because well, you are already crossing the borders, and i wont allow you to cross this border, but many work, i have a lot of teachers in my team, well, now there are fewer, unfortunately, who are 90 plus , they. One time they began to swear and fight with their handbags in front of my eyes, right during the discussion, all this was not for something there, but for the method of classical dance, suddenly, when. They heard the girls, well, lets do it. Somehow more constructive, they stopped short, because the girls only returned to them, for a long time such was the leader, konstantin mikhailovich sergeev, the greatest dancer, it turns out that he called them that, i instinctively told them, and i told them, well, somehow i had to somehow resolve the situation, because there was a fight, i tell them, girls, you understand, after ulanova and semyonova in the big theater, all the other fights, it seems to me, are. Mouse races, the mouse railway at teresa durovas there, you see, they all laughed, it all somehow disappeared into the snow, well talk with our guest, founder and artistic eternos music director, the outstanding conductor teodor kurendis. What is the task, to get the public out of the state. Comfort is not comfort what we are looking for, how can it be comfortable when you always want to create new new, new new, in general mortier is not the one who created brilliant performances, what he did, he opened the boundaries with this, gerard martier, a legendary figure who i think played a huge role in your professional life, i talked to him for 15 minutes, he wrote text messages. But yes, a little is allowed, but what should i do . If i love you, from monday on the first, and well done, softly, softly, girls, softly, what did you do, beautiful, katyunya, the heel is placed, play, added, its clear, come on and here you go, well done, frozen, frozen, frozen, thats it , all the work as a rector, portraits, who is this, tell me. Well, somewhere there are children, somewhere my friends, somewhere some of their crafts, here is sofya nikolaevna golovkina, the director under whom i studied at school, and we found this very beautiful photograph with her autograph in the archives schools chose this antique they put a frame that matches this photo when i began to lead. Only then did i appreciate her actions, her toughness, her softness, her humor, over the years i saw the difference, what happened with her at school and what happened after her, i know what is good, i clearly know what is bad, i know how much i dont want, thats how it is now in my home school, i dont want, because for me this is a guideline, a guideline for everything, a guideline for how to treat to the teacher. In general, for me soph nikolaina was just a dear person, because she took me to a Moscow School because i studied with her, because she saved my mothers life at one time, but when i became a leader, my attitude completely changed, i loved her even more, i appreciated her well, because i im shocked at all how much she did for society, for humanity and for. And i understood this very clearly, i never suspected that i would encounter such an indifferent attitude towards everything, to the building, to the way the children live, how, how they feed, to such monstrous theft, simply unprecedented, so. Now, when it was the tenth year of my rectorship, it was very funny that different students who graduated during these 10 years began to write to me, different, different, and one girl wrote very nicely, Nikolai Maksimovich, we say, we recently sat here and began to remember, how did you come, and he said, everyone began to tell something, well, how he remembers that day, because the children were also forced to write a paper against me, the children were intimidated. Then everyone told me this, they told me the names of these people, who threatened them and so on, she wrote, she says, the first thing he says, we all said at the same time, everyone who lived, especially at school, that oil appeared, that in the buffet, uh, the smell disappeared, this disgusting one, and it became possible to eat, he says, i said i didnt eat in general, i was halfstarved all the time, because it was impossible to eat this food, i was promoting the mafia in the canteen for 2 years. To be honest, because there was a gang working there, a real gang, and also a phrase from one of my students, brilliant, but he says nikolai maksimevich, you dont like fish, they cook the fish poorly , well, because i wont try the fish, i dont care, i dont understand whether its good or bad, it doesnt taste good to me anymore, it doesnt taste good to me anyway, i then called my friend, who eats fish, and said, you can eat it , i have to understand how they prepare it, in general , uh, this. Moment, then i, when i went to the boarding school, all the time, even after a year, there are 10 years, i always carry on some kind of dialogue with this woman who was once there, i always want to say, youre not ashamed, but you re a woman, how is it possible, she could to do everything, she didnt do anything, she did nt care how the children lived, the fact that they were eight of them in a room like this, she didnt care, thats it. I just try every time to make sure that the funds allocated by the state reach the consumer, thats all, it s difficult, you have to constantly swear, well , for someone youre always bad, so what can you do, well, youre not you steal. Vladimir putin, he was then vicemayor, put a lot of effort into getting this building. And now he got it, this is very in fact, yes, in st. Petersburg we have people from moscow living well, but its not so simple, it all happened in the jewish petersburg intellectual atmosphere, of which the st. Petersburg Ballet School is a part. I am sure that st. Petersburg was very necessary in my life, because this is a coronation, in fact, all russian emperors, they had to be crowned in moscow in order to sit on the throne in. In st. Petersburg, in ballet, without being crowned in st. Petersburg , you cant sit on a throne in moscow, in art too, a person who has gone through cultural petersburg does not only the theatrical one, yes, i won the theatrical one very early, namely the governing petersburg, when all the leaders of the city, museums, and large theaters speak to you on equal terms. When they consider you an equal, its completely different. What event made you leave st. Petersburg for moscow in the middle of the week . Taffy, im one of. One of the presenters, im a nominee, in my life there were so many international, state, interstate awards that i could dream of something, but i never dreamed, really, i never dreamed of such an award, i i want to express my deep gratitude to everyone who voted for me, dear academicians , thank you, in many ways these are advances, this is. Salaski, the wind or the beach, thats how it was, after the premiere of pdt, you threw out such a phrase, oh, this again nutcracker, how tired of all this, im tired. If anyone guessed how much i dislike them. Why are you tired, why are you bored . Do you want to put Something Else or what . Yes, i dont want to put it, i just understand that it is necessary, people confuse a person who knows how to live according to a schedule with whether he wants to live according to schedule, i dont ever want to, another thing is that well, thats how i was taught, you have to do it, and then play, i always want to play, when the vacation starts, he tells me, well, youll get bored, i dont. I never get bored , its just that my vacation is expiring, and i have to go to work, i would just sit there, so you say that i want, if i had the means, i would board a ship and never get off it, i would travel nonstop, but why, you always say that you cant live without ballet, i can, i can, im just used to working, i can, i can, but i know how to work. Well, why not, well, as if i know one thing, that well, if i went, ill do well, but if i didnt go, i wont, ive always worked, you know, but in retirement, well, then, when at 33 year, i went into the subway, took out a pension card and said, i was so proud, yes, they looked at me, looked at the photo, they said, yes, im a pensioner, i dont know, it amuses me very much, it seems to me that im even in. Im whispering, she found out from her what was the matter, and i had already served for 3 years, and i was one of the most main artists, i constantly danced the most important roles, but they didnt increase my salary at all, my salary was very meager, and lady ivanovna told me, he says, why dont they raise me, but they generally ignore me all the time, she says, how i thought that he had been Prime Minister for a long time, because he was the only one dancing, the next day marinevna said galka, what are you doing, lets go and make a ring. soloist and galina sergievna said yes, good, and i was sitting next to him and i thought, well, grandma is joking, she loved to joke, i i didnt attach any importance to this, she waited for her, they then went to the general. Even thoughts, because i spent all my money on three things first, i bought books all the time, second, i bought music cds all the time, i brought them from all over the world, and i bought ballet clothes all the time, because i was always well as if at work, why would i need it, then, when i began to analyze and think what an idiot i am, everyone already has an apartment, someone has invested in a dacha, then i think, but this game saved me a lot, i played around, ive been playing for too long, because im naive, lets play , it turns out, not for real, no, i grew up in the theater, everything there is not real, there are not real passions , not real flowers, not real glasses, not real wine, although on stage sometimes they pour real juice instead of wine, well, death is real, unfortunately, but i played it so many times, i died so many times, hmm, but i was sure that i would wake up, no, i dont know, i dont i want to know this day, because of this i dont like birthdays, i want to hope that it will be somewhere after 90, like one of your teachers, mentor, well, yes, marina timofeevna, i say, yes, i wont live, yes, i infected you, and she lived for 103 years, so i dont have a chance, but there were such cases when they didnt forget to congratulate you on the new year or on your birthday . No, never, no, everyone always congratulates me on two holidays, and but you understand, one more thing, i dont like it so much when people congratulate me, when i honestly dont really remember who congratulated me, who didnt congratulate me, then when they come someones birthday, then i have to congratulate me, but this one completely forgot about me, there and so on, then i only understand that someone else has broken away from my life, and that you congratulate these people or are you not being vindictive . I cant say that im vindictive or not, i just chose this coca chanel formula for myself a long time ago, i really like it, he says, i dont care what you think about me, i dont think about you at all, raise your leg, like that , dont pinch, but upset, dont rush, dont rush, please, dont rush, dont rush, dont rush. I then went to auditorium, guys, you understand, everyone, lets go, lena, here they need to put signs on this line, they knock everything down, lets move, together. Stop, pashenka, you are all late , pasha, until the cadence has begun, you cannot move, you gave her your hand, she answered, only with the cadence you leave, get ready, pasha, and once, once, dont rush, now its just a hand. They said that if i told him pavel, then this was the height of my irritation. Your shinkunchik, whom you have been showing for years in a row. In the korebyov palace, this is such a competitor, some other one, no , i, right now, have no desire to bet big, i adore kaus, she said one brilliant phrase that i wrote down when i was still in school, i lived by this all my life, when they asked her , isnt she afraid of competitors, she said, when someone in the world sings my repertoire, as i sing it, then i will get excited, i know for sure that so that i. You see, or the winner of nations, i always have victory, forward, thats what matters. Hello, evening news on channel one, andrey ukharev with you. 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