The first and second chapters of "Eugene Onegin" performed by Sergei Yursky.

A television play based on the life and death of Russian poet and Decembrist Wilhelm "Kyukhlya" Küchelbecker.

The teleplay was based on V. Mayakovsky’s poems “You!”, “Listen!”, “Conversation with Comrade Lenin” and other works of the poet.

Set in a fictional town in northern Russia, where highly classified research in magic occurs, the novel is a satire of Soviet scientific research institutes, complete with an inept administration, a dishonest, show-horse professor, and numerous equipment failures. It offers an idealistic view of the scientific work ethic, as reflected in the title which suggests that the scientists' weekends are n...