The gains and losses of Russian governors in 2016 Vlast summed up the results of another declaration campaign of the heads of Russian regions. The study showed that the governors managed to overcome the financial crisis and increased their incomes. Evgeny Fedunenko For articles on previous reports, see Vlast #23 of June 15, 2009, #20 of May 24, 2010, #20 of May 23, 2011, #21 of June 3, 2013, #22 of June 9, 2014, #23 of 15 June 2015 and N23 of June 13, 2016. The highest paid The total income of all governors in the past year compared with the previous year increased by almost 22% and amounted to 756.8 million rubles. The record of 2011, when this amount was about 4 billion rubles, stood. Since the last declaration campaign, 12 heads of regions have left their posts, so there are many newcomers in the current ranking. The highest paid governor for the first time was the head of the Moscow region Andrei Vorobyov, who earned 97.9 million rubles. This is 20 million rubles. more than the leader of last year's rating - the head of the Chelyabinsk region Boris Dubrovsky (77.9 million rubles). The income of the head of the Moscow region is growing every year: in 2014 he earned 9.3 million, and in 2015 - already 27.7 million rubles. At the end of 2016, Vorobyov also topped the rating of the richest governors - he increased his income by 70.2 million rubles. In second place in the ranking of the highest paid is the head of the Chelyabinsk region, Boris Dubrovsky, who is traditionally in the top 3. In 2016, the former CEO of the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works and one of the most expensive top managers in Russia earned 73.8 million rubles, which is 4.1 million rubles. less than a year earlier. Such a drop in income allowed him to be simultaneously included in the rating of the most impoverished governors. The third place in the list of the highest paid is occupied by the governor of the Smolensk region Alexei Ostrovsky, who returned to the top 10 after a year's absence. In 2016, Ostrovsky earned 68.5 million rubles, which also put him in second place in the ranking of the richest. At the same time, in 2015, Ostrovsky ranked sixth from the end in terms of income from 1.9 million rubles. He explained the growth of his income by the sale of a land plot of 2,495 sq. m and a residential building with an area of ​​740 sq. m, which in total brought 65.5 million rubles. Among the other old-timers of the top 10, one can distinguish the governor of the Sakhalin Region Oleg Kozhemyako with an income of 27.2 million rubles, Dmitry Kobylkin (YaNAO) - 20 million rubles, Sergey Zhvachkin (Tomsk Region) - 13 million rubles, Vyacheslav Shport (Khabarovsk region) - 12.8 million rubles. The newcomers to the rating were the head of North Ossetia Vyacheslav Bitarov, who earned 31.6 million rubles, as well as the governor of the Lipetsk region Oleg Korolev with 12.8 million rubles. Korolev indicated in the declaration that he received 10.2 million rubles. from securities transferred to trust management for 2015 and 2016. Of the new governors, Andrey Nikitin, acting head of the Novgorod region, got into the rating (before his appointment, he headed the ASI), his income for 2016 amounted to 44.7 million rubles. The Acting Head of Karelia, Artur Parfenchikov, indicated 4.2 million rubles as income received from renting an apartment. Due to the use of real estate, another acting governor of the Kaliningrad region, Anton Alikhanov, received income. "Other income" was indicated by the governors of the Vologda and Tver regions Oleg Kuvshinnikov and Igor Rudenya, as well as the head of Chuvashia Mikhail Ignatiev. The income from the sale of property was received by the head of the Trans-Baikal Territory, Natalya Zhdanova, and the governor of Chukotka, Roman Kopin, took compensation for unused vacation. Pension as another source of income was indicated only by the head of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug Natalya Komarova. The highest paid Annual income (million rubles) Andrey Vorobyov (Moscow Region) 97.9 Boris Dubrovsky (Chelyabinsk Region) 73.8 Alexey Ostrovsky (Smolensk Region) 68.5 Andrey Nikitin (Novgorod Region) 44.7 Vyacheslav Bitarov (North Ossetia) ) 31.6 Oleg Kozhemyako (Sakhalin Oblast) 27.2 Dmitry Kobylkin (YaNAO) 20 Sergey Zhvachkin (Tomsk Oblast) 13 Vyacheslav Shport (Khabarovsk Territory) 12.8 Oleg Korolev (Lipetsk Oblast) 12.8 million rubles)* Andrey Vorobyov (Moscow Region) 70.2 Alexey Ostrovsky (Smolensk Region) 66.6 Vyacheslav Bitarov (North Ossetia) 23.4 Oleg Korolev (Lipetsk Region) 8.5 Ramzan Kadyrov (Chechnya) 6.4 Viktor Zimin (Khakassia) 3.3 Vladimir Yakushev (Tyumen region) 2.9 Oleg Kozhemyako (Sakhalin region) 2.8 Alexander Nikitin (Tambov region) 2.1 Sergey Gaplikov (Komi Republic) 1.9 The most impoverished Decrease in annual income (million rubles .)* Valery Shantsev (Nizhny Novgorod region) 38.4 Igor Koshin (Nenets Autonomous Okrug) 21.1 Egor Borisov (Yakutia) 8.9 Sergey Morozov (Ulyanovsk region) 8.1 Boris Dubrovsky (Chelyabinsk region) 4.1 Vyacheslav Shport ( Khabarovsk Territory) 1.9 Vadim Potomsky (Oryol Region) 1.8 Igor Orlov (Arkhangelsk Region) 1.6 Alexander Levintal (Jewish Autonomous Region) 1.1 Alexander Karlin (Altai Territory) 1.0 *From among the governors whose declarations were published last year. The lowest paid A major change has occurred in the top 10 lowest paid governors. For the first time since 2011, the rating was headed not by the head of Karachay-Cherkessia, Rashid Temrezov, but by the governor of the Pskov region, Andrey Turchak. His income is 718 thousand rubles. became one of the lowest for all time of the publication of income declarations. Only the former head of Dagestan Magomedsalam Magomedov earned less, who in 2009 received about 150 thousand rubles. The second place in the ranking of governors with the lowest incomes was taken by the head of Kalmykia Alexei Orlov with 1.2 million rubles, Rashid Temrezov dropped to third place - 1.3 million rubles. The rating was replenished by two new governors with the prefix acting - the head of Adygea Murat Kumpilov and the head of the Kaliningrad region Anton Alikhanov - they earned 1.6 million rubles over the past year, respectively. and 2.6 million rubles. The newcomers to the rating were the head of the Krasnodar Territory, Veniamin Kondratyev (2 million rubles in earnings), as well as the head of Ingushetia, Yunus-bek Yevkurov (2.3 million rubles in income). The head of the Crimea, Sergei Aksyonov, and the governor of the Kostroma region, Sergei Sitnikov, fell out of the rating of the least paid - their income for the past year amounted to 2.6 million rubles. and 3.5 million rubles. respectively. The lowest paid Annual income (million rubles) Andrey Turchak (Pskov region) 0.7 Alexey Orlov (Kalmykia) 1.2 Rashid Temrezov (Karachay-Cherkessia) 1.3 Murat Kumpilov (Adygea) 1.60 Pavel Konkov (Ivanovo region) 1.8 Yuri Kokov (Kabardino-Balkaria) 2 Veniamin Kondratiev (Krasnodar Territory) 2 Yunus-bek Yevkurov (Ingushetia) 2.3 Alexander Zhilkin (Astrakhan Region) 2.6 Anton Alikhanov (Kaliningrad Region) 2.6 The richest spouses B ranking of the richest spouses for the second year in a row, there is a situation when the wives and husbands of the heads of regions earn more than themselves. The wife of the President of Tatarstan, Gulsina Minnikhanova, earned 2.35 billion rubles in 2016, becoming the second highest income among wives in the history of declaration campaigns of the heads of regions. The record holder of this rating remains the wife of the former mayor of Moscow, Yuri Luzhkov, Elena Baturina, who, following the results of 2009, declared an income of 30.94 billion rubles. (3.9 thousand times more than the husband's earnings). Olga Bogomaz, wife of the Governor of the Bryansk region, fell to second place with an income of 864.1 million rubles. Irina Drozdenko closes the top three: last year, the wife of the governor of the Leningrad Region, Alexander Drozdenko, earned over 103 million rubles. Of the old-timers of the rating, only Kira Turchak, the wife of the lowest paid governor, head of the Pskov region Andrei Turchak, remained in the top 10. Last year, she received an income of 37.5 million rubles. The top ten is closed by Lilia Vasilyeva: the wife of the Acting Governor of the Kirov Region, Igor Vasilyev, earned 17.36 million rubles. The richest spouses Annual income of the spouse (million rubles) Gulsina Minnikhanova (wife of the head of Tatarstan 2350.90 Rustam Minnikhanov) Olga Bogomaz (wife of the governor of the Bryansk 864.1 region Alexander Bogomaz) Irina Drozdenko (wife of the governor 103.1 of the Leningrad region Alexander Drozdenko) Natalia Levchenko (wife of the governor of the Irkutsk 79.8 region Sergey Levchenko) Olga Golubeva (wife of the governor of the Rostov 63.7 region Vasily Golubev) Kira Turchak (wife of the governor of the Pskov 37.5 region Andrey Turchak) Elena Aksenova (wife of the head of the Crimea Sergey 32.8 Aksenov) Valentina Bocharova (wife of Governor 23.5 of the Volgograd Region Andrey Bocharov) Elena Kopin (wife of Governor of the Chukotka 18.3 Region Roman Kopin) Lilia Vasilyeva (wife of Governor of Kirov 17.3 Region Igor Vasilyev) The largest landowners The rating of the largest landowners has been headed by the governor of Bryansk for the third year in a row Alexander Bogomaz region, the area of ​​his possessions has also not changed and is 189.2 thousand square meters. m. As in the past two years, in second place is the head of Chuvashia, Mikhail Ignatiev (58.2 thousand sq. m. of property), and the governor of the Sakhalin region, Oleg Kozhemyako, closes the top three with 45 thousand sq. m. m of land. Three people appeared in this rating at once, who became acting governor over the past year: the heads of the Novgorod, Ryazan and Kirov regions Andrei Nikitin, Nikolai Lyubimov and Igor Vasiliev. Their land holdings are respectively 28.4 thousand square meters. m, 4.9 thousand sq. m and 4.4 thousand square meters. m. For the first time, the governor of the Kaluga region, Anatoly Artamonov, also got into the rating with a land area of ​​16.1 thousand square meters. m. The largest landowners Total land area (sq. m)* Alexander Bogomaz (Bryansk region) 189,170 Mikhail Ignatiev (Chuvashia) 58,222 Oleg Kozhemyako (Sakhalin region) 45,000 Andrey Nikitin (Novgorod region) 28,443 Anatoly Artamonov (Kaluga region) region) 16,140 Igor Rudenya (Tver region) 10,000 Evgeny Savchenko (Belgorod region) 7064 Nikolay Lyubimov (Ryazan region) 4920 Vladimir Miklushevsky (Primorsky region) 4464 Igor Vasiliev (Kirov region) 4350 last year did not publish a declaration in the status of interim, this year he was in first place in the ranking of the most quartered - the area of ​​\u200b\u200bhis housing is 344 square meters. m. In second place - last year's leader, the head of the Krasnoyarsk Territory Viktor Tolokonsky with an apartment of 304.5 square meters. m. The third place, as in the previous ranking, is occupied by the Governor of the Volgograd region Andrey Bocharov: the area of ​​​​his apartment is 292.3 square meters. m. With an apartment of 258.4 sq. m entered the rating of the new head of the Perm region Maxim Reshetnikov. Another newcomer to the top 10 was the governor of the Tver region, Igor Rudenya - he declared an apartment with an area of ​​​​212.1 square meters. Most quartered Area of ​​the largest apartment (sq. m)* Alexey Dyumin (Tula region) 344 Victor Tolokonsky (Krasnoyarsk region) 304.5 Andrey Bocharov (Volgograd region) 292.3 Vladimir Ilyukhin (Kamchatsky region) 266.8 Maxim Reshetnikov ( Perm Territory) 258.4 Sergey Zhvachkin (Tomsk Region) 233.4 Veniamin Kondratiev (Krasnodar Territory) 226.2 Igor Rudenya (Tver Region) 212.1 Natalya Komarova (KhMAO) 186.2 Viktor Zimin (Khakassia) 184.7 Most homely For the third year in a row, the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, takes first place in terms of the area of ​​\u200b\u200bhis home: his house with an area of ​​​​2.3 thousand square meters. m is almost three times more than the house of the second in the ranking, the governor of the Tver region Igor Ruden (794.8 sq. m). The third place after a year's absence was taken by the head of the Nizhny Novgorod region Valery Shantsev - he owns a house with an area of ​​645.8 square meters. m. The Governor of the Smolensk region Alexei Ostrovsky earned on the sale of a house of 740 square meters. m, in exchange for buying a home of 420.9 sq. m, with which he also entered the top ten. The most affluent Area of ​​the largest house/cottage (sq. m)* Ramzan Kadyrov (Chechnya) 2344.3 Igor Rudenya (Tver region) 794.8 Valery Shantsev (Nizhny Novgorod region) 645.8 Vladimir Gorodetsky of Udmurtia Igor Vasiliev and Alexander Brechalov indicated ownership respectively three and two cars. Nevertheless, Aleksey Orlov remains the leader - last year the head of Kalmykia bought Infiniti and again single-handedly takes first place with five cars. Chelyabinsk governor Boris Dubrovsky changed his BMW to Mercedes. The head of the Stavropol Territory Vladimir Vladimirov became the owner of the Volga. Acting Governor of the Novgorod Region Andrey Nikitin declared two motorcycles. The largest car owners Cars (pcs.) Alexey Orlov (Kalmykia) 5 Alexey Gordeev (Voronezh region) 3 Igor Vasiliev (Kirov region) 3 Alexander Brechalov (Udmurtia) 2 Valery Shantsev (Nizhny Novgorod region) 2 Veniamin Kondratiev (Krasnodar region) 2 The closest to the people This year, according to the coefficient of proximity to the people traditionally calculated by Vlast (the percentage of the average income in the region to the income of the head of the region), Governor Andrei Turchak turned out to be the closest to the people with a coefficient of 35.82%. Roman Kopin, Alexey Orlov, Rashid Temrezov and Natalya Komarova also re-entered the rating. Acting Governor of Adygea Murat Kumpilov was in sixth place with a coefficient of 16.71%. In general, the governors have distanced themselves from the people - in the last rating, nine governors had an proximity coefficient above 20%, this year - only three. Aleksey Ostrovsky turned out to be the most distant from the people with a coefficient of 0.41%. Andrey Vorobyov, Valery Shantsev, Boris Dubrovsky, Sergey Zhvachkin and Oleg Kozhemyako are consistently included in the rating. Andrey Nikitin, Acting Governor of the Novgorod Region, immediately took fourth place with a coefficient of 0.71%. In general, those who are far from the people have become even further: if last year there were only two governors with a coefficient below one, then this year there are already five. Closest to the people Proximity ratio (%)* Andrey Turchak (Pskov region) 35.82 Natalya Komarova (KhMAO) 24.79 Alexei Orlov (Kalmykia) 20.91 Roman Kopin (Chukotka Autonomous Okrug) 19.09 Rashid Temrezov (Karachay-Cherkessia) ) 18.48 Murat Kumpilov (Adygea) 16.71 Veniamin Kondratiev (Krasnodar Territory) 15.71 Viktor Tolokonsky (Krasnoyarsk Territory) 15.22 Pavel Konkov (Ivanovo Region) 13.96 Vladimir Miklushevsky (Primorsky Territory) 13.54 The most distant Proximity ratio (%)* Aleksey Ostrovsky (Smolensk region) 0.41 Andrey Vorobyov (Moscow region) 0.49 Boris Dubrovsky (Chelyabinsk region) 0.49 Andrey Nikitin (Novgorod region) 0.71 Vyacheslav Bitarov (North Ossetia) 0.8 Ramzan Kadyrov (Chechnya) 2.31 Oleg Korolev (Lipetsk region) 2.31 Oleg Kozhemyako (Sakhalin region) 2.7 Valery Shantsev (Nizhny Novgorod region) 2.98 Sergey Zhvachkin (Tomsk region) 3.13 *Percentage the average income for the region to the income of the governor.

Limericks

A collection of limericks by Edward Lear with illustrations by the author, Plato invariably calls "Up Pockets." Somehow I tried to correct him, but Tosha immediately asked: “What are upside-downs?” I thought, reached for an etymological dictionary - and everything, time was lost, the child firmly learned the inaccurate, but very understandable name for him. Moreover, there are so many inverted, confused, wrong things in the pictures, so that Toshino's name turns out to be quite justified.

Of course, not all Lear's texts are understandable to young children. But we don't read everything. I choose something, something - the boys themselves, focusing on the illustrations that interest them. They really like to make each other laugh: “Wow, look, what a nose! .. What a leg! .. What is it with uncle?” We read Limericks in Sergey Task's retelling. He Russifies many geographical names, and, in my opinion, this greatly facilitates the reading of poetry - some names are familiar to children, and those that are unfamiliar are at least interpreted by them as names of the area, and not just a set of sounds.

Children are attentive listeners. They easily notice inconsistencies between the Russian text and the picture, created clearly for the English text. Lenya, already familiar with Latin letters and English, immediately spotted a snail in the picture and the inscription Snails on a bucket, although the translation was about cones:

A father from the city of Tver has twenty sons and a daughter.
So happy with the kids that he feeds them cones
Dad from the city of Tver.

Children especially like those illustrations and texts that deal with some fantastic parts of the body: too long noses, legs, arms, huge heads, etc. Among Tosha's favorites there is, for example, the following verse:

For a long time long-nosed Tom does not leave the house alone
Her nose is carried early in the morning by a maid
Through the streets, just like at home.

Platoshin's passion for fables, supported by reading Edward Lear, leads him to endlessly compose his own rhyming lines. He has intuitively grasped the structure of the text, but cannot deviate from the pattern. Usually his verse begins with the lines "Plato from the city of Ton ...", "Lenya from the city of Kakonya ...", "Mom from the city of Pama ...", "Dad from the city of Hat ...". Then he slips a little and starts to simply substitute sounds, not really thinking about the meaning. But sometimes, with Lenina's hints, some meaningful lines are obtained: “Plato from the city of Ton once went to the balcony. There he heard a ringing and fell off the balcony, Plato from the city of Ton ... ”This writing ends with the Homeric laughter of both boys and the repeated repetition of the invented text.

And today, Plato came up with a riddle that is clearly inspired by Lear's poems. We couldn't figure it out. “On two sticks - a barrel with a hole. There is a pipe on the barrel. The ball is on the pipe. There is a forest on the ball. It turned out to be a man. The hole meant the navel. Having learned the answer, the realist Lenya asked: where are the hands? “And the hands were hidden in the pockets!” Plato replied.

Poems in a circle

Another favorite English verse by Plato is about jumping John from the collection Poems and Songs of Mother Goose. “Little John jumped into a can, it’s dark in the can - he jumped out the window, the window is unwashed - he jumped into the trough, the trough is empty - he jumped into the cabbage, it’s disgusting in the cabbage - he jumped into the garden, it’s sad in the garden - he jumped into the plum , it’s creepy on the drain - he jumped on the booth, they burned the booth - he jumped into the coals, the coal is hot - he jumped on the nag, the nag fell - read it all over again! Both Lenya and Tosha, after several readings, memorized the text and recite in turn. Tosha loves to be the first: he starts to read, and the last stanza, "Read everything from the beginning ...", just screams into Lena's ear. In theory, after that Lenya should start reading again, but this does not always happen - Lenya may have his own classes. The terribly offended Plato immediately complains to me: “Well, I told him: read everything from the beginning! But he doesn't listen!" Mom has to “read everything from the beginning”, and it is necessary to finish with an appeal to Tosha: “Read everything from the beginning!” Tosha is happy to do it. This could go on for a very long time...

John also accompanies Plato while jumping, which the boy does many times a day and with great pleasure. He jumps from the sofa and onto the sofa, on the floor, through the rope, through the hoop - and says: “Little John jumped in ...” He probably considers himself to be such a John.

What do names look like?

Since after the “Poems of Mother Goose” the name John became almost native for Platosha, I read two poems by Eleanor Fargen to the children - “Girls' Names” and “Boys' Names”. Both of these texts are based on playing on the sound range of the name, on alliterations and associations. While reading, I tried very hard to emphasize these similarities with my voice: growl, ring, knock, rustle ...

What nice girls names!
Here is Sheila - a silk flap,
And Sylvia - forest foliage,
And Stella is a night star,
And Flora is a generous spring,
And Lola is a smooth wave
And Linda-Bell - a call at the door:
"Ding dong! - Who's there?.."
And just Mary.

What nice boys names!
Here's Barry - a cannon salute,
And Patrick is a sail in the open,
And Robert - the steady roar of the engine.
Tom - the sound of hooves from afar,
And Peter is a singing shepherdess,
And Charlie - a clean river ringing On the pebbles ...
And just John.

Lenya was very carried away by these verses. I invited him to play with his own name: what does the name Leonid look like? This occupation lasted for several days. In the most unexpected situations - on the street, in transport - he suddenly reported: "Mom, and also Leonid - as if the leaves were swaying." Or: “Lenya! Le! Le! That's how the balls bounce!" I did not always catch his associations, and the resemblance seemed to me strained, but I rejoiced with him.

Naturally, he did not forget about his younger brother. “Plato - this is how the droplets knock. Ton-ton-ton ... ”Plato himself really liked this version, and when Lenya suggested the following option (“pppp - so the car’s engine stalled”), Tosha flatly refused: “No, I’m a drop! I'm not a motor!"

It seems to me that understanding one's name plays some very important role in a child's life. I explained to the boys a long time ago what their names mean, told how my dad and I chose names and why we settled on these options. And I notice that these stories are very deep in their memory, and they often ask to talk about it again and again.

Anna Rapoport

The spring premiere of the stagecoach theater - the poetic clownery "Upside Down" - easily recruited new viewers into the army of Youth Theater fans.

A pedantic critic will object: “What kind of poetic clowning is this? When there is not a single word, not a single rhyme, not a single stanza in the performance. And for sure: there really is not a single word in the new brilliant production of the talented actress and director Ekaterina Zubareva. Such is the genre revolution not only on these Tuzovsky stages, but also on the Togliatti, and maybe Samara stage.

A pantomime performance, a clowning performance for young spectators - those previously unknown depths for Katya, which could turn a nice director's idea into a shallow titanic, if the authors and performers of the performance did not create a real poetic miracle. It is easy to verify this: it is impossible to retell poetry. The thinnest poetic substance will disappear from one awkward word "narrator".

with a star

Of course, you can retell the serious adult plot that the director entrusted to the four charming, touching, surprisingly subtle and very frivolous clowns. But from the plot to the performance - a cosmic distance, infused with love. And this space could be overcome only by taking off above a simple and understandable plot outline. Take off with the Star, who, together with the performer of this and several other masks, Ekaterina Zubareva, set a courageous height of penetrating feelings, without words touching both young and adult viewers.

The very case when the audience does not need to translate wordless jokes and little musical hooliganism. The case when five-year-old theater-goers easily caught the subtlest shades of mood and heart troubles of funny and touching clown Mom and Dad, wonderful kids - the Elder and the Younger.

Jewels for the viewer

The plastic masterpieces of Pyotr Zubarev and Iliana Khityaeva, the clownish watercolors of Dmitry Koshelev and Konstantin Fedoseyev, probably would not have happened without the music of Viktor Martynov and the stage designer Olga Zarubina. The laconic and practically non-objective scenographic solution happened not due to the poverty of the theatrical budget, but due to the richness of the director's and artistic imagination. Katya and her four came up with so many cute, witty, lyrical, soul-touching reprises that they could easily be enough for a couple of performances. But "Stagecoach" does not save on theatrical jewels, does not dilute the magic with water. And in the finale of the performance, it even gives the right to become the same as its actors, a magician to a simple spectator from the first row of the stalls. And this is another small but very bold directorial prank. Another test for your special viewer. The premiere test confirmed that Stagecoach has such an audience.

From Asissia

And yet, it seems to me that one temptation to the classics for a minute or two knocks down the invaluable organics of this pantomime born at the festival “Premier of one rehearsal”. The legacy of Poluninsky Asissy breaks into the anamnesis of the performance. It threatens to break the thin, wordless fabric of creation, the only word, probably gaily invented in Stagecoach, which the Pope once pronounces and which, of course, is not found in either large or small academic dictionaries of the Russian language. Silence, which in this performance is like gold, is frightened not only by this funny word, but even by non-random interjections.

Present

Of course, this present from Stagecoach cannot be wrapped up and carried away. But it's definitely worth giving it to yourself. To then watch "Top Pockets" more than once.

I believe that all the texts about this wonderful performance will begin with the story of his long journey to the audience. This story is indeed almost as captivating as the play itself. As in the play, it had enough sad moments, but in the end it all ended in a happy ending.

It was 2016, at the stagecoach theater - the 7th festival "Premier of one rehearsal", the winner of which, according to the results of the audience voting, was the sketch of the play "Peter the ordinary, or Younger brothers are not chosen", staged by Ekaterina Zubareva. "Peter the ordinary" was a touching story of a 9-year-old boy whose life changes with the appearance of a second child in the family. The performance's victory was absolutely well-deserved; it was not for nothing that both adults and children enthusiastically accepted it. According to the rules of the competition, the theater took "Peter" for revision, then to include it in the repertoire. When the work on the play was already coming to an end, Judy Bloom, the author of the book "Peter the Common Peter", received a ban on the theatrical adaptation of her work throughout Russia.

It would seem that the final credits should have gone in this place, but Ekaterina Zubareva did not give up so easily. Having grieved a little (in her own words), she created a completely new performance, in which only the situation of the appearance of a second child in the family remained from "Peter".

"Up pockets" staged in the genre of clowning. I do not want to say obvious things about how difficult this genre is for artists. I can only say that in Togliatti theaters you will not see anything like this anywhere else. Stagecoaches tried on clowning a few years ago, but then retreated. So, as they say, there would be no happiness, but Bloom's misfortune helped. And "Pockets" is an unconditional happiness for the audience.

"Up pockets" preserved the very soul of "Peter". This is still a touching, sad-funny, understandable story for everyone without further ado. More precisely, without words at all, except for funny interjections and a few phrases of fictitious gibberish.

In the poster, "Pockets" are among the children's repertoire, and rightly so, because "Pockets" are for children of all ages, from preschool to the elderly. Even hard-to-reach adults here return to their childhood, when mom was a princess, dad was a brave knight, a simple branch could become a sword at any moment and I wanted this nonsense so much - to grow up as soon as possible. And the children... they don't need to go back anywhere yet to be in the world with their pockets up, because he is always here, with his mother-princess, father-knight and different fantasies for every day.

Moms and dads need to watch "Pockets" also in order to remember that childhood is not only fun and carefree, but sometimes very lonely and scary. And that it is adults who most often should think about their behavior so as not to bewitch the child for a bitter feeling of loneliness.

Five actors are employed in "Pockets": Pyotr Zubarev as an older brother, Dmitry Koshelev as a younger one, Konstantin Fedoseev as a father, Iliana Khityaeva as a mother and Ekaterina Zubareva, who personally played several roles at once, from a fallen star to a dog booty up.