About the book: 2016 / The life of S. M. Khromchenko, born at the beginning of the last century, and died at the beginning of the present century, is the story of how a young the provincial, imbued with the gift sent down to him from above, faithfully served him until the last years of his long life. To no less an extent, this is the life story of his colleagues in art, primarily at the Bolshoi Theater.