About the book: year / This is an unusual book in many ways. Its genre; content and method of presentation; purpose and history of appearance. About this - in the announcements preceding each of the three historical and modern plays-parables. For ordinary readers, I will inform you: the texts of plays in the world are written 30 (thirty!) times more than can be staged. Since some texts are liked by many people “as literature,” there are extensive libraries of plays in the world, and “Festivals of play readings” are held with a large number of listeners. So: don’t hesitate, read it, you’ll be hooked! Guaranteed by the “non-fiction” section, i.e. “without fiction”, is the scientific consultant of the book A.A. Chibilev - Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vice-President of the Russian Geographical SocietyFor theatergoers and specialists, a reference forecast: After the patronage announced by the Presidents of the Russian Federation and Ukraine over the preparation of the 200th anniversary of T.G. Shevchenko's play about Kobzar has already been accepted for production by the theater of the Ukrainian Center of Culture in Moscow, the Orsky Drama Theater (at the direction of the Governor) and is being studied by a number of theaters in Ukraine. The text of the play about Humboldt was written for production at the theater of the mountains. Vienna during the Presentation of Kazakhstan as the OSCE Chairmanship in January 2010. In development of the words of V.V. Putin 01.6.12 in Berlin: “A significant event in bilateral relations will be the Year of Russia in Germany and the Year of Germany in the Russian Federation under the patronage of the heads of state,” we should expect interest in the play from theaters “following the Humboldt route.” The idea for the script for the film “Referendum in the Taiga”, was approved by the Arts Council of the Odessa Film Studio in 1992. on the eve of the bankruptcy of the studio. This idea was later approved by S. Govorukhin - personally, and N. Mikhalkov - in a letter. This text was published in the magazine “Synopsis” No. 5, 2005. About the play “Where do you live?!” The chief director of the Orenburg Theater of Musical Comedy (native from Odessa), Honored Artist of the Russian Federation V.V. Dobrovolsky, said this: “I dreamed of staging something like this here, because... I think the history of Orenburg is richer than the history of Odessa!»