Laughter Meyerhold. Hort A.

The main creative addictions of the author of this book by Alexander Hort mostly extend in the field of satire and humor. Therefore, his interest in the work of the masters of the "fun workshop" is not surprising. These are the three great comedians - Erast Garin, Igor Ilyinsky and Sergey Martinson. They can be considered the peers of the century, who have passed all the stages of Soviet history with their country: revolution, NEP, industrialization, the tragic 1930s, the Great Patriotic War, five-year planes... They went not by third-party observers, but by full-fledged, active participants. They met, working together at the most revolutionary theater of the 1920s - the State Theater named after the Armed Forces. Meyerhold. They later shone in the cinema, on the stage. With their game, these actors raised the mood of countless spectators. However, in everyday life, fate did not always smile at them. The reasons - objective and subjective - and the author tried to figure out.