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Have been everywhere widespread wedding igrishcha during which time umykali - abducted the bride. (The echo of it igrishcha has remained and until now in horovodnoj to game ' And we sowed millet '. In it there are words ' And it is necessary to us the girl ', ' And we take the maiden '. At these exclamations the extreme guy took the extreme girl and drew it on the party.)

Already in the end of the first - the beginning of the second millenium d.C. in mass ritual and ceremonial festivals the most skilful executors, differing with talent improvizatsionnogo executions dancing and pesennyh elements, game were allocated; dialogue has arisen. In igrishchah entertainment lines as a whole have amplified.

The Separate executors who have made acting by the trade, were called as buffoons in Russia. In 1068 about them mention annals. Buffoons executed drama sketches, heroic songs, played musical instruments, told fairy tales, showed the trained animals, acted as acrobats. Their art demanded the big ability, it was displayed in a proverb: ' Vsjak will dance, yes not as the buffoon '.

In bylinas art of buffoons attributed to some athletes. In one of bylinas prince Vladimir Svjatoslavovich speaks Dobryne Nikitichu:

It is Ah small skomoroshina!

For your game for great,

For joys for yours for nezhnyja

Without merushki drink wine is green.