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Merchant Vishnjakov has described a festival of 40-50th in Moscow. Simple people, and among them serf actors were the main character here. The crowd brought down... Played tens hoarse street organs. Roundabouts, horsies span. In buffooneries pantomimes were played, showed giants or women-monsters, menageries, conjurers worked. On balconies of buffooneries left to make laugh the people clowns, harlequins and kolombiny in the easy suits which few were in harmony with severe February and March weather. Many these actors caught a cold and died of a pneumonia! The simple people stood a wall, expecting a show, buffooneries have been overflowed thanks to the cheap prices. Performance plots were ordinary patriotically-military character: ' Fight of Russian with Kabardians ', ' the Capture of a fortress of Ochakov ', etc. By all means with battles, firing, fortress explosion. Character of festivals, repertoire of products which on them were executed, differed from official holidays and amusements. They reflected national tastes, its aesthetic attitude.