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At many landowners serf servants simultaneously ispol njali duties of actors and musicians. Their majority as at Durasova, have not been released from country works. Prince P.A.Kropotkin recollected that in a serf orchestra of his father almost everyone domestic, besides the craft, consisted still a bass or a clarnet in an orchestra.

Adjuster Makar, it the assistant to the butler, played a flute, tailor Andrey - on a French horn. A duty of the confectioner was to beat in the beginning in a drum, but he so was zealous, that deafened all. Then to it have bought an enormous pipe in hope, that, perhaps, lungs he is able not make such noise, as hands. But when also this hope was not justified, it have handed over in soldiers. As to ' speckled Tihona ', that, besides uncountable duties in the house in a role of the lamp-lighter, a floor polisher or the exit footman, he still played an orchestra: day on a trombone, another - on a contrabass, and even as the second violin. Serfs Durasova were trained by the well-known actors Dmitrevsky and Founders. At Durasova there was a special chorus pesennikov with accompaniment of small horns and a clarnet and one of the best in Moscow of orchestras.

At P.Saltykova's column I. the serf troupe played situated near Moscow Marfine. Here there was the small wooden theatre constructed in a garden; except it, there was in two versts from the house a theatre on open air, on a glade among a grove named Darinoj.

At theatre Saltykova put operas ' Two hunters ', ' the Miller, the sorcerer, the deceiver and the matchmaker ', etc.

For Saltykova N.M.'s Karamazin theatre has written the scenario of a rural holiday ' Only for Marfina '. Among the fans playing together with serf actors Saltykova, there was an uncle of Ampere-second. Pushkin Vasily Lvovich Pushkin.