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In ' Magazine drama ' it is told about one similar theatre: ' - Where scenery? - Have asked the owner when on a scene have lifted a curtain and spectators have seen group of country boys from which everyone held in hands on one dense and curly birch. - my theatre still is very new, and house Gonzaga has not kept up svoeju rabotoju to mine imjaninam, - the answer has followed. When the actor dressed up in the wolf blanket izobrazhav a bear, having begun to roar, has gone on a scene on the hunters, the enormous Danish dog sitting near to the owner, with a loud roar and bystrotoju has rushed on ' a bear ' and the beginnings it to gnaw. The horror has captured actors, ' wood ' got from hands of boys, at theatre the general confusion has begun, actors have run with a cry and sobbing; spectators choked with laughter. One only the firm owner has kept indifference; it has rather easy dragged a furious dog from its victim and has told: - Continue, fools! A dog we will hang up, and meanwhile we will look through, than will come to an end! '

We spoke nothing about actors-children. Domestic boys and girls dressed in the Chinese, Arabian, Circassian, Kalmyk suits, and they served on balls and behind a table. There was no considerable theatre in Petersburg where children were involved in performances. Actress M.I.Velizary recollected stories of the grandmother - the serf actress And. P.Novitskoj-Kapustinoj as that, with naked legs, in an easy short skirt with wings behind shoulders, before the certificate beginning lifted upwards to grid-irons on a wire which has been attached to a special sort to a belt. Some the rings located along a back through which the wire was passed, protected wings from breakage. Naked ' the cupid ', shivering from a cold, hung in ' the sky ' to the exit. During the necessary moment pulled a wire and lowered ' a cupid ' downwards. It was called ' as flight '. The child danced, hardly constraining tears... In an interval it lowered downwards and wrapped up the freezed body in a short fur coat. In the following certificate ' the cupid ' again went down from the sky, smiled and danced. Later at And. P.Novitskoj-Kapustinoj has developed from it a paralysis of feet.

The Actress has told about the incident which has happened on a provincial scene, however similar cases took place and at capital theatres.