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In a fable ' Musicians ' I.A.Krylov has derided hobby of some noblemen for the choruses consisting of bad singers. The neighbour has called the neighbour ' otkushat ' and has decided to brag to it the choristers: '... Good fellows Have started singing: inharmoniously, and at whom that forces became. In ears at the visitor has cracked, and the head has begun to spin. ' Pardon you me, - he has told with an astonishment, - than to admire here? Your chorus. The nonsense bawls!. '

Not all safely was in V.V. serf troupe. Tolstoy in Tsarskoe Selo. At its theatre executed operas ' Klorida and Milon ', ' the Miller, the sorcerer, the deceiver and the matchmaker ', ' the Seville barber '. At performances there were lyceum students and among them Pushkin. The youth was lost in contemplation on ' the first mistress ' troupes Natalia. Pushkin wrote:

You captured conduct the spectator,

When without a step you sing,

Motionlessly facing to us,

You Sing - and it is frequent not v-popad...

Alas, another have catcalled!

Business beauty Is great!

About, Hloja, wise have lain;

Not all on light vanity.