Everyone is waiting for you

A no-good second-rate actor receives a fairy-tale offer, a "dream role". Now he is a count in 1830:
beautiful women, cavalry guards, tailcoats and white dresses, mazurkas, duels, the first ball of Natasha Rostova, Pushkin, all of that.

It is much cozier... here than in the murky 2022:
wife, son, worries, debts – somewhere far away…

…But just spending a few days in the TV Center is enough to feel a strange stillness, lifelessness. The very air of Ostankino is empty, like distilled water. It cannot be inhaled…

What shall we call this genre sandwich?
Costume melodrama, also a family saga, plus…
an existential thriller.

SHALL WE CONTINUE AFTER THE ADVERTISEMENT?


ANTON PONIZOVSKY – author of the novels "Transforming into Hearing" and "Prince Incognito", finalist of the "Big Book" prize.