Smekhachi Meierkhol'da - Khort Aleksandr Nikolaevich

The main creative passions of the author of this book Alexander Hort mainly extend in the sphere of satire and humor. Therefore, his interest in the work of the masters of the 'fun shop' is not surprising. These include three great comedians - Erast Garin, Igor Ilyinsky and Sergei Martinson. They can be considered the same age as the century, which passed together with their country all stages of Soviet history: revolution, nap, industrialization, tragic 1930s, Great Patriotic, five-year-olds ... Gone are not bystanders, but full-fledged, we can say, active participants. They met while working together in the most revolutionary theater of the 1920s - the State Theatre named after the Sun. Meyerhold. Later they shined in the cinema, on the stage. With their performance, these actors lifted the mood of countless spectators. However, in everyday life fate did not always smile at them. The reasons - objective and subjective - and tried to understand the author.