“Why do you need the Hermitage?”

For me and hundreds of thousands of Muscovites, the Hermitage Theater is a part of life.

This is Ilf, Kharms and Marquez, this is the memory of the magnificent Lyubov Polishchuk and the amazing Viktor Gvozditsky, this is a unique team led by the inimitable Mikhail Levitin, this is our holiday - a holiday of people who know how to appreciate bright form and precise words...

For those who are behindthe bureaucratic decision to forcibly renovate the theater, contrary to the opinion of the troupe, Levitin’s “Hermitage” is real estate in the center of Moscow, a place for “developing” the next budgets.

This property has already attracted the attention of a wide variety of structures many times - both nomenklatura and outright gangsters.

It should be noted that in our Fatherland this is easily combined...