The artistic director of the Theater of Nations was surprised by the media interest in the fee of Ksenia Sobchak

On the afternoon of March 18, a number of Russian media have distributed information about the fee of TV presenter Ksenia Sobchak for participating in the play "Marriage" based on the play by Gogol on the stage of the Theater of Nations. According to the terms of the contract, for seven months, Sobchak will receive approximately 310 thousand rubles. Some publications called this amount quite high, which caused surprise among the artistic director of the theater Yevgeny Mironov.

According to published data on the public procurement website, in December 2014, a contract was concluded between Sobchak and the theater leadership in the amount of 51.7 thousand rubles for the role of the roles of Swach Fekla Ivanovna. In February 2015, another contract for 310.4 thousand rubles for the performance of the same role.

The first contract, apparently, is a reward for rehearsal. In February, the final contracts concluded, the Izvestia newspaper reports. The first contract was not fulfilled completely. In fact, only 32.2 thousand rubles were paid to the TV presenter. The execution of the contract was terminated on this. Reason: The occurrence of unforeseen circumstances that have entailed a change in the number of rehearsals of the performance, is noted on the public procurement website.

The media noted that the fee of Sobchak, as a beginner actress, surpassed the fees of professional artists involved in the play. The monetary reward of the film Drada star Leviathan , nominated for Oscar, Anna Ukolova amounted to 312 thousand rubles, Oleg Komarov - 195 thousand rubles, Anna Galinova - 270 thousand rubles. Note that the theater of nations is subordinate to the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation and is funded from the budget.

The premiere of the play took place on March 4. In the poster, the theater website reports that in March two performances "Marriage" (March 4 and 14) took place, three were planned for April. In May, they will not play the play, then the poster has not yet turned up, but there will be no performances in the summer, Philippe Grigoryan told Izvestia. He also explained that the Sobchak theater decided "as an experiment" to attract Sobchak.

Such a close attention of some media to the Minorar Sobchak was surprised by the art leader of the theater Evgeny Mironov. "I am associated with such an interest with the personality of Ksenia Sobchak herself," Mironov said. According to him, Sobchak remarkably coped with the role of matchmaker. "The plans of the Nations The Theater of the Social Project" Touching ", where professional performers will perform, along with blindly delicate participants.