Mikhail Baryshnikov spoke in support of Kirill Serebrennikov

Ballet dancer, actor and choreographer Mikhail Baryshnikov wrote a letter to Kirill Serebrennikov, in which he supported the director. the letter on his Facebook page . published The writer Grigory Chkhartishvili (Boris Akunin)

“I thought that, having lived for a long time in the free world, it is easy to forget about the horror of ugliness and injustice that existed, exists and, I am afraid, will exist in Russia for a long time to come. Hold on, dear Cyril. Of course, you know that officials, investigators, prosecutors and their superiors are deeply, firmly and incorrigibly mediocre. Their only talent is the talent of the executioner, which is expressed against the background of unlimited power and individual manic obscurantism, ”wrote Baryshnikov.

According to him, "publishing over people does not prevent officials from sleeping."

Recall that director Kirill Serebrennikov is under house arrest. He is accused of embezzlement of budget funds in the amount of 68 million rubles. In this case, in addition to Serebrennikov, there are former employees of the Seventh Studio founded by him, ex-director Yuri Itin and ex-accountant Nina Maslyaeva.

to the Investigative Committee for questioning were summoned At the end of September , all the actors of the Gogol Center . The investigators were interested in the details of the participation of actors in performances based on the Platforma project, in particular in the production of A Summer Daughter's Dream, as well as the conditions and performance of the contracts they concluded.