Theater.doc showed a play based on Yuzu Aleshkovsky Yuz Aleshkovsky’s story “Nikolai Nikolaevich” fell into my hands somewhere in the late 70s, as usual, in the form of a blind typescript on gray, translucent paper. The first page, which served as the cover, was lost, so that, without recognizing either the author’s name or the title of the story, you immediately saw the first phrase, as if you were wedging in the middle of a conversation: “Listen.