Charles de Gaulle airport. Delayed flight - unaccompanied handbag on board. 5 hours till 'Nutcracker' opens at Mariinsky theatre. Anti-terrorists squad detonates handbag. 3 hours till 'Nutcracker'. Landing at 19:10. 19:45 - backstage. First ring... "Umm... - said Chemiakin - you're the limit..."

On the same day, Lena run a 10 kilometers-long marathon to signify a solidarity with Anton

In the early 1990's, we often told people in our interviews that concept of DEREVO was concieved from the film "Holy Mountain" by Alejandro Jodorowsky. A few years later a meeting was held with Alejandro.

He lives in Paris. There are cats and a huge collection of books. He films, writes books and acts for theatre, as well as publishing comics. He is considered one of the greatest authorities on Tarot. And now he is happy: "The world will be changed. Finally, the world will be changed", said he.

Whilst performing "SUICIDE" during these hard days we felt some medieval fever, something like the beginning of a plague. The glowing eyes of the audience and the surprisingly large number of questions after the show... It was amazing to understand that most of the scenes meant something to the people quite different to what they may have meant a month ago.

People want to talk and talk again... Maybe they finally want to be together?..

That happy consumption of the apple-cum-floor knitted the whole audience and performers together. And the applause sounded like clapping of hundreds of bird's wings.