The mono-performance by People's Artist of Russia Nikolai Marton is based on the dramatic and poetic works of Alexander Pushkin and includes a musical divertissement. The performance also features Liubov Shtark (vocals), Igor Mamai (piano), Maxim Yakovlev/Timur Akshentsev (percussion), Dmitry Sizov (double bass), Lesya Polevaya (violin).

It was with Pushkin's repertoire, with the role of Albert in The Miserly Knight in Leonid Sergeyevich Vivien's Little Tragedies that Nikolai Sergeevich Marton's biography at the Alexandrinsky Theatre began.

Today, the artist is among the pleiad of masters who define the face of the modern Russian, academic and national stage. During his years of service at the Alexandrinsky Theater he has created about 100 roles.

Nikolai Marton is a recognized master of the mono-performance genre. The cycle Monologues in the Tsar's Foyer, which brings together unique works by the coryphees of the Alexandrinsky Theatre company, owes its very birth to his play Monologues (premiere took place in September 2012, since December 2013 the performance was held under the title "Faces and Roles"). In 2019, the cycle included the play Vertinsky. Russian Pierrot.

The genre of the mono-performance is one of the most difficult, it requires from the artist a genuine gift, sincerity and skill, precision of form and depth of content. All the more so in the Tsar's Foyer, where the spectator and the artist coexist not only according to the laws of the chamber stage, but also in a single historical space.

The premiere of the performance Alexander Pushkin. Poems and Thoughts is timed to coincide with the anniversary of Nikolai Marton's creative activity - 60 years of service to the Alexandrinsky stage.

The premiere will take place on December 7, 2022