The performance was awarded a diploma of the XIV Festival of Mono-Spectacles "Monocle" for preserving the memory of the feat of Leningrad artists.

The mono-performance by honored artist of Russia Semyon Sytnik is based on documentary material. During the Siege of Leningrad Alexandrinsky Theater became a home that saved many lives. More than 200 people lived here. Among them were the employees of the theater, for various reasons did not leave for evacuation - 39 actors, stage and workshop workers. The blockade life of the theater was led by Nikolai Vladimirovich Levitsky, an artist, a former officer of the tsarist army, a man of impeccable honesty and sense of duty.

On the basis of his surviving records, documents from the archives of the Alexandrinsky Theatre and the Musical Comedy Theatre, memoirs of Nikolai Konstantinovich Cherkasov and his wife Nina Nikolayevna Cherkasova, Vera Arkadyevna Michurina-Samoylova, documentary evidence about the siege of Leningrad, the authors of the performance create a siege diary that could have been kept by Nikolai Vladimirovich Levitsky. This is a true story about the tragic time, about life in the theater, which became a dormitory and bomb shelter. And in the Actor's Foyer, where the performance is going on now, they lived during the siege days too.

During the siege years the performances of the Musical Comedy Theater were held on the Alexandrinsky stage. In memory of this, the performance includes a rehearsal scene of Imre Kalman's operetta "Silva".

The troupe of the Leningrad State Academic Drama Theater named after A. S. Pushkin (this was the name of the theater at the time) was in evacuation in Novosibirsk, worked on the stage of the theater "Red Torch". At the theater were organized front brigades under the leadership of Konstantin Vasilyevich Skorobogatov, Nikolai Konstantinovich Cherkasov, Front Branch under the leadership of Elena Petrovna Karyakina, artists Alexander Fyodorovich Borisov and Konstantin Ignatyevich Adashevsky performed with the program "Fire on the enemy", Alexandrinsky gave performances in hospitals and traveled with concert programs in the active army. The troupe returned to Leningrad in the summer of 1944 and in the fall resumed performances on the home stage.

 Premiere - December 23, 2023