The film screening of the modern production by Yegor Peregudov transports Pushkin's novel into the realm of Russian winter, where youthful feelings resonate without museum-like distance. Pushkin's novel on the stage of Mayakovka sounds like the story of people who are still very close to youth and are already facing choices, pride, awkwardness, first love, and first loss. Director Yegor Peregudov approaches the familiar plot without the heaviness of school: at the center are living characters, their movements, intonations, confusion, and the ability to perceive poetry as part of everyday breathing. An important feature of the production is the age of the performers. The young actors are almost the same age as the characters, so the screen particularly highlights the nerve, speed of reaction, sudden courage, and equally sudden vulnerability. The author's self-irony helps to relieve unnecessary solemnity: instead of immobile classics, a theater emerges where the text does not impose status but sounds like a speech about today's feelings. Where to go in Yekaterinburg is known by KudaGo.