In the street is March. The presentiment of spring, it is windy and cool in Semipalatinsk. I am invited in a museum named after F.M. Dostoevsky on joint with Hesed evening devoted to memory of Faina Ranevskaya. The similar measures of the Jewish community Hesed "Polina" and Dostoevsky's museum have already become kind tradition. The hall is filled with the people of different age. There came the schoolboys, students, studying at college, friends of a museum and hoary with age clients of Hesed. There are no vacant places.

The evening covers Semipalatinsk television channel TV - 6, MASS-MEDIA of city. On a stage by the separate strokes, was unobtrusively reproduced life of a beginning of the last century.

Ancient gramophone ancient little table covered with a cloth of hand work, mirror in rounded frame, bronze desktop kerosene lamp, silver candlesticks, grand piano, figurines, notes, fan. A sign ancient doll. Arlekino. At the centre of a stage is the large and beautiful portrait of young Faina Ranevskaya. There are flowers in a vase. Music sounds.

The action begins bewitching and at 1.5 hours, having forgotten about everything, we, spectators are carried away in the world of dreams, poetry, high art and sad destiny of the great, talented actress. Conducting, managing of funds of Dostoevsky's museum, Natalie Barbarat, tells about a small country town Taganrog, in which, invisible string, were bound of destiny Feodor Dostoevsky, as his wife Isaeva M.D., Chekhov A.P. and itself Faina Feldman there was born which has later taken to herself a scenic pseudonym from the play of Chekhov A.P. - Ranevskaya.

Their house and garden, and poplar under a window still kept. And old Choral Synagogue, head of which and founder of a shelter for elderly Jews, was Faina's father - Girsh Feldman. From the mother Faina has inherited passionate love to music and rare musicality. In the house music of Bach, Motsart, Shuman, Shopen sounded. Both were still remembered and were grown fond to Faina evenings, when, the mum sang the Jewish songs.

The script of commemoration meeting of F. Ranevskaya is constructed so, that all time sounds music, classical, national Jewish and on this background, in performance of the drama actors from Semipalatinsk theater named after Dostoevsky we hear verses of Boris Pasternak, Marina Tzvetayeva, Anna Akhmatova, Maksimilian Voloshin. Ranevskaya was connected to them by years of friendship and heart attachment.

The stories about creative life of the great actress were accompanied by demonstration of fragments from films, in which during different years of life played Faina Ranevskaya. These are "Wedding", "Storm", "Dream", "Man in a case", "Drama", "Alexandr Parkhomenko", "Dumpling", "Foundling", "Spring", "Cinderella", and also screen tests for film "Ivan Grozny". The memoirs of Faina Ranevskaya and author of the book "Fragments of life" A. Sheglov are interesting. The brilliant works at theatre in all times of her creative biography were recollected, especially performances of last years: "This strange Mrs. Sevidge" and the completely tremendous performance "And further is silence "

As the will to all of us has remained her love for life, for the gifted people, with which to her the happiness dropped out to be friends or to touch on life and which have made out her remarkable talent.

Her life was long …
With gleams of happiness …
With years of despondency …
With decades of melancholy and loneliness …

The memory of the great actress and versatile talent touched this evening and our hearts. "The Death is not present, and there is a love and the memory of heart" repeated Faina Ranevskaya.

Eugenia Karyakina