Bolshoi Ballet stars Vladimir Vasiliev and Ekaterina Maximova dance this 1982 performance of "Anyuta," the story of a small-town woman who purposely marries above her social status only to learn that popularity comes with a price. Maximova performs the role of Anyuta; Vasiliev plays Anyuta's drunk father.

Among the greenery of the parks of St. Petersburg, the white dress of a beautiful stranger flashes. Together with the prototype of the poet, and other characters - visitors to the restaurant - we wander around the city, go to restaurants, to the train station, to a reception in a rich and noble house. And everywhere we meet her. A stranger.

In "Dead Souls" Gogol posed the most pressing and painful questions of modern life. The very title of the poem had enormous revealing power; it carried, according to Herzen, “something terrifying”, “he could not name it otherwise; not the revisionists - dead souls, but all these Nozdryovs. Manilovs and all those like them are dead souls, and we meet them at every step..."

In the main character's diary, he describes his life, his work, and the people around him. He goes on to write about his feelings for a woman, and soon after that he begins to show signs of insanity - he talks to her doggie Meji, he gets hold of letters that Meji wrote to another doggie. After a few days, he's already completely disconnected from reality...