Preparation of scenery for the play "War and Peace" at the Bolshoi Theater, is interviewed by theater director Boris Pokrovsky and conductor Alexander Melik-Pashayev; artists Galina Vishnevskaya, and E. Kibkalo grimiruyutsya before the show. M. Plisetskaya during rehearsal. N. Timofeeva grimiruetsya in the dressing room before the start of the ballet "Laurencia".