Opera "Semyon Kotko" at the Bolshoi Theatre of the USSR

USSR. Moscow. April 3, 1970. People's Artist of the RSFSR Artur Arturovich Eisen as Tkachenko (foreground), Honored Artist of the RSFSR Vladimir Nikolaevich Petrov as Semyon Kotko and actress Nelly Aleksandrovna Lebedeva as Sophia (from right to left in the background) in a scene from Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev's opera "Semyon Kotko" based on Valentin Petrovich Kataev's story "I, the Son of the Working People..." directed by People's Artist of the USSR Boris Aleksandrovich Pokrovsky at the State Academic Bolshoi Theater of the USSR. Alexander Konkov/TASS