In 1904 he was invited to the Komissarzhevskaya Theatre in Saint Petersburg where he made himself a name in plays by Maxim Gorky, in particular, Summerfolk (as Dvoyetochiye, 1904) and Children of the Sun (Chepurnoy, 1905). [2 ]
Teachers and scientists do not trust the new government. But the elderly professor Dmitry Illarionovich Polezhaev is able to understand the events that occur in Russia.