"The first ever State Jewish Theater spoke Yiddish. In the language of I.-L. Perets and Sholom Aleichem, in the language of the heroes of the ghetto uprisings and partisan forests. It was thanks to him, accessible to the bulk of the Jews of Russia, that the Jewish Theater enjoyed unprecedented popularity and love. For almost twenty years, my father Solomon Mikhoels headed this theater. He was the soul, the brain, the nerve of the Jewish culture of Russia in the complex, gloomy era of the Middle Ages of the twentieth century. I want to talk about Mikhoels the man, about Mikhoels, how he was at home and how few people knew him. However, life outside the theater - until a certain time - neither he nor, accordingly, we had. Therefore, even my very first memories are associated with the theater."