Tom Stoppard is undoubtedly the most famous and popular of modern European playwrights. The recipient of numerous prestigious literary and drama awards, Stoppard received the British Order of Merit from Queen Elizabeth II in 2000 and became Sir Tom. His debut play alone, “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead,” is performed on thousands of theater stages around the world. Stoppard’s virtuoso dramas and comedies are full of philosophical reflections, fascinating plot twists, and witty tricks. The heroes of the historical trilogy “The Shore of Utopia” unexpectedly became Belinsky and Chaadaev, Herzen and Bakunin, Ogarev and Aksakov, and dozens of other historical characters who have long since settled on the pages of school textbooks and anthologies in Russia. In Stoppard, they turned out to be bright, complex and - most importantly - living people. Endless dialogues about the fate of Russia, about the future of Europe, and next to it - private life, in which heroes fall in love, quarrel, make mistakes, argue, fall in love again, lose loved ones. You need to be a real theater magician to bring back their soul and passion.