Over the past ten years, the Bolshoi Theater has been mired in high-profile scandals and conflicts. They have become in our minds the same signs of the times as endless plane crashes and murders in broad daylight. Litigation with Volochkova, pickets against the “Children of Rosenthal”, a six-year reconstruction worth a billion euros with embezzlement made public, the production of the opera “Ruslan and Lyudmila”, which disgraced the newly opened historical stage, the war between the leadership of the Bolshoi Theater and Prime Minister Nikolai Tsiskaridze. And finally, the case with Filin, the cup of discord overflowing. This book is a chronicle of the big scandals of the Bolshoi, a kind of history of its destruction. What is going on in the main theater of the country, which until recently was considered our national treasure, and has now turned into a source of profit for art tycoons? Who will finally unravel this snake tangle when? It seems that the authorities have no time for culture, and chaos in the Bolshoi is gaining momentum...