order of the garter, there can be no more than twenty-four knights, not counting the king prince of wales himself. knights of the order were many historical figures, including winston churchel, margaret thatcher and the russian monarchs, alexander i and nicholas ii. today the taganka theater celebrates its sixtieth anniversary; it was created on april 23, 1964 in moscow, on the basis of the moscow drama and comedy theater, director yuri lyubimov. his students are from the chuka school. the theater opened that day with a performance by the good man from tezuana. this has not been seen in the capital since the avant-garde experiments of the twenties. as critics wrote, it was a revival of the playful theatricality of mirkhold, combined with the classics of stanislavsky, the theater of the streets of brecht and the vakhtangov school. no curtain, no decoration, unity of the auditorium stage. it was a unique fusion of dramatic acting. over time, due to censorship bans, yuri lyubimov ended up in exile, but then returned and for a long time led the theater, which today has a new repertoire, but i