They say the calling to make people laugh and not become a laughingstock is given to only a few. Faina Ranevskaya, Rina Zelyonaya, and Tatyana Peltzer could evoke both kind smiles and hearty, rolling laughter. And they could also force people—if only for a long while—to fall silent in their thoughts… The characters played by these brilliant comic actresses will always inspire admiration. Catchphrases from films they invented right on set became winged. Even Faina Ranevskaya’s own life, brilliantly, turned into a theatrical tragicomedy. Rina Zelyonaya’s distinctive presence is remembered and loved through her roles as Tortilla in "The Adventures of Buratino," Mrs. Hudson in "Sherlock Holmes," and countless other episodic, yet memorable parts. Tatyana Peltzer, ever sparkling, called herself a "happy old woman." There was truth in that: at seventy-five, playing all kinds of grandmothers, she would jump over a fence, dance on a house roof, and ride on top of a trolleybus. Their creative biographies are known, it seems, inside out. That’s why the listener will value even more the observations voiced at the studio "Ardis" by Gleb Skorokhodov, a contemporary who personally knew each of these great actresses.