The premiere took place in 1955. The performance was played in other theatres as well, but it didn’t have a special success anywhere and looked a heavy everyday melodrama. In the production of A. Remizova the play about the “devastator rouble” itself seemed more significant, unordinary. A life of а district town was depicted on the stage, a world of half-merchants, half-adventurers, wildness covered with a European costume. The paint deepened and started shining out, the characters became larger and unexpected. Nikolay Gritsenko and Yulia Borisova started being talked about.