Playing Cards Criminal

There are natural monuments, archaeological and architectural monuments, literary monuments and written monuments. A sculptural statue or piece of equipment placed on a pedestal is also called a monument. A real deck of cards is also a kind of monument, a monument to eight favorite actors and their immortal movie heroes. Only eight, it's impossible to cram all your favorite actors into one small deck. “This is not serious!” Morgunov-Experienced would say with a businesslike air. How durable monuments are is a rhetorical question. There is no guarantee that a bronze monument will be more reliable than, for example, a paper postcard. There are many examples of this in history. Postcards and photographs depicting this or that monument or building have been preserved, and there are no ruins left of the building itself. And if there were no image of the lost object on a small piece of cardboard, there would be no memory of it. “Time destroys granite castles and fills cities with sand, but for the cards that a gypsy holds in their hands, the year does not matter,” Leonid Derbenev wrote in verse to the famous song. Paradoxical and sad. There are no actors, but they live in their roles and continue to charge everyone who remembers them with optimism.
The roles of kings, queens and jacks are played by the heroes of your favorite Soviet comedies: Coward, Dunce and Experienced from "Moonshiners", "Operation Y" and "Prisoner of the Caucasus"; Tall man from "Partner"; Lelik and Gesha Kozodoev from the "Diamond Hand"; Khmyr, Oblique and Associate Professor, as well as Evgeny Ivanovich Troshkin in the form of a recidivist Bely from "Gentlemen of Fortune".