Tale of the pope and of his workman Balda

Evgeny Speransky
In "Tale of the pope and of his workman Balda," for the first time, if I am not mistaken, the theater of masks was used in such close contact with puppets. It was also new that the performance was like a story, without a reader; not only was not a single word of Pushkin broken, but it seems that even all the punctuation marks were preserved.

Pop, Popadya, Popovna - these were masked actors. Balda was an actor without a mask.