Ten Visits to My Beloved, staged Murat Abulkatinov, is based on the novel of the same name by Vasily Aksyonov, one of the prominent representatives of "village prose". The plot centers on high school student Oleg, who is overtaken by his first passionate love for Tanya, a girl from a neighboring village. His meetings with his beloved alternate with scenes of teenage life: the suicide of a friend, vague feelings for another girl, betrayal...

The director defines the genre of the production as "scenes from yesterday's youth". "The novel tells a very simple and sensual story of first love. And the main character constantly says the phrase: "It was yesterday", - says Murat Abulkatinov. - I tried to preserve in this production the feeling of nostalgia for youth and its naked perception of the world, its absolute sincerity, all of which is inherent in the prose of Vasily Aksyonov. Just like Aksyonov, I am also interested in examining feelings in their extreme degree. Therefore, for me, Ten Visits to My Beloved is a novel about lost paradise, the mistakes of youth, blindness caused by love."

The play intertwines details of village life of the 1970s, Old Testament images mixed in the mind of a Soviet high school student with Pushkin's poems, and the language of local residents, accurately conveyed by the writer, with its inherent turns of phrase and sound.

In order to better understand Vasily Aksyonov’s poetic images, the actors and director of the play visited his native village of Yalan in Krasnoyarsk Krai, where the novel’s story begins. Aksyonov himself says that he began writing Ten Visits to My Beloved out of longing for his native places, isolated from the rest of the world by thousands of kilometers of taiga. “Once we were in Yalan, we realized that we needed to recreate this absolute poetry of the place on stage,” says the director. Returning to Moscow, he asked the set designer to make changes to hew work, guided by a line from the novel: “The sky in the river is like a mirror, flawless.”

In addition to the music written by composer Simona Markevich, Ten Visits to My Beloved features many songs by popular performers of the 1970s: Valery Obodzinsky, Larisa Mondrus, Salvatore Adamo, The Rolling Stones, The Singing Guitars and others.