From all sides it is Kyrgyzstan's lake Issyk Kull is huge as an ocean. On the north side of it there is a lonely, one storey school with white walls. Russian language teacher Talip is retired but he wonders whether it possible for Russian literature to retire? The seagulls that fly above the Issyk Kul lake remind him Chekhov's seagulls and he convinces pupils in the school to perform The Seagull in the Russian language.
—anonymous