“The King and the Jester”: terrible on the face, with demons inside

In February 1999, the King and the Jester successfully played their first big concert in St. Petersburg’s Yubileiny. Having destroyed the dressing room from an excess of joyful feelings, vocalist and founder of the group Mikhail Gorshenev (Pot – Konstantin Plotnikov, who starred in the TV series “Union of Salvation” and “Vertinsky”) urinates with pleasure from the roof of the sports palace. And then, incited by an inner demon, he thinks drunkenly: should he not jump down right now, imprinting his body into the asphalt, and his name into history.

The second vocalist and co-founder of “KiSh” Andrei Knyazev (Prince – Vlad Konoplev, known from the film “Additional Lesson”), who happened right there, dissuades him as best he can, and, standing on the edge of the abyss, the heroes remember the past. Here is a flashback in 1995, when KiSh played for the first time in Moscow at the Sexton club. Here in 1990 – being students of the restoration school, friends choose a name for the group. But 1993 – they perform at the Tam-Tam club and fight with skins.