Elina's mother Anna Yakovleva is in love with poetry andFrom the very birth, she read a lot to the girl by heart. They started with children's poems. Marshak, Borto, Mikhalkov, then gradually moved on to Pushkin, Yesenin, Tyutchev, Fet, Lermontov. And the daughter memorized. Mom decided to show her how famous actors read poetry. Tsvetaeva, Pasternak, Yevtushenko, Dementyev. And she liked it. - Elya really liked the filming of the program, - Anna said, - Maxim Galkin behaves very tactfully with children. If he sees that the child is worried or tense, he starts joking, makes compliments, tries to talk. Elya was worried during the filming. That's why she couldn't answer Galkin's questions right away. Then my daughter explained to me that she was thinking about the answer. During rehearsals, Elya prepared about 7 poems, but during filming she managed to read two: Goethe's ballad "The Forest King" translated by Zhukovsky and Shakespeare's monologue of Hamlet, as well as prose - Dragunsky's story "The Enchanted Letter". Elya knows the meaning of all the poems she read and can explain them. We always analyze the meaning of all the works with her. I think it is important to understand what you are talking about. In addition to poetry, the girl has many other hobbies. Elya spends a lot of time reading, loves music, goes to a chess school, does acrobatics and vocals, draws and ... learns sign language from video lessons. She dreams of becoming a writer. Recently, Elina has managed to become a real TV star: the girl is often invited to perform in various TV programs: “Let Them Talk”, “Tonight” on Channel One, “Our Man” on the Rossiya channel, the show “Ukraine is Looking for Talent” on STB and others. Sometimes her mother is even reproached for taking her little daughter to filming so often. “I never force my daughter to go somewhere against her will,” says Anna. “She likes the filming process itself, she likes reading from the stage. And on trips, I create the most comfortable conditions for her. Rather, I get very tired: I don’t get enough sleep, and the child sleeps well even on the train. We were invited to the “Best of All” program twice. The first time was in November, but I refused because Elya was preparing for a concert at a music school, and the weather was very bad. A significant disadvantage of traveling to the show is that Elya misses classes at chess and music school. But we take chess with us on the road. In general, our family loves to travel, to change the environment. In June, we go to the sea in the Kaliningrad region for the whole summer. There we are usually invited to perform at events dedicated to the Day of the City of Kaliningrad and Baltiysk.