The awards ceremony for the best Russian writers was dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the publication of Maxim Gorky's Untimely Thoughts. Fragments of Gorky's texts on the topics of war, arrests, religion and freedom were heard from the lips of students of the Moscow Art Theater School, Brusnikin's Workshop. The main musical instrument of the ceremony was the drum, which counted the minutes and decades of the 20th century. Gorky's poems appeared on the screens to his rhythm.