The ceremony, titled "Dreams of Russia" (Сны о России), opened with an on-screen video showing 11-year-old Liza Temnikova playing a character named Lubov (Russian for 'love') reciting the Russian alphabet. Each letter is associated with images of a famous Russian person or landmark. Many of the letters features some of Russia's most famous writers such as Dostoyevsky, Nabokov, Tolstoy, Chekhov, and countless others that have impacted Russian history, culture, literature, and philosophy. Some of these featured writers and countless others were at one point banned in the USSR for censorship. During the rise of the USSR and Stalin, many published works were banned and censored, because the information from those materials was recognized as extremist by the government. Such authors like Tolstoy, who published, The Kreutzer Sonata, and The Kingdom of God Is Within You, were banned for its radical views. Lyubov then flew into the air as she dreamed of grabbing the tail of a kite and being lifted far off the stage. Nine different floats, carrying Russian landscapes, passed beneath her as she slept