My path to the "old women" of the Small Theater. Diaries. Conversations

People's Artist of Russia, laureate of the State Prize Lyudmila Petrovna Polyakova kept diaries from 1956 to 1963 and from 1975 to 2012. And she decided to publish them without bills. A unique evidence of time has become the property of the reader. A little prince, straw, genius, maestro - all these names will be deciphered, and you will find out who Lyudmila Polyakova calls. You will visit the theater. K. S. Stanislavsky and the theater at the Taganka, the theater at the Malaya Bronnaya and Maly Theater, will meet with outstanding directors - Andrei Goncharov, Leonid Varpakhovsky, Boris Lvov Anokhin, Larisa Shepitko, with Anatoly Vasiliev, Adolf, who left us. Shapiro, Andrei Smirnov. You will visit the stage and behind theatrical scenes, you will see the “first plots” in ordinary life, and not just in roles. With a reservation: it is not always possible to tear the artist from his work. Judging by the diaries of Lyudmila Polyakova, it is difficult: “I woke up and inwardly felt the image of my mother in“ Vanyushin’s children ”... I so want everyone to be fine. I go to everything, for all costs and get a muzzle on the table, I stand, wipe and move on, not remembering evil. And I just ask him to survive and move on. I forgive everyone without any complaints. But at the same time preserving my self. ”