The history of the Russian theater

This book is a special view of some stages of the formation and development of the Russian theater, the original interpretation of the brightest pages in its history. It is addressed to those times when the theater was a significant part of the life of our society and even became a way of life; When the Russian literary classic was inextricably linked and lived side by side with a domestic drama...

Theater does not tolerate an indifferent viewer, an impartial researcher... Therefore, a successful book about the theater is always addicted: it has sober observation of the historian It is adjacent to the sensed revelation of the memoirist. The author gives brief, but expressive, largely subjective characteristics to directors and actors, whose life and work has the right to judge firsthand.

The book about the history of Russian drama is supplemented by articles about the Russian opera and Russian ballet.