The name of Vladimir Yakovlevich Lakshin (1933–1993) is well known to everyone who loves Russian literature, drama, and theater. Literary critic, literary critic, writer, memoirist, Doctor of Philology, academician of the Russian Academy of Education; author of books about the works of Ostrovsky, L. Tolstoy, Chekhov, about Russian literature and drama; creator of a unique television library of films about Russian classics - Pushkin, Chekhov, Ostrovsky, Blok, Bulgakov and many others. All his life V. Ya. Lakshin wrote about drama and theater, but for the first time his articles and memoirs dedicated to performances, actors, and their theatrical life were collected in one book. F. Michalski. Days and people of the Art Theater[26]To the article