The creative biography of Vladimir Recepter was associated with the BDT and its creator G.A. for many years. Tovstonogov. This book is about the theater, about actors whose names (I. Smoktunovsky, O. Borisov, S. Yursky, O. Basilashvili, P. Luspekayev) evoke both reverence and keen interest: what kind of idols are they? What happens behind the scenes? Successes and failures, ambitions and suspicions, passions and intrigues - everything is like in life, but only more capaciously and prominently, because this is THEATER.