“Maria Nikolaevna Ermolova is a whole era for Russian theater and a symbol of femininity, beauty, strength, pathos, sincere simplicity and modesty,” wrote an enthusiastic admirer of her talent, Konstantin Stanislavsky, about the actress. In her book, the famous writer, playwright and poetess Tatyana Lvovna Shchepkina-Kupernik, with the sharpness and vividness of her personal impressions, talks about the performance of Yermolova and the entire brilliant ensemble of actors for which the Maly Theater was famous at the turn of the century. This is not an ordinary memoir book - it recreates with great completeness the life and creative biography of the actress, her environment, it reveals to the reader the rich and complex inner world of the brilliant Russian theater actress Maria Ermolova.