Essentially, this is the first posthumous publication, which makes an attempt to take a fresh look at the director, who became an entire era in the history of the Russian theater, and a man about whom legends circulated and continue to circulate. The book contains memories of friends and opponents, students, artists and theater employees, and people from what is called “from the outside,” including: E. Akser, V. Gaft, K. Ginkas, G. Yanovskaya, I. Kvasha, N. Lordkipanidze, E. Ioseliani, G. Lordkipanidze, B. Pokrovsky, Y. Rybakov, M. Tumanishvili, M. Chakhava, N. Urushadze, G. Gegechkori, I. Schwartz, S. Yursky, T. Doronina, A. Belinsky, N. Tovstonogova, K. Lavrov, T. Chkheidze, E. Kochergin, O. Basilashvili, L. Makarova, N. Olkhina, Z. Sharko, A. Freundlich, V. Ivchenko, A. Tolubeev, E. Popova, G. Bogachev, G. Izotov, G. Shtil, V. Recepter and many others (and there are a total of 60 of them).