“This book is not so much about the results, but about a grating, burning presence, about evidence of true creativity. Not so much about performances or films, but about the stunning surprise that falls on you while you watch how it is done, look at what has already been done - and at the same time you can really discuss, argue, admire the live work...” Natalya Isaeva’s book talks about the period the stage life of Anatoly Vasiliev from the production of “Amphitryon” at the Comedy Française (2002) to work on “Dau” by Ilya Khrzhanovsky (2021). The famous director spent these twenty years in a kind of creative “wandering” abroad after he was deprived first of the building of the School of Dramatic Art, and then of the post of artistic director of the theater. The essays collected under one cover are written from the perspective of not just a connoisseur of theatrical art, but a close friend and colleague of the director, and therefore present a complex - at the same time professional and emotional - view of his work. Natalya Isaeva (1954–2022) - Doctor of Historical Sciences, historian and interpreter Indian philosophy and religion, Sanskrit scholar, researcher of the art of theater, translator of texts of the French avant-garde, works of S. Kierkegaard, H.-T. Leman and A. Artaud.