Konstantin Sergeevich Stanislavsky (1863 - 1938) - Russian theater director, actor and teacher, theater theorist and reformer. The creator of the famous acting system, which for 100 years has been very popular in Russia and in the world. First People's Artist of the USSR (1936). In 1888 he became one of the founders of the Moscow Society of Art and Literature. In 1898, together with Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, he founded the Moscow Art Theater.“I dreamed of writing a book about the creative work of the Moscow Art Theater over the twenty-five years of its existence and about how I myself, one of its figures. But it turned out that I spent the last years with most of the troupe of our theater abroad, in Europe and America, and I had to write this book there, at the suggestion of the Americans, and publish it in Boston in English, under the title "My life in art “. This significantly changed my original plan and prevented me from saying a lot of what I wanted to share with the reader. Unfortunately, in the current state of our book market, I have not been able to significantly supplement this book by increasing its length, and therefore had to omit much of what came to mind when I looked back on my life in art. I could not resurrect for the reader the images of many people who worked with us in the Art Theater, some of whom are in full strength to this day, others are no longer in the world. I could not speak more fully about the director's work and all the complex activities in the theater of Vladimir Ivanovich Nemirovich Danchenko and about the work of my other colleagues at work, the actors of the Moscow Art Theater, which was reflected in my life. I could not remember the activities of employees and workers of the theater, with whom we lived in perfect harmony for many years, who loved the theater and, together with us, made sacrifices to it. I could not even name many friends of our theater - all those who, with their attitude towards our work, facilitated our work and, as it were, created the atmosphere in which our activities proceeded.In a word, in its present form this the book is no longer a story in any wayK. Stanislavsky© IDDC

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