“It was dawn when Andreev-Burlak and I left A.A. Brenko. There were a lot of people on the streets. They carried blessed Easter cakes and Easter cakes. Peopl...

“June is a busy month for Moscow horse racing, and from dawn to eight-nine o’clock in the morning, horse owners and athletes were always present at work. The...

“Of all the theatrical celebrities of my youth, A. A. Brenko remained alive the longest. Before my eyes, her life sparkled for half a century in continuous s...

“In December 1917, I wrote the poem “Petersburg,” read it to my friends and locked it in the table: it was not the time for poetry. A year later, I bought a ...

“Each Moscow theater had its own audience. The Maly Theater had the most demanding and strict audience. The first performances were always attended by the sa...

“In the first week of Lent, the troupe parted amicably with Grigoriev, and half of it “at their word” decided to serve with him the following winter. Grigori...

“Hackworks have existed for a long time, but under different names, or even without names at all: there were entrepreneurs who assembled a troupe for one or ...

“In the Tambov theater, in a large stone building, on the ground floor, there was a huge storage room with two wide low windows above the ground: one to the ...

“In the old days, you didn’t go to the theater, but ended up like you end up in the wrong carriage, in prison, or under the wheels of a train. And whoever go...