History of the Russian Drama Theater

The name of the wonderful theater figure in the Silver Age - Nikolai Jewinov is returning to the Russian reader.
Written in Paris, in exile, the book is dedicated to the history of the Russian theater from ancient ritual staging and ending with the creative searches of the pre -revolutionary years, the participant of which, along with Stanislavsky, Meyerhold, Tairov, Vakhtangov, was its author. The reader is waiting for a story about the People’s Theater and church theatrical rites, about the spectacles of the times of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich and Peter the Great, about the court and the landlord of the fortress theater, about the outstanding actors Volkov, Shchepkin, Zhemchugovova, Komissarzhevskaya, about the coup in world stage art, perfectly Moscow time ...
The book is published according to the New York edition of 1955. A huge number of illustrations make this publication truly unique.
This book is the fourth in a series dedicated to the history of the Russian theater, after the theatrical antiquity of N. Drisen, "History of the Russian Ballet" A. Pleshcheyev and "History of the Russian Opera" V. Cheshikhin