This is a new biography of the great Russian theater director and actor Konstantin Stanislavskii (1863-1938). The book includes several never before published letters. Also available on the subject: Radishcheva, O.A. Stanislavskii i Nemirovich-Danchenko: V Dvukh Tomakh (1999); Brodskaia, G.Iu. Alekseev-Stanislavskii, Chekhov i Drugie: Vishnevosadskaia Epopeiia: V 2-kh Knigakh (2000); Toporkov, V.O. Stanislavskii na Repetitsii (2002).