VAGAPOVA N.M. THREE RUSSIAN DIRECTORS IN EUROPE. UNREAD PAGES IN THE HISTORY OF RUSSIAN ÉMIGRÉ THEATRE: 1920S-1960S. MOSCOW: GOSUDARSTVENNYJ INSTITUT ISKUSSTVOZNANIYA, 2002. 379 P
In: Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta: naučnyj žurnal = Moscow State University bulletin. Serija 9, Filologija, Heft №6, 2023, S. 200-205
The review presents a monograph by Natalia Vagapova, a well-known domestic theatre critic, slavist and translator, dedicated to the contribution of Russian emigration to European culture. This study, based on unique factual and archival material, gives a deep and objective idea about fruitful influence that reprsentatives of Russian theatre school exerted on the development of Bulgarian and Yugoslavian Theatres. The most outstanding directors who left Russia - Nikolai Massalitinov, Petr Sharov, Yuriy Rakitin - spread the experience of Moscow Art Theatre and the system of Stanislavsky, and made a huge impact on the history of forein theatre, especially the spread of Chekhov's drama.