It's a sad book
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It's a sad book
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"Write what you see, and what you don't see shouldn't be written." It was no accident that Sofia Stanislavovna Pilyavskaya chose these words from Mikhail Bulgakov's "Theatrical Novel" as an epigraph for her "Sad Book." Why sad? Because it couldn't be any other way: Pilyavskaya was born in 1911 and lived until 2000. Her fate encompassed the entire terrible 20th century, which did not spare her, but hit her hard: her father's arrest in 1937, the war, the loss of loved ones. But this woman had so much dignity, nobility, so much wisdom and fortitude that the wolfhound of the century could not break her. Pilyavskaya really wrote only about what she saw. And she saw a lot and many people. Elena Sergeevna Bulgakova, Olga Leonardovna Knipper-Chekhova, Ivan Mikhailovich Moskvin and many others will appear before you as living people. Pilyavskaya will tell how Ivan Moskvin saved the theater troupe that found itself in Minsk on the eve of the occupation, how the Moscow Art Theater abducted the repressed Nikolai Erdman from a train car with prisoners, how she washed Anton Pavlovich's death shirt at Knipper-Chekhova's request, how after her father's arrest Stanislavsky did not let her be fired from the theater, where she served until the end of her life, playing many roles. This is a sad book, but not hopeless. Because it is about people who were creative, and therefore, they knew what they were living for.
See also:
- All books by the publisher
- All books by the author
- All books in the series Persona. Actor's book