“If they wouldn’t let me play, I’d pay money myself, just to get on stage…”. These words belong to one of our most famous actors, Oleg Tabakov. Tabakov was one of the founders of the “Sovremennik” theatre, worked at the Moscow Art Theatre, and now he leads the popular theatrical studio “Tabakerka.” But the book is about more than Tabakov’s work on stage and in film—here the reader will also see the other facets of the actor, known only within the artistic circles.