The name of Vladimir Lakshin (1933–1993) is well known to everyone who loves Russian literature, drama, and theater. Literary critic, literary scholar, writer, memoirist, Doctor of Philological Sciences, academician of the Russian Academy of Education; author of books about the creative work of Ostrovsky, L. Tolstoy, Chekhov, and about Russian literature and drama. Creator of a unique television library of films about Russian classics—Pushkin, Chekhov, Ostrovsky, Blok, Bulgakov, and many others. All his life V. Ya. Lakshin wrote about drama and theater, but for the first time his articles and memoirs devoted to productions, actors, and their theatrical life are collected into a single book.