I am Stanislavski’s miscarriage

"To gain recognition, one must—it is even necessary—to die," Faina Georgievna Ranevskaya used to say. One must, but not her. She was never shy about expressing herself. Ranevskaya's wit was like a reflex—it was involuntary.Among hundreds of books about Faina Ranevskaya, these "Notes..." contain not only her best aphorisms and quotations, which together tell the full story of her life, but also memories of the most famous people of that era: Anna Akhmatova, with whom Ranevskaya had shared the experience of evacuation, Rostislav Plyatte, Olga Aroseva, and many, many others...