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Published by the theatre's own press at the conclusion of the war, the text provides a deep dive into the internal logic of the Stanislavski system and Socialist Realism, including the arrangement of stage designs, rehearsal photographs, and primary documents from iconic productions of the 1939–1940 seasons. The book serves as a definitive chronicle of the theatre’s aesthetic evolution, featuring detailed entries on performances of Chekhov, Gorky, and contemporary Soviet playwrights, as well as portraits of the legendary troupe members who defined the era’s acting standards.\u003cbr\u003eThe edition is distinguished by its high production value and artistic sophistication, featuring graphic ornamentation by the renowned woodcutter and book artist Leonid Khizhinsky. His decorative elements—including vignettes and headpieces—frame the extensive collection of photographs and tipped-in plates with a classical elegance. 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This production was led by the legendary director and actress Serafima Birman, under the artistic guidance of Ivan Bersenev, marking one of the most successful and culturally significant chapters in the theater's late-1940s repertoire. The program provides a deep dive into the internal logic of the performance, including the arrangement of the cast list, the names of the creative team, and the specific scene breakdown that defines the play's dramatic structure.\u003cbr\u003ePublished by the Central Theater Box Office (TsTK) in a portable pocket format, this 16-page ephemeral document was never intended for long-term preservation, making extant copies highly sought after by collectors. The program serves as a primary source for theater historians, preserving the specific historical moment when Simonov’s lyrical drama resonated with a public still recovering from the trauma of the Front. The typography and layout reflect the modest yet dignified aesthetic of the early post-war years. 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In Russian.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe set includes: Vera Tsignadze, Veriko Anjaparidze, Sesilia Takaishvili, Tamara Chavchavadze, Marina Tbileli, Medea Japaridze, Maria Bauer, Medea Chakhava, Zakharia Gomelauri, Shota Kiknadze, Akaki Kvantaliani, Aleksandre Zhorzholiani, Akaki Khorava, Tengiz Mushkudiani, Sergo Zakariadze, Edisher Magalashvili, Akaki Vasadze.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis exceptional collection of seventeen vintage booklets, published in 1958 by the Ministry of Culture of the Georgian SSR, serves as a comprehensive gallery of the \"Golden Age\" of Georgian theater and cinema. Edited by V. Kuprava, each slim volume is dedicated to a legendary performer who shaped the cultural identity of the republic during the mid-20th century. The set features such titans of the stage as Veriko Anjaparidze, Akaki Khorava, and Akaki Vasadze, alongside beloved stars like Medea Japaridze and Sergo Zakariadze. These booklets were produced during a period of intense artistic flourishing in Tbilisi, documenting the careers of actors from the Rustaveli and Marjanishvili theaters, as well as pioneers of the Georgian National Ballet like Vera Tsignadze.\u003cbr\u003eEach booklet follows a consistent elegant design, featuring portrait photography and biographical sketches that highlight the artist's most celebrated roles in both classical drama and the burgeoning Georgian film industry. The narrow, portable format (11x21 cm) was typical for theatrical souvenirs of the 1950s, intended for both the dedicated playgoer and the professional historian. With a limited print run of 5,000 copies, complete sets of these seventeen portraits have become increasingly rare. 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Edited by the distinguished theater critic and close collaborator Lyubov Gurevich, this edition provides a rare, unvarnished look at the laboratory of Stanislavsky’s mind.\u003cbr\u003eThe book meticulously reproduces diary entries, rehearsal notes, and reflections on his early roles and productions. These records document his dissatisfaction with the clichés of the 19th-century theater and his search for a new, truthful method of psychological acting. In this study, the editorial preparation by Gurevich provides a deep typological analysis that offers a deep dive into the internal logic of Stanislavsky’s creative process, including the arrangement of his early observations on \"the life of the human spirit\" and the mechanics of stage emotion.\u003cbr\u003eA significant feature of this 1939 edition is the collection of 18 plates of illustrations, which include rare archival photographs of Stanislavsky’s early performances, sketches for costumes, and diagrams for stage movement. 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Under the editorship of Konstantin Yukov, the magazine served as a battleground for defining Socialist Realism in film during a period of intense ideological pressure and artistic transition.\u003cbr\u003eThe issues in this collection document the Soviet film industry at a crucial crossroads. They contain rare theoretical articles by masters such as Sergei Eisenstein and Vsevolod Pudovkin, reviews of legendary films like The Baltic Deputy, and early discussions regarding the \"Lenin in October\" project. However, the 1937 volume is also a grim record of the era's political climate; many pages are dedicated to the \"unmasking\" of \"enemies of the people\" within the film industry, including the fall of the head of Soviet cinema, Boris Shumyatsky, and various directors and critics who vanished during the Great Purge.\u003cbr\u003eThe magazine is richly illustrated with film stills, production photographs, and portraits of actors and directors, many of which were suppressed shortly after publication. In this study, the collection provides a deep typological analysis that offers a deep dive into the internal logic of the Soviet montage school versus the emerging \"heroic\" realism, including the arrangement of narrative structures and visual composition in pre-war cinema. 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Izvekov, who organized the Soviet Union's first theater laboratory in 1923, approachs the stage not merely as a decorative space, but as a complex technical machine designed to facilitate the artistic goals of a performance.\u003cbr\u003eThe book provides an exhaustive analysis of the evolution and mechanics of the stage. Izvekov details the transition from traditional theatrical spaces to modern, technologically-driven environments. Key topics include the geometry of sightlines, the mechanics of revolving stages, trap doors, and the structural requirements of stage fly systems. The author places a heavy emphasis on how technical means serve the creative intent of the director and set designer, bridging the gap between engineering and art.\u003cbr\u003eRichly illustrated, the volume contains a wealth of photographs, blueprints, and schemes showcasing Soviet and European stage innovations of the early 20th century. The elegant binding by L. 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These authors were the architects of the duo’s stage personas and would later go on to write some of the most iconic masterpieces of Soviet cinema, including The Diamond Arm and Kidnapping, Caucasian Style.\u003cbr\u003eThe duo, consisting of Yuri Timoshenko (the lanky, Ukrainian-speaking Tarapunka) and Efim Berezin (the straight-man, Russian-speaking Shtepsel), represented a unique cultural bridge within the USSR. Their performances were a masterclass in linguistic play and social satire, often using their distinct dialects and contrasting temperaments to poke gentle but pointed fun at Soviet bureaucracy, everyday life, and domestic foibles. Published during the \"Thaw\" period, this volume reflects a time when satirical comedy was gaining a new, more vibrant lease on life in the Soviet Union.\u003cbr\u003eThe 120-page book is illustrated with charming drawings and photos that evoke the atmosphere of mid-century variety shows. 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As a representative of the finest acting traditions, his recollections serve as a bridge between the 19th-century theatrical schools and the new Soviet academic stage.  Issued by the State Academic Drama Theater (as the Alexandrinsky was then known), this volume was published to celebrate a master whose \"ageless talent\" continued to resonate with the \"broad masses of the Soviet audience.\" As a vital primary source, this volume documents the daily life, creative struggles, and backstage atmosphere of one of Russia’s most prestigious stages during a period of immense cultural transition. The book is enhanced by illustrations and portraits, capturing the visual essence of the roles discussed. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stanza Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44250601422890,"sku":null,"price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/6359\/5306\/files\/IMG_0782.jpg?v=1775950409"},{"product_id":"the-grand-dramatic-theatre-bolshoy-dramaticheskiy-teatr-a-collection-of-articles-leningrad-1935-in-russian","title":"The Grand Dramatic Theatre (Bolshoy Dramaticheskiy teatr). A Collection of Articles. Leningrad, 1935. In Russian","description":"\u003cp\u003eБольшой Драматический Театр. Сборник статей. Государственный Большой драматический театр им. М. Горького и Государственная академия искусствознания. Ответственный редактор С. Безпрозванный. Художественный и технический редактор А. Кроленко. Художник В. Белкин.\u003cbr\u003eЛенинград: Издание Государственного Большого драматического театра имени М. Горького, 1935.\u003cbr\u003e[4], 385, [4] с., 61 л. ил., цв. ил.\u003cbr\u003eТираж 5 000 экз.\u003cbr\u003eОбычный формат, в издательском коленкоровом переплете.\u003cbr\u003eСостояние: хорошее. Коленкоровый переплет с заметным выцветанием и разводами от влаги по правой части верхней крышки и по левой части нижней крышки, а также по верхнему обрезу. Потертости коленкора и углов, легкие потертости корешка. Блок крепкий, текст и иллюстрации полные, цветные вклейки яркие.\u003cbr\u003e***\u003cbr\u003eThe Grand Dramatic Theatre. A Collection of Articles. The State Maxim Gorky Grand Dramatic Theatre and the State Academy of Arts Studies. Editor-in-chief S. Bezprozvanny. Art and technical editor A. Krolenko. Artist V. Belkin.\u003cbr\u003eLeningrad: Edition of the Gorky Grand Dramatic Theatre, 1935.\u003cbr\u003e[4], 385, [4] pp., 61 plates of illustrations, including color plates.\u003cbr\u003ePrint run 5,000 copies.\u003cbr\u003eStandard octavo, in publisher's cloth binding.\u003cbr\u003eCondition: good. Cloth binding with noticeable fading and water stains along the right side of the upper cover. Text block firm, text and illustrations complete, color plates vivid.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Bolshoi Dramatic Theatre, founded in Petrograd in 1919 on the initiative of Maxim Gorky, Alexander Blok, and Maria Andreyeva, became one of the central institutions of early Soviet theatrical culture, and this 1935 volume — issued jointly by the theatre and the State Academy of Arts Studies on the eve of its sixteenth season — is the first comprehensive scholarly history of its work. The collection assembles essays by the leading Leningrad theatre historians and critics of the period: Evgeny Kuznetsov on the founding of the theatre, Stefan Mokulsky on its engagement with the classical repertoire, Alexei Gvozdev and Adrian Piotrovsky on its expressionist productions, Konstantin Tverskoy on Soviet dramaturgy, Anatoly Butskoy on music in the dramatic theatre, and S. Abashidze on the audience, with extensive appendices documenting the company's chronicle, personnel, and repertoire from 1919 to 1935. The volume is also a striking visual document of the Soviet stage, illustrated with sixty-one plates including color reproductions of designs by Shchuko, Annenkov, Belkin, Levin, Tyrsa, and other leading scenographers. The book has additional poignancy as a near-final monument of the brilliant Leningrad school of theatre studies before the Great Terror: Piotrovsky and Tverskoy were both arrested and executed in 1937, and the volume preserves their mature critical voices on the very threshold of their disappearance.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stanza Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44288831619114,"sku":null,"price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/6359\/5306\/files\/IMG_1425.jpg?v=1777206468"},{"product_id":"sakketti-l-a-ed-musical-education-foundations-of-musical-theoretical-knowledge-muzykalnoe-obrazovanie-osnovy-muzykalno-teoreticheskikh-znaniy-library-of-self-education-series-1903","title":"Sakketti, L. A. (ed.). Musical Education: Foundations of Musical-Theoretical Knowledge (Muzykalnoe obrazovanie. Osnovy muzykalno-teoreticheskikh znaniy). Library of Self-Education series, 1903.","description":"\u003cp\u003eПод редакцией проф. Л. А. Саккетти. Составил А. И. Пузыревский. Музыкальное образование. Основы музыкально-теоретических знаний. Серия: Библиотека самообразования.\u003cbr\u003eСанкт-Петербург: Типография Акц. Общ. Брокгауз-Ефрон, 1903.\u003cbr\u003e303 с. с многочисленными нотными примерами в тексте. Обычный формат.\u003cbr\u003eИздательский коленкоровый переплет зеленого цвета с золотым тиснением; на верхней крышке золотом оттиснуто название на эсперанто: «Teorio de Muziko».\u003cbr\u003eСостояние хорошее: переплет крепкий, блок плотный, утрат нет. \u003cbr\u003e***\u003cbr\u003eEdited by Prof. L. A. Sakketti; compiled by A. I. Puzyrevsky. Musical Education: Foundations of Musical-Theoretical Knowledge. Series: Library of Self-Education.\u003cbr\u003eSt. Petersburg: Printing House of the Joint-Stock Company Brockhaus-Efron, 1903.\u003cbr\u003e303 pp. with numerous musical examples in the text. Octavo.\u003cbr\u003ePublisher's green cloth binding, gilt-stamped; the upper cover bears a gilt title in Esperanto: «Teorio de Muziko» («Theory of Music»).\u003cbr\u003eCondition good: binding firm, text block tight, no losses. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA solid late-imperial primer in music theory issued under the prestigious Brockhaus-Efron «Library of Self-Education» — a flagship enterprise of Russian popular education that, between 1894 and the First World War, brought university-level surveys in the humanities and sciences to a mass readership. The volume was edited by Liveriy (Livio) Antonovich Sakketti (1852–1916), the Italian-born musicologist and longtime professor of music history and aesthetics at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, and compiled by Alexei Ivanovich Puzyrevsky (1855–1917), historian of Russian music, inspector of the Conservatory, and one of the principal Russian writers on the development of national musical institutions. Their joint manual moves systematically from the elements of notation, scales and intervals, through harmony and counterpoint, into musical forms and the foundations of orchestration, illustrated by hundreds of engraved examples — an unusually thorough single-volume conspectus for its date and intended audience. The present copy is rendered particularly distinctive by the gilt cover title in Esperanto, «Teorio de Muziko»: almost certainly the device of an early-twentieth-century Russian Esperantist owner who had the book privately rebound or restamped, a small but vivid trace of the broad linguistic-utopian movement that flourished in Russia in the years before 1917.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stanza Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44288873660458,"sku":null,"price":130.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/6359\/5306\/files\/IMG_1457.jpg?v=1777209166"},{"product_id":"polyanovsky-m-mayakovsky-as-film-actor-mayakovsky-kinoakter-edited-by-lev-kassil-1940-in-russian-first-edition","title":"Polyanovsky, M. Mayakovsky as Film Actor (Mayakovsky kinoakter) \/ edited by Lev Kassil, 1940. In Russian. First edition.","description":"\u003cp\u003eПоляновский, Макс Лазаревич. Маяковский киноактер \/ под редакцией Л. Кассиля.\u003cbr\u003eМосква : Госкиноиздат, 1940. 88 с., ил., портр. ; 19,3×13,7 см.\u003cbr\u003eИздательская иллюстрированная обложка. Тираж 5 000 экз.\u003cbr\u003eРедактор Т. Урусова. \u003cbr\u003eФотографии с кинокадров публикуются в книге впервые.\u003cbr\u003eПереплет хороший: обложка пожелтела, лёгкие потёртости; корешок с утратами. Блок хороший: бумага незначительно пожелтела, иллюстрации и текст чистые.\u003cbr\u003e***\u003cbr\u003ePolyanovsky, Max. Mayakovsky kinoakter [Mayakovsky as Film Actor] \/ edited by Lev Kassil.\u003cbr\u003eMoscow : Goskinoizdat (State Cinema Publishing House), 1940. 88 pp., illustrated with photographs and portraits ; 19.3×13.7 cm.\u003cbr\u003ePublisher's illustrated paper wrappers. Print run 5,000 copies. \u003cbr\u003eBinding good: covers yellowed with light wear; spine with losses and tears. Text block good: paper with light age-toning; photographs and text clean throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFew aspects of Vladimir Mayakovsky's creative legacy are as little known as his brief career as a film actor in 1918, when he appeared in three silent films for a private Moscow studio. Max Polyanovsky's investigation, the only monograph devoted to this subject, grew out of a chance conversation he had with Mayakovsky himself in Simferopol in July 1926 — the same occasion that produced the frontispiece photograph, taken by Polyanovsky and showing Mayakovsky in a characteristic pose. In the conversation Mayakovsky recalled his film work of eight years earlier as all but forgotten even then. Polyanovsky spent the following years reconstructing the story from film stills, testimony, and archival documents; the resulting book was published a decade after the poet's suicide in 1930 and five years after Stalin's pronouncement that made Mayakovsky the canonical poet of the Soviet epoch.\u003cbr\u003eThe three films covered are: \"Baryshnya i khuligan\" (The Young Lady and the Hooligan, 1918), in which Mayakovsky played the hooligan and also wrote the screenplay — the only one of the three films to survive; \"Ne dlya deneg rodivshiysya\" (Not Born for Money, 1918), an adaptation of Jack London's \"Martin Eden\" in which he played Martin Eden; and \"Zakovannaya filmoy\" (Shackled by Film, 1918), in which he played an enchanted artist and also wrote the screenplay. The book reproduces photographs from these films that had never previously been published. 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