[Signed] Shapiro, A. How the Curtain Fell (Kak zakryvalsya zanaves). Moscow: Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie (NLO), 1999. In Russian.

[Автограф] А. Шапиро.
Как закрывался занавес.
Москва: Новое литературное обозрение, 1999.
349, [3] с., 16 с. ил. ; 20,5х12,7 см. Твердый издательский переплет. Экземпляр с автографом автора.
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[Autograph] Adolf Shapiro.
How the Curtain Fell (Kak zakryvalsya zanaves).
Moscow: Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie (NLO), 1999.
349, [3] pp., 16 pp. illus. ; 20.5x12.7 cm. Publisher's hardcover. Copy signed by the author.

This 1999 volume is a profound meditation on the transformation of the theatrical world during the collapse of the Soviet Union, written by the world-renowned director Adolf Shapiro. The text provides a deep dive into the internal logic of the legendary Riga Youth Theatre (TYuZ), which Shapiro led for decades until its controversial closure, including the arrangement of memoirs that reflect on the intersection of art, politics, and historical trauma. Shapiro’s narrative is both a personal professional diary and a broader cultural autopsy of an era when the "curtain fell" not just on a specific stage, but on an entire ideological system.  As a vital primary source, this volume documents the intellectual history of Soviet and post-Soviet theatre, published by the prestigious "Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie" in their specialized theatre series. The book includes 16 pages of rare archival photographs documenting landmark productions and the actors who defined an era. This specific copy is especially notable for the author’s autograph, making it a significant bibliographical rarity for theatre historians, scholars of Baltic-Russian cultural relations, and collectors of modern directorial memoirs.