Article: The Moscow Art Theatre's stepdaughter: Stanislavsky and Olga Gzovskaya.

Enamored by the actresses' talents, Stanislavsky did not trust them. "They all deceived me," he used to say, and he counted the names of the actresses who had abandoned him.

Vladimir Volkenstein (1)

A forty-four-year-old Stanislavsky met Olga Gzovskaya at the resort in Kislovodsk during his summer vacation, in 1907. (See Fig. 1) At the age of twenty-four, Gzovskaya was a rising star of the Russian theatre. Upon her graduation from the Imperial Drama School in 1905, she had become an actress at the Moscow Maly Theatre, and during the first year of her professional career, was already serenaded by critics and audiences. "A certain glow encircled her, in ...

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