MEMORIES BY VARVARA MUZIL-BOROZDINA ABOUT A.N. OSTROVSKY

Abstract

A.N. Ostrovsky not only wrote plays, but also staged them on stage himself. And since he lived in Moscow, the Maly Theater naturally came into his field of vision. Ostrovsky wrote plays for actors and their benefit performances. He loved actors, although sometimes he suffered incredibly from their poorly learned roles. The names of actors are often found in the playwright’s letters and in his thoughts about the theater. In turn, the actors loved Ostrovsky not only as the author of plays, but also as a person. This is clearly seen from the memoirs of the Maly Theater actress V.P., published here for the first time. Muzil-Borozdina. These memoirs were written by the actress already at a very respectable age for those times. But time could not extinguish the sincerity of her feelings, their spontaneity. The actress writes about Ostrovsky as if he were somewhere nearby, he was alive in her memory. This emotion gives the published memories the aroma of a bygone time.