RUSSIA 2013 - The 150th birth anniversary of K.S. Stanislavskiy (1863-1938), theatre director, actor, teacher

 

Konstantin Sergeevich Stanislavskiy (Alexeev) began his actor experience in 1877, he joined a 
theatrical group organized by his family. In 1886 he was elected as a member of the 
directorate and the treasurer of the Moscow branch of the Russian Musical Society and 
composed during his conservatory. With singer and teacher F. Komissarzhevskiy and artist 
F.Sollogub Stanislavsky establish the Moscow Society of Art and Literature (MSAL), giving his 
personal finances. In 1898, He founded the Moscow Art Theatre with Nemirovich-Danchenko. 
Since the 1990s, Stanislavski worked on the Method of Physical Actions. In 1917, he was an 
honorary academician of the Petersburg Academy of Sciences, in 1918 he headed the Opera 
Studio of the Bolshoi Theatre (later the Musical Theater of Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-
Danchenko). In 1935 he founded the Opera and Drama Studio. In 1936 he received the title of 
People's Artist of the USSR.