ABSTRACT
People should always come to the theatre to be entertained but once there, with the doors closed behind them, the lights lowered, we can pour into them anything wish. The Moscow Art Theatre rediscovered the means of establishing that relationship. It may well be that it does remain impossible in the Bolshoi Theatre-there are limits in all things remember that when we were abroad we played in a Wiesbaden theatre was really only slightly smaller than the Bolshoi, and that only goes to prove that our kind of art can be conveyed also to a very large crowd of people. Chaliapine and other great artists and ending with that of Saburov, the Hermitage Variety Theatre and anything else go under the name of theatre. The author well remembers what Leo Tolstoy, whom met for the first time at Nikolai Davydov's, said on this subject: 'The theatre is the most powerful pulpit of our times'.