This book has been written by a pupil of Yevgeny Vakhtangov. Among other things it contains personal impressions of Vakhtangov and notes on his rehearsals. I hope they add up to a fairly complete portrait of the outstanding artist and stage director of the early Soviet theatre. Vakhtangov's treatment of plays and methods of rehearsal may prove useful to stage directors, performers and everyone else engaged in stage-craft. They have lost none of their validity. Herein lies the distinctive feature of Vakhtangov's talent and artistic foresight. And this may have been what prompted Stanislavsky to call Vakhtangov "the future leader" of the Russian theatre.