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[SIGNED BY STANISLAVSKY]

Item #367

Stanislavsky, Konstantin (1863-1938). Signed photo. 34x25 cm (frame), 14x10 cm (photo). Fine. Photo preserved in the contemporary leather frame, with gilt ornament.

The autograph reads: ‘‘To a gentle and expansive Nadezhda Matv. Malysheva. Trembling, agitated, suffering or joyous without any limits. Don’t waste your capital, learn to leave economically, using percents. In the art you need excerpt, even in the minutes of the highest devotions or despairs. Excerpt combined with your amazing ability to work can lead to great achievements. Heartily yours, K. Stanislavsky. 1922. 12/IX. Moscow’’.
The photo was a gift from Stanislavsky to the pianist Nadezhda Matveevna Malysheva-Vinogradova (1897-1990) who worked with him in his theatre, Moscow Art Theatre. Malysheva became well-known as an accompanist of Fyodor Chaliapin (1873-1938) before the revolution. Later she married Viktor Vinogradov (1895-1969), famous literally critic and expert on A.S. Pushkin, and wrote memoirs about her early years and her husband.

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