Liubov Yakovlevna Gurevich (; November 1, 1866,

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, and

Akim Volynsky Akim Lvovich Volynsky (Аким Львович Волынский, real name Khaim Leybovich Flekser, Хаим Лейбович Флексер; 3 May 1861 – 6 July 1926) was a Russian literary (later theatre and ballet) critic and historian, o ...

. Gurevitch was of mixed social background. Her mother hailed from Russian nobility but her father was a Jewish convert to Russian Orthodoxy. In 1905, Gurevitch joined the

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(MAT) as a literary advisor. She worked as an advisor and editor for the seminal Russian theatre practitioner

Konstantin Stanislavski Konstantin Sergeyevich Stanislavski ( rus, Константин Сергеевич Станиславский, p=kənstɐnʲˈtʲin sʲɪrˈɡʲejɪvʲɪtɕ stənʲɪˈslafskʲɪj, links=yes; ; 7 August 1938) was a seminal Russian and Sovie ...

for the next 30 years and influenced his writing more than anyone else. Gurevich and Stanislavski had been writing to one another since the MAT's first tour to St Petersburg and became close friends.Benedetti (1999, 154) and Magarshack (1950, 4).

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* Benedetti, Jean. 1999. ''Stanislavski: His Life and Art''. Revised edition. Original edition published in 1988. London: Methuen. . * Carnicke, Sharon M. 1998. ''Stanislavsky in Focus''. Russian Theatre Archive Ser. London: Harwood Academic Publishers. . * Magarshack, David. 1950. ''Stanislavsky: A Life.'' London and Boston: Faber, 1986. . * Pyman, Avril. 1994. ''A History of Russian Symbolism.'' Cambridge Studies in Russian Literature ser. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge UP. . * Rabinowitz, Stanley J. 1998. "No Room of Her Own: The Early Life and Career of Liubov' Gurevich." ''The Russian Review'' 57 (April): 236-252. * Slonim, Marc. 1962. ''From Chekhov to the Revolution: Russian Literature 1900-1917.'' Galaxy Book ed. New York: Oxford UP. . Rpt. of first ten chapters of ''Modern Russian Literature: From Chekhov to the Present''. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1953. {{DEFAULTSORT:Gurevich, Liubov Yakovlevna 1866 births 1940 deaths Moscow Art Theatre Literary critics from the Russian Empire Translators from the Russian Empire Soviet writers People from the Russian Empire of Jewish descent Journalists from the Russian Empire Writers from Saint Petersburg