About the book: 2015 / “In art it’s like riding a bicycle: you either ride or you fall - you can’t stand,” is the catchphrase of the great Moscow Art Theater student Boris Livanov became the creative motto of his son, a wonderful actor, director Vasily Livanov. The book is dedicated to the memory of one of the most outstanding actors of the Soviet theater - Boris Nikolaevich Livanov. It contains unique materials: notes from the actor himself, letters to him from K.S. Stanislavsky and Vl. I. Nemirovich-Danchenko, articles by artists about Livanov.