The Reduce to Dostoevsky’s Artistic Mastery. The Brothers Karamazov and The Devils on the Stage of the Moscow Art Theater and in the Russian Press
Journal: Dostoevsky and World Culture Philological journal
Year: 2021

The article is dedicated to the history of the Moscow Art Theater productions in 1913–1914 based on F.M. Dostoevsky’s novels The Brothers Karamazov and The Devils, and to the fierce controversy that surrounded them. It analyzes the problem of finding an adequate stage form for the two novels, and the story of the birth of the so-called “Dostoevsky theater” and the Director’s theater, now dominating the stage. Despite Dostoevsky’s great interest in theater and his brother’s witness that the futur