"This lavishly illustrated book is a beautifully crafted reproduction of a Russian journal [i.e. photographs collected by Nikolai Efros] from 1914 and documents, photographically, the premieres of all of Anton Chekhov's plays produced by the Moscow Art Theatre ... also reproduces - for the first time in an English translation - introductions by Stanislavsky's collaborators Nemirovich-Danchenko and Efros."