Stanislávski: um iluminista no coração de outubro

Abstract

Konstantin Sergueievitch Stanislavski (1863 – 1938) is often considers the most important theatre director of the 20th century, both in Russia and the world. Born in Moscow only two years after the abolishment of the serfs (in 1861), Stanislavski became, as the 20th century went on, the inspiring model of all Russian performing arts, having his System been elected as the standard education procedure for actors’ training in the USSR. Son of one of the wealthiest families within the Russian Empire, Stanislavski dedicates his life to theatre-craft and, paradoxically, ends his life as the most respected theatre man in a country self-labeled as a “proletarian dictatorship”. Considering his long and fruitful life in art, as well as the actual importance of his research to contemporary de-velopment in theatre, this article seeks to inquire on his direct relationship with the first years of the October Revolution (1917 – 1920), in order to try and partially understand Stanislavski’s recognition process by the Soviet Power, despite his bourgeois origins.