The creative biography of Vladimir Recepter has been associated for many years with the BDT and its creator G.A. Tovstonogov. This book is about the theater, about actors whose names (I. Smoktunovsky, O. Borisov, S. Yursky, O. Basilashvili, P. Luspekaev) cause both reverence and keen interest: what are they, idols? What's going on behind the scenes? Successes and failures, ambitions and suspicions, passions and intrigues - everything is like in life, but only more capaciously and convex, because this is the Theater.