Excerpt from Tsar Fyodor Ivanovitch: A Play in Five ActsThe task of restoring to life this pageant of a pictur esque and bygone age has been still iurther perfected by the Moscow Art Theatre's mastery of makeup and psychological realism. With this play, the theatre opened its first season a quarter of a century ago. In its reper tory it has remained ever since. Through it, America first becomes acquainted with the work of this astonishing organization. Russia's vivid past breathes once more through the necromancy of her contemporary artists.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.