"In art, it's like riding a bicycle: either you ride or you fall, you can't stand," this catch phrase of the great Moscow Art Theater artist Boris Livanov became the creative motto of his son, a wonderful actor, director Vasily Livanov. The book is dedicated to the memory of one of the most outstanding actors of the Soviet theater — Boris Nikolaevich Livanov. It contains unique materials: notes by the actor himself, letters to him by K.S. Stanislavsky and V. I. Nemirovich-Danchenko, articles by artists about Livanov.