Summary of the book "Sad Book" Pilyavskaya S.: "What you see, write, and what you don't see, you shouldn't write." Sofia Stanislavovna Pilyavskaya did not accidentally choose these words from Mikhail Bulgakov's "Theatrical Novel" as an epigraph for her "Sad Book". Why sad? Because she could not be any other: Pilyavskaya was born in 1911 and lived until 2000. Her fate contained the whole terrible twentieth century, which did not spare her, beat her backhand: my father's arrest in 1937, the war, the loss of loved ones. But there was so much dignity, nobility, so much wisdom and fortitude in this woman that the wolfhound failed to break her.Pilyavskaya really wrote only about what she saw. And she saw many things and many people. Elena Sergeevna Bulgakova, Olga Leonardovna Knipper-Chekhov, Ivan Mikhailovich Moskvin and many others will appear before you as living people. Pilyavskaya will tell how Ivan Moskvin saved the theater troupe that found itself in Minsk on the eve of the occupation, how the Moscow Art Theater workers stole the repressed Nikolai Erdman from the carriage with convicts, how she washed Anton Pavlovich's death shirt at the request of Knipper-Chekhov, how after the arrest of her father Stanislavsky did not allow her to be fired from the theater, where she served until the end of her life, having played many roles.This book is sad, but not hopeless. Because it's about people who had creativity, which means they knew what they were living for. Read more…