On one summers day in 1897 Constantine Stanislavski, Sergeyevich Alexeyey and Vladimir Invanovich Nemirovich-Danchenko met at a restaurant and for eighteen hours on end and discussed the position of the drama of their day. They had never met before. One was an amateur actor, the leader of a company of other amatures which had distinguished itself by a number of carefully staged productions. The other was a successful playwright and a man of many letters, who’s devotion to the drama, led him to the management of a school of acting. At that point in time the dissatisfaction with the state of the Russian performing arts quality, which they both strongly felt passionate about, bought them together during one day in June 1897, and resulted in the foundation of the Moscow Art Theatre, which, whatever its faults or merits, has certainly fixed an epoch in the theatre history of Russia, and then after a few more meetings and discussions, a definite programme was worked out and the performers set themselves enthusiastically to the task of carrying out the foundation of the Moscow Arts Theatre