A Month in the Country (Месяц в деревне, Mesiats v derevne, 1909), written by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818-1883), directed by Konstantin Stanislavski at the Moscow Art Theatre, and opend on 22 December, 1909.

   Scenes from A Month in the Country (Месяц в деревне, Mesiats v derevne, 1909), written by the Russian playwright Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818-1883), directed by Konstantin Stanislavski at the  Moscow Art Theatre, and opend on 22 December, 1909.

   The Moscow Art Theatre production A Month in the Country was directed by Konstantin Stanislavski (who alternated the role of Rakitin with Vasili Kachalov) and Ivan Moskvin. Olga Knipper played Natalya, Nikolai Massalitinov was her husband, Islayev, and Maria Samarova was his mother, Anna. Richard Boleslavsky played Belyaev, with Lydia Koreneva as Verochka. The rest of the cast included Elena Muratova as Lizaveta, Nikolai Zvantsev as Schaaf, Ilya Uralov as Bolshintsov, Vladimir Gribunin as Shpigelsky, I. V. Lazarev as Matvei, and Lyubov Dmitrevskaya as Katya. Scenic design was by Mstislav Dobuzhinsky. This was the first production in which Stanislavski made use of his emerging 'system' of acting, much to the general distress of the actors, and Knipper in particular.

Maria Samarova in A Month in the Country, 1909, Moscow Art Theatre (MAT)

Russian postcard, no. 831. Maria Samaroba as Anna in 'A Month in the Country' 

Lydia Koreneva and Richard Boleslavsky in A Month in the Country (1909)

 Konstantin Stanislavski (left) and Olga Knipper (right)

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