The bright future director received “triples” in most subjects
The owner of the archive is a private collector, who at one time bought things from Stanislavsky’s daughter, Kira Konstantinovna Alekseeva-Falk.
But something else is interesting. Among the things up for auction is a school graduation certificate with a gold medal for Stanislavsky’s future wife, Maria Petrovna Perevoshchikova (maiden name Lilina). She was a student at the Saint Catherine’s School in Moscow and graduated in 1883 with a gold medal. She has always been an excellent student. Unlike her husband. Konstantin Sergeevich has always been a notorious triplet.
From the surviving educational records, reflecting the “successes” of a student of the 6th and 5th grades of the Lazarev Institute, Konstantin Alekseev (Stanislavsky), it is clear that the future brilliant director received “triples” in most subjects. He especially was not given the humanities. He knew the languages Latin, Greek, German poorly … But the most amazing and stable “3” was in Russian. He wrote with errors. The average grade for the quarter is 3.5 points.
But who would remember the excellent student Lilina today, if not the wife of the C-grade student Stanislavsky, whom the whole world knows. Which confirms the common truth: in life, C students are much more successful than honor students.
