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The First Studio of the Moscow Art Theatre (MAT) was a theatre studio that the seminal Russian theatre practitioner Constantin Stanislavski created in 1912 in order to research and develop his 'system' of actor training.[1] Its founding members included Yevgeny Vakhtangov, Michael Chekhov, Richard Boleslavsky, and Maria Ouspenskaya, all of whom would exert a considerable influence on the subsequent history of theatre.[2] Leopold Sulerzhitsky, who had been Stanislavski's personal assistant since 1905 and whom Maxim Gorky had nicknamed "Suler", was selected to lead the studio.[3] In a focused, intense atmosphere, its work emphasised experimentation, improvisation, and self-discovery.[4] Until his death in 1916, Suler taught the elements of Stanislavski's 'system' in its germinal form: relaxation, concentration of attention, imagination, communication, and emotion memory.[5] On becoming independent from the MAT in 1923, the company re-named itself the Second Moscow Art Theatre, though Stanislavski came to regard it as a betrayal of his principles.[6] Chekhov led the company between 1924 and 1928.[7] A decision by the People's Commissars and the Central Committee of the Communist Party closed the theatre in 1936, to the bewilderment of its members.[8]
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