About the book: 2005 / Tatyana Lvovna Shchepkina-Kupernik, great-granddaughter of the great Russian actor Mikhail Shchepkin and daughter of a prominent Kyiv lawyer Lev Kupernik, with In her early years she was associated with the Moscow artistic environment, was friends with A. P. Chekhov, M. N. Ermolova. A writer, author of poetry collections, plays, short stories and novellas, Shchepkina-Kupernik is known primarily for her classic translations of the dramaturgy of E. Rostand. , W. Shakespeare, Lope de Vega, Moliere, C. Goldoni, R.B. Sheridan. The picture of the literary and theatrical life of Moscow at the end of the 19th - first quarter of the 20th century is vividly captured in her memoirs “Days of My Life” (1928) and "Theater in my life» (1948).