Pyotr Mikhaylovich Yershov

For the 19th century Russian writer, the author of The Humpbacked Horse, see Pyotr Pavlovich Yershov.

Pyotr Mikhaylovich Yershov (Russian: Пётр Миха́йлович Ершо́в, 1910–1994) was a Soviet theater director and art theoretician, most famous for his textbooks on directing and works on Stanislavski's system.

He wrote Directing as a Practical Psychology, with forewords by Oleg Yefremov and P.V. Simonov, 1972, and Technology of an Actor in 1959, that is often recommended course material in Russian and American theater schools.

External links

• (in Russian) Biography and photos
• (in Russian) Full bibliography of Pyotr Mikhailovich Yershov's works