Liubov Gurevich

"[2] From 1894 to 1917 she was the publisher and chief editor of the monthly journal The Northern Herald (Severny Vestnik), a leading Russian symbolist publication based in Saint Petersburg.

[3] The journal acted as a rallying-point for the Symbolists Dmitry Merezhkovsky, Zinaida Gippius, Fyodor Sologub, Nikolai Minsky, and Akim Volynsky.

[5] In 1905, Gurevitch joined the Moscow Art Theatre (MAT) as a literary advisor.

[6] She worked as an advisor and editor for the seminal Russian theatre practitioner Konstantin Stanislavski for the next 30 years and influenced his writing more than anyone else.

[7] Gurevich and Stanislavski had been writing to one another since the MAT's first tour to St Petersburg and became close friends.