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Konstantin Sergeyevich Stanislavsky ( né Alexeyev ; Russian : Константи́н Серге́евич Станисла́вский ; also transliterated as Constantin Stanislavski ; 17 January [ O.S. 5 January ] 1863 – 7 August 1938) was a Russian actor and theatre director. The Stanislavsky system would inspire numerous acting teachers in America whose teachings became a dominant force in film acting, especially in the period after World War II .
Stanislavsky treated theatre-making as a serious endeavour requiring dedication, discipline and integrity. Throughout his life, he subjected his own acting to a process of rigorous artistic self-analysis and reflection. His development of a theorized praxis —in which practice is used as a mode of inquiry and theory as a catalyst for creative development—identifies him as one of the great modern theatre practitioners .
Stanislavsky's work was as important to the development of socialist realism in the Soviet Union as it was to that of psychological realism in the United States . It draws on a wide range of influences and ideas, including his study of the modernist and avant-garde developments of his time ( naturalism , symbolism and Meyerhold 's constructivism ), Russian formalism , Yoga , Pavlovian behavioural psychology , James-Lange (via Ribot ) psychophysiology and the aesthetics of Pushkin , Gogol , and Tolstoy . He