The memoirs of the leading Soviet-era actor Nikolai Cherkasov, best-known for his roles in several Eisenstein films in the 1930s and 1940s. This is the first English edition of the book, published in 1961 by the Foreign Languages Publishing House in Moscow. Features numerous B&W photographs, plus decorative contents pages. Original unclipped jacket, showing Cherkasov’s face. In good condition, some wear to extremities of jacket. Neat previous owner’s contemporary inscription dated 1961.