Stanislavski welcomed the February Revolution of 1917 and its overthrow of the absolute monarchy as a "miraculous liberation of Russia".Stanislavski, in a letter to Nestor Aleksandrovich Kotliarevski from , quoted by Benedetti (1999a, 245). With the October Revolution later in the year, the MAT closed for a few weeks and the First Studio was occupied by revolutionaries.Benedetti (1999a, 247). Stanislavski thought that the social upheavals presented an opportunity to realize his long-standing ambitions to establish a Russian popular theatre that would provide, as the title of an essay he prepared that year put it, "The Aesthetic Education of the Popular Masses".Benedetti (1999a, 245–248) and Magarshack (1950, 348–349).
Stanislavski welcomed the February Revolution of 1917 and its overthrow of the absolute monarchy as a "miraculous liberati,on of Russia".Stanislavski in a letter to Nestor Aleksandrovich Kotliarevski from , quoted by Benedetti (1999a, 245). With the October Revolution later in the year the MAT closed for a few weeks and the First Studio was occupied by revolutionaries.Benedetti (1999a, 247). Stanislavski thought that the social upheavals presented an opportunity to realize his long-standing ambitions to establish a Russian popular theatre that would provide, as the title of an essay he prepared that year put it, ,"The Aesthetic Education of the Popular Masses".Benedetti (1999a, 245–248) and Magarshack (1950, 348–349).