The Living Corpse
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The Living Corpse (Russian: Живой труп, Zhivoy trup) is a play by Leo Tolstoy.
Also known as The Live Corpse or alternatively as Buried Alive in English.
The Living Corpse was written in 1900, but only had its première at the Moscow Art Theatre on 5 October 1911, directed by Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, with Konstantin Stanislavski as co-director, and featuring Stanislavsky. The text was published in 1911.
