Kozakov, Mikhail Mikhailovich (1934 - 2012) Arkhangel´skii, Iu. V., editor.	Akterskaia kniga. (Moi 20 vek [Series]), M., Vagrius 1996., 428, 32 b/w plates. Publisher´s binding, GOOD, FIRST EDITION	€25,00

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Ex-library copy, with library and cancellation library stamps, waterstained from title page till page 9. Good working copy. Memoirs by a famous Soviet film star, born of Jewish father, a prominent Soviet writer Mikhail Emmanuilovich Kozakov, and Russian mother, Zoia Aleksandrovna Nikitina. He became a film star and idol already after his first film, 'Ubiistvo na ulitse Dante'. Mikhail Kozakov left Russia for Israel in 1991 where he became one of the most famous 'Russians' in the Israeli artistic and Bohemian circles.He was able to re-start his theatre career again before he returned to Russia in 2000s and became, this time, a TV star. Valuable memoirs for the studies of Russian artistic émigré community in Israel in the years of 'Great Aliya' of 1990s. One of the few books by a great Russian Soviet author published without censoral excisions. The book was finished in Tel Aviv in 1995 and published by one of the first independent publishing houses in Moscow in the series 'Moi dvadtsatyi vek'.