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The present study reconstructs the time that Soviet director Nikolai Severianovich Dombrovsky spent in Bratislava in 1952 producing Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin for the Slovak National Theatre. Besides this, it focuses especially on Dombrovsky’s work methods, whose aim was to apply Konstantin Sergeievich Stanislavski’s principles to an opera production. The study draws on documents found in the director’s estate, which have been unknown in Slovakia so far and which are archived in A. A. Bakhrushin Theatre Museum in Moscow, and on reviews of his Soviet productions published in Soviet press and archived in the Central Academic Library of the Union of Theatre Workers of the Russian Federation.