EN
The leading theme of the author’s considerations is the motif of death found in the biography of Stanislavski’s and its role in the process of rearing of the actor. In the text a range of acting exercises based on students’ emotional memory have been named. Students’ autobiographical memories and testimony of death bequeathed on the cards of world literature play a key role in acting tasks. In the final part of the article the author mentions the etude about death prepared by the students of the Acting Studio named after Aleksander Sewruk of the Stefan Jaracz State Theatre in Olsztyn.