Nichola McAuliffe on Maurice's Jubilee: From Penge to the Moscow Art Theatre
Oleg Tabakov, the Olivier of Russia, was nine when Stalingrad fell and the Russians sent small groups of defeated German soldiers across the country to show the exhausted Russian people that Aryan Supermen didn't exist. He tells the story with no show of emotion, the same way he acts, allowing the truth to breathe. "I lived with my grandmother by the frozen Volga river. Huddled men in the remains of enemy uniforms we…