Alexander Fedotov was a Russian actor, a director at the Maly Theatre, and a teacher. He was born in Moscow into the family of the actor and director Alexander Fedotov and the outstanding Russian actress, Honored Artist of the Imperial Theatres, Glikeriya Fedotova. He studied at Polivanov’s gymnasium and at the Faculty of History and Philology of Moscow University. While studying, he took part in performances of the “Shakespeare Circle” under the direction of Lev Polivanov and Sergei Yuryev. He performed in productions of the Society of Art and Literature. Alexander Fedotov worked briefly as a secretary in the Moscow provincial administration, and also for the prosecutor Nikolai Muravyov, but he left that career and joined the company of the Moscow Maly Theatre. He made his debut in the role of Andrey Belugin (“Belugin’s Marriage” by Alexander Ostrovsky and Nikolay Solovyov). Among his other roles were Milonov (“The Forest” by Alexander Ostrovsky), Nikita (“The Power of Darkness” by Lev Tolstoy), and Repetilov (“Woe from Wit” by Alexander Griboyedov). From 1900, Alexander Fedotov was appointed director. At the Maly Theatre he staged such productions as “A Heart Is Not a Stone” by A. N. Ostrovsky (1902), “Female Logic” (Miss Hobbs) by Jerome Klapka Jerome (1902), “There Was Not a Penny, but Suddenly an Altyn” by Alexander Ostrovsky (1903), “Youth” by Max Dreyer (1906), “The Struggle for the Throne” by Henrik Ibsen (1906), and others. Alexander Fedotov also taught at the Music and Drama School of the Moscow Philharmonic Society and at the Drama Courses of the Moscow Theatre School. The collection of the Bakhrushin Theatre Museum contains photographs of the actor both from his life and in roles, as well as a large number of personal letters and other materials related to the life and work of Alexander Fedotov.