Pyotr Mikhaylovich Yershov

Pyotr Mikhaylovich Yershov (Пётр Миха&#769;йлович Ершо&#769;в, 1910–1994) was a Soviet theater director and art theoretician, most famous for his textbooks on directing and works on Stanislavski's system.

He wrote Directing as a Practical Psychology, with forewords by Oleg Yefremov and P.V. Simonov, 1972, and Technology of an Actor in 1959, that is often recommended course material in Russian and American theater schools.