The Department of Memorial Objects holds more than 10 thousand units related to Russian and foreign theatrical figures. The collection was founded by Alexey Bakhrushin. The first items are dated to the late 18th — early 19th centuries. The collection “Paper — cardboard — papier-mâché” includes fans, jewelry caskets with portraits of actors, envelopes, visiting cards, props. The collection of wood presents furniture that belonged to Glikeriya Fedotova, Fyodor Chaliapin, Alisa Koonen, Alexander Tairov, Galina Ulanova, the Mironovs and Alexandr Menaker, Valentin Pluchek. There are also props and personal belongings like Glikeriya Fedotova’s snuffbox. Many of these items are kept in memorial houses and apartments that belonged to Alexander Ostrovsky, Maria Yermolova, Mikhail Shchepkin, Vsevolod Meyerhold, Galina Ulanova, and other museum branches. The metal collection has chandeliers, clocks, candlesticks, ashtrays, ironwork that belonged to theatre people. There are also wreaths of precious metals that were presented to Fyodor Chaliapin, Maria Yermolova, Vera Komissarzhevskaya, jewelry of Galina Ulanova, Maria Mironova. Many precious items that belonged to these and other great people of art you can see in our album "Treasury of Bakhrushin museum". The sculpture collection includes about a thousand sculptures made of plaster, bronze, and also metal, marble, stone, wood, and terracotta. The sculptures depict famous actors, musicians, dancers, composers, and theatre critics. Among the authors there are Paolo Troubetzkoy, Serafim Sudbinin, Yelena Yanson-Manizer, Vladimir Beklemishev, Mikhail Vrubel, Ivan Kavaleridze, David d'Angers, Léon Delagrange et al. The museum keeps self-portraits created by Alexandr Lensky, Savva Mamontov, Fyodor Chaliapin, Mikhail Fokine. The collection “Cloth, bone, leather‘” includes clothes, costumes, accessories of cloth and bone. Alexey Bakhrushin laid the foundation for the museum’s collection of prop weapons, fans, and binoculars. Of particular interest are ballet shoes of the 19th and 20th centuries. The rare gems of the collection are the ballet shoes of Maria Taglioni and Fanny Elssler. There are also the ballet shoes of Tamara Karsavina, Mathilde Kschessinska, Vaslav Nijinsky, Marius Petipa, Ekaterina Maximova, Vladimir Vasiliev, Maya Plisetskaya. Some shoes bear autographs and memorable inscriptions. The theatrical costumes refer to productions of the Imperial theatres, the Private Opera, the Musical Drama Theatre. The costumes of Fyodor Chaliapin and Maya Plisetskaya are widely presented. There are also some items that belonged to Maria Yermolova, Leonid Sobinov, Yekaterina Geltzer, Olga Lepeshinskaya, Galina Ulanova, Lyudmila Zykina, Lyudmila Gurchenko, Valentina Tolkunova et al. The porcelain collection contains wares decorated with images of theatre buildings and scenes. Some of the items belonged to Fyodor Chaliapin, Maria Yermolova, Leonid Sobinov. There are also porcelain figurines that depict famous actors – Tamara Karsavina and Michel Fokine, Anna Pavlova, Fyodor Chaliapin, Maria Yermolova, Leonid Sobinov, Maria Taglioni, Fanny Elssler, Maris Liepa, Natalia Bessmertnova, Galina Ulanova, Maya Plisetskaya. The museum also keeps commemorative medals, insignias, badges, that belonged to theatre people; plaster casts of hands and death masks of prominent Soviet actors.