Theatre Front Roads

April - July 2025

The exhibition is timed to the 80th anniversary of the Great Victory and is dedicated to the feat of theatre artists who gave performances on the frontlines of the Great Patriotic War, thus maintaining the spirit of the Soviet soldiers. The exhibition features items from the collection of the Bakhrushin Museum. These are photographs depicting tough everyday life of frontline theatres and theatre brigades. There are also many archive documents: newspaper clippings, creative reports, letters of thanks from soldiers to artists,playbills and sketches of scenery. The diary of the legendary “Iskra” frontline theatre occupies a special place in the exhibition. The creation of a universal form of the document called “The Diary of a Frontline Theatre” was initiated by the staff of the Bakhrushin Museum at the beginning of the war, a document in which it was supposed to record all the activities of a frontline theater or brigade in order to preserve this information. The exhibition lasts from April to July 2025 at the Mikhail Shchepkin House-Museum in Moscow, at the Theatre Museum in Zaraysk and at the Art Museum named after Joseph Brodsky in Berdyansk.