Valery Fokin is a theatre and film director, actor, and theatre pedagogue, People's Artist of the Russian Federation. Born in 1946 in Moscow, he graduated from the Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute in 1971. He began his directing career at the Moscow Sovremennik Theatre, where from 1971 to 1985 he staged a number of landmark productions, including "Valentin and Valentina", by Mikhail Roshchin, "Provincial Anecdotes" by Alexander Vampilov, and "The Government Inspector" by Nikolai Gogol. From 1985 to 1991, Valery Fokin headed the Moscow Ermolova Drama Theatre. In 1991, he became the artistic director and general director of the Meyerhold Creative Centre, where he directed such works as "Room in a Town N" based on Nikolai Gogol's poem "Dead Souls", and "The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka. From 2003 to 2024, Valery Fokin served as the artistic director of the Alexandrinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg, and since 2024, he has been its president. On this stage, he created large-scale productions, including "The Government Inspector" by Nikolai Gogol, "The Double" by Fyodor Dostoevsky, "The Living Corpse" by Leo Tolstoy, and "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare. The Bakhrushin Theatre Museum's online collection features sketches and models for Valery Fokin's performances at the Sovremennik Theatre, along with playbills, archival documents, and other materials.