Rimas Tuminas was a Soviet, Lithuanian, and Russian theatre director, laureate of the National Prize of Lithuania for Culture and Art and the State Prize of the Russian Federation. Born in 1952 in the town of Kelmė (Lithuanian SSR), he received his education at the Lithuanian Conservatory and later graduated from the directing faculty of GITIS (under the guidance of Joseph Tumanov). He began his professional path at the Drama Theatre of the Lithuanian SSR with the production of "January" based on the play by Jordan Radichkov. His first Moscow production was "Melody for a Peacock" by Osvald Zagradnik at the Stanislavsky Theatre (1979). A significant part of the director's career was connected with the National Drama Theatre of Lithuania, where he served as chief director from 1994 to 1999. In 1990, he founded and headed the Small Drama Theatre of Vilnius. In 2007, Rimas Tuminas accepted an invitation to become the artistic director of the Vakhtangov Theatre in Moscow, leading it until 2022. During this time, he created a number of landmark productions that defined the face of modern theatre: "Uncle Vanya", "Masquerade", "The Pier", "Eugene Onegin", and "Oedipus Rex". The Bakhrushin Theatre Museum's online collection features posters, programs, and photographs of scenes from performances directed by Rimas Tuminas.