Veniamin Zuskin was a Jewish theatre and film actor, director, and educator. He was a People's Artist of the RSFSR and a laureate of the Stalin Prize, second degree. He was born into a large family in the Lithuanian city of Panevėžys (Ponevezh). He studied at a cheder and later entered a real school (non-classical secondary school). Due to the deportation of Jews from the Baltic region, he ended up in Penza. He first studied at the Sverdlovsk Mining Institute and then at the Moscow Mining Academy. In 1921, he was initially admitted to the studio of the Jewish Chamber Theatre and soon joined its main acting troupe. Together with Solomon Mikhoels, he took part in the production of “Sholem Aleichem Evening”. He performed in numerous stage productions, such as “The Witch”, “The Travels of Benjamin III”, “King Lear”, “Freylekhs”, and others. He also worked as a film actor, appearing in “A Man from the Shtetl”, “Seekers of Happiness”, and other motion pictures. Additionally, he taught at the theatrical school under GOSET (the Moscow State Jewish Theatre) and worked as a director, staging productions such as “The Eve of the Holiday” and “Hershel of Ostropol”. Following the death of Solomon Mikhoels, he briefly served as the head of the theatre. In 1952, he was sentenced to death and executed in connection with the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee case. Archival materials, costume designs, photographs of Veniamin Zuskin, and other museum objects related to his life and artistic career are held in the collection of the Bakhrushin Theatre Museum.