Anatoly Efros was a renowned theatre and film director, pedagogue, and theorist of theatre and cinema. He was born in 1925 in Kharkiv. In 1943, he entered Yuri Zavadsky's acting studio at the Mossovet Theatre. In 1950, he graduated from the directing faculty of GITIS (Russian Institute of Theatre Arts). Anatoly Efros made his first independent production, "Prague Remains Mine", at the Central House of Culture of Railway Workers in 1951. That same year, he debuted on the professional stage with "Come to Zvonkovoye" at the Moscow Regional Drama Theatre named after Alexander Ostrovsky. From 1951 to 1953, the director worked at the Ryazan Drama Theatre. In 1954, he moved to the Central Children's Theatre, where, together with Maria Knebel, he transformed it into one of the most popular theatres in the capital. Between 1963 and 1967, Anatoly Efros headed the Lenin's Komsomol Theatre. There, alongside works of modern drama (by Viktor Rozov, Alexey Arbuzov, and Edward Radzinsky), he staged Anton Chekhov's "The Seagull" and Mikhail Bulgakov's "Molière". The most fruitful stage of the director's career was his work at the Moscow Drama Theatre on Malaya Bronnaya (1967–1984). It was here that he staged a series of performances that became classics of Soviet theatre, including Anton Chekhov's "Three Sisters", William Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" and "Othello", Ivan Turgenev's "A Month in the Country", Nikolai Gogol's "Marriage", and Jean-Baptiste Molière's "Don Juan". From 1984 until the end of his life, Anatoly Efros headed the Taganka Theatre. His final performance as a director was Molière's "The Misanthrope" (1986). The online collection of the Bakhrushin Theatre Museum features photographs, sketches, posters, and programs related to Anatoly Efros's performances at the Central Children's Theatre, Lenin's Komsomol Theatre, the Theatre on Malaya Bronnaya, and other venues.