Roman Viktyuk was a Russian and Ukrainian theatre director, actor, and teacher. He was born on October 28, 1936, in Lviv, into a family of teachers. In 1956, he graduated from GITIS (the workshop of Maria and Vasily Orlov, among his teachers were Yuri Zavadsky and Anatoly Efros). While still young, he staged performances at a theatre studio in Lviv. After graduating, he worked as an actor and director at the Lviv Theatre for Young Spectators, and later staged productions in theatres in various cities, including Kalinin (Tver), Vilnius, Tallinn, Minsk, Kyiv, and Moscow. In the 1970s–1980s, he collaborated with Moscow theatres, including the Mossovet Theatre and the Moscow Art Theatre. He gained wide recognition after directing “The Maids” by Jean Genet at the Satirikon Theatre in 1988. In 1991, he founded his own theatre in Moscow, later known as the Roman Viktyuk Theatre. He also directed television productions and taught at GITIS. The Bakhrushin Theatre Museum collection preserves photographs, recordings of his productions, posters, and other materials related to his life and work.