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Last update of repository: 17 March 2020

Gosudarstvennyi tsentral'nyi teatral'nyi muzei im. A.A. Bakhrushina (GTsTM)


Otdel fondov detskikh i kukol'nykh teatrov
[Dividion of Fonds of Children's and Puppet Theaters]

Telephone: +7 495 690-42-89

Website: http://www.gctm.ru/collection/otdel-f...  (Rus); http://www.gctm.ru/en/collection/chil...  (Eng)

Head: Lidiia Stepanovna Omel'chenko (tel. +7 495 690-42-89)


Holdings

The Division consists of four collections relating to history and development of children’s theaters: (1) decorative pictorial materials (fond dekoratsionno-izobrazitel'nykh materialov); (2) memorial clothing (memorial'no-veshchevoi fond ); (3) photographic, film, and audio documents (fond foto-kino-fonodokumentov); (4) written sources (fond pis'mennykh istochnikov).
        The manuscript holdings contain documentation on the history of children’s theaters, including the Young Audience Theaters (Teatry iunogo zritelia—TIuZ), from throughout the Russian Federation and former USSR. The holdings include materials from leading repertory companies in the former USSR, such as the Erevan Tumanian State Puppet Theater (Erevanskii gosudarstvennyi teatr kukol im. Tumaniana), the Leningrad, Moscow, Saratov and Novosibirsk Young Audience Theaters, the State Youth Theater of the Lithuanian SSR (Gosudarstvennyi teatr molodezhi Litovskoi SSR), and the State Young Audience Theater of the Latvian SSR. Of particular note are the archival materials (documents, photographs, and sketches) from the first Young Audience Theater in Ukraine.
        There are manuscript and typed copies of plays performed at children’s theaters; preparatory materials for productions; scripts and promptbooks of directors, and actors; drafts, plans, and drawings by artists and stage designers; and manuscript music scores.
        The documentary fond contains the collection of personal papers of N.I. Sats, the director and founder of the Central Children’s Theater, and of theater performers including V.A. Sperantova, K.P. Koreneva, Z.A. Sazhin among others.
        The fonds contain photographs and negatives of the various actors and actresses, directors and designers, and pictures of scenes from puppet theater productions from 1920s to present.


History:
The Division of Fonds of Children’s and Puppet Theaters was established in January 2008 with materials transferred to the Bakhrushin Museum from the former State Museum of Children’s Theaters, which was abolished in 2003. The Museum of Children’s Theaters was founded in 1981 as a cultural, educational and research institution, and as a repository for memorabilia, works of art, and archival documents on the history of children’s theater in Russia and the republics of the former Soviet Union.


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