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St Petersburg State Museum of Theatre and Music
(6 Ostrovsky Sq. Ticket-office phone 571 21 95)
The exhibition is dedicated to the outstanding director Nikolay Akimov, the head of the Comedy theatre, one of the most famous companies in USSR in 1930—1960s,. A number of Akimov's works from collections of Moscow and St Petersburg is put on display for the first time. Akimov contributed both to theatre and cinema as director and designer. His creative ideas are still actual in the contemporary theatre mixing genres, styles and epochs. Akimov's stagings and films has become the symbol of this city.
The exhibition was created in co-operation with State Russian museum, Bakhrushin State Central Theatre museum (Moscow), museums of the Comedy theatre, MHAT, BDT, Lensovet theatre, St petersburg Theatre Library, Akimov Foundation and personal archive of N. Akimov and E. Junger. Akimov's set designs and sketches of costumes, illustrations and projects are put on display. Scene models of avant guarde period such as “Armoured train 14-69” (1927) and “Break-up” (1927), and those ctreated for the most famous performances of the Comedy theatre (“The Shadow”, 1953; “The Simple Miracle”, 1956) were put together for the exhibition. Materials for «Hamlet», Akimov's first staging (1932), being one of the brightest pages in the line of Russian interpretations of Shakespeare were also chosen for the project. 40 minutes film specially created for the audience presents Akimov as script writer, artist and director: excerpts from his fairy-tale films from 1940s are well known for many a generation in this country and abroad while some of his silent films from 1920s will be shown for the first time. A slide show consisted of Akimov's photo-portraits of and his own pictures will be also demonstrated.
Akimov's portraits of his colleagues, his sketches and photos will help to re-create artistic atmosphere of his time.
Curator of the project—Alexandra Tuchinskaya
 
   
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