The Moscow Art Theater Museum will present an exhibition project in Khabarovsk for the first time.

On December 23, the Khabarovsk Krai Museum named after N.I. Grodekov will host the opening of the exhibition "In Search of the Blue Bird. The line of fiction in the Moscow Art Theater". The exhibition project was created by the Moscow Art Theater Museum with the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation.

In the history of the Moscow Art Theater, the play "The Blue Bird" occupies a special place. Several generations of the past and present centuries have grown up on this play. 

K.S. Stanislavsky, conceiving the production of "The Bluebird", said that it should be made with the purity of a ten-year-old child's imagination. "It should be naive, simple, light, cheerful, cheerful and ghostly, like a child's dream" - this is how Konstantin Sergeyevich Stanislavsky envisioned his magical performance.

"For the Moscow Art Theater Museum, this is already the second project in the Far East. Earlier, the exhibition "In Search of the Blue Bird. Line of Fiction at the Moscow Art Theatre" was successfully held in the city of Blagoveshchensk and Komsomolsk-on-Amur. We hope that our Blue Bird will bring happiness to everyone who will visit the exhibition", - invited the residents of Khabarovsk Director of the Museum of the Moscow Art Theatre Pavel Vashchilin.

The exhibition space will be divided into two semantic zones - a magical forest-colonnade and a theater workshop. In the first hall, visitors will follow the path of the two main characters of the play, Tiltil and Mitil, to find the symbol of happiness - the Blue Bird. In the center, a house will be lit up like a lighthouse from where the fantastic journey will begin. The exhibition will include memories of the legendary Mkhatov play: black-and-white photographs of the MHT actors as fairy-tale characters, sketches by Vladimir Egorov and a model by Viktor Simov, correspondence between Konstantin Stanislavsky and Maurice Maeterlinck, a director's copy of the play that belonged to Leopold Sulerzhitsky, and a score by composer Ilya Satz. 

In the second space of the exhibition visitors will find themselves in a theater workshop similar to the one invented by K.S. Stanislavsky himself. In his apartment there was an improvised theatrical laboratory, where he periodically invited all those interested in staging. Here everyone could come up with what he wanted - costumes, set elements, sketches... The Moscow Art Theatre Museum invites everyone to plunge into this magical process, to be an inventor of the theater, to follow in the footsteps of the famous Mkhatovites and to draw their own line of fiction. 

The exhibition will be opened on December 23 at 17:00 in the Khabarovsk Krai Museum named after N.I. Grodekov at the address: Khabarovsk Krai, Khabarovsk, Shevchenko St., 11. 

You can visit the exhibition until February 9, 2025. 

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