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The museum keeps a unique collection of theatre relics
of Russia. Here one may see the history of all lands and
theatre art from the beginning to recent times. Almost 1
500 000 exhibits are kept in the reserves of the museum,
those are archives of theatre personalities, portraits of
eminent actors, singers, producers, dramatists, ballet-masters,
dancers, composers, painters; costumes, personal belongings
and properties; set designs and sketches made by great masters
of scenery; posters and programmes, photographs of artists
and performances, rare books devoted to theatre art, video
and cine-documents, articles of the theatre daily life.
Alexey Alexandrovich Bakhrushin (1865-1929) who collected
all these precious treasures, was born in a merchant family.
He was a hereditary honorary citizen.
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