• Heirs and Heritage: The Maly Theatre in the Materials of the Theatre Digest of 1944 and Theatre Journal of 1945–1946

УДК: 070:792.2(=161.1)"1944/1946"

DOI: 10.35852/2588-0144-2025-1-54-72

EDN: INTJTY

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Tatyana A. Krylova

Literary editor of GITIS’s Publishing House, a master’s student at the Russian State University for the Humanities.
Russian Institute of Theatre Arts (GITIS)
Moscow, Russia

Heirs and Heritage: The Maly Theatre in the Materials of the Theatre Digest of 1944 and Theatre Journal of 1945–1946

Abstract

The article is based on the reviewing the materials from archival issues of the Theatre journal in the early post-war period (the second half of 1945–the first half of 1946). It aims in clearly showing that this historical period, this period of publication's work, deserves a separate detailed study. The research also focuses on the “deputy” of the Theatre journal during the Great Patriotic War, a collection of articles and materials of the same name (1944), which in 1943 was conceived by the scientific and creative department of the Russian Theatrical Society as a periodical. The article contains excerpts from the transcript of the meeting to discuss this digest in 1944, from the funds of the Russian State Archive of Literature and Art. The features of the discussions about the theatre directions are considered in the context of historical events and using the example of materials about the Maly Theatre. During this period, on the pages of the printed media, as well as in the transcripts of meetings devoted to discussing their work, the changes that were emerging in the public consciousness were recorded. The authors' statements about pressing issues (related to the state plan and other consequences of the centralization of the 1930s) often seemed rather critical. In this case, it proves the confusion of theatre practitioners, which can be traced in their polemics. ThusN. V. Petrov in his article Heirs and Heritage (1944) begins a conversation about current problems: a small number of productions (the same as in the cinema sphere), the absence of new roles for leading actors, the substitution of directing for pedagogy, etc. Theatre figures try to “sort out” (or report) on these issues in post-war publications; the Maly Theatre also “held the answer”. The polemics allows to trace the tendencies of general theatre processes in 1944–1946.

Keywords

Theatre journal, Soviet theatre, theatre during the Great Patriotic War, Maly Theatre, Russian Theatrical Society, N. V. Petrov, P. M. Sadovsky (junior).

For citation

Krylova T. A. Heirs and Heritage: The Maly Theatre in the Materials of the Theatre Digest of 1944 and Theatre Journal of 1945–1946. Theatre. Fine Arts. Cinema. Music. 2025, no. 1, pp. 54–72.

DOI: 10.35852/2588-0144-2025-1-54-72

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Received: 12.12.2024

Revised: 27.01.2025

Accepted: 12.02.2025