Переписка главного режиссера Ивановского молодежного народного театра Р. М. Гринберг и коллектива театра с представителями творческой элиты московской интеллигенции
Correspondence between the chief director of the Ivanovo Youth People’s Theatre R. M. Grinberg and the theatre staff with representatives of the Moscow intelligentsia creative elite

Summary/Abstract: Searching, selecting and publishing archival documents that haven’t previously been put into scientific circulation is one of the most interesting and significant work that a historian-researcher can face. The purpose of this publication is to enable the reader to get acquainted with unknown documents of the epistolary genre (letters, drafts and copies of letters, telegrams), with the correspondence of the Ivanovo Youth People’s Theatre’s chief director R. M. Grinberg and her team with individual members of the Moscow intelligentsia creative elite. We selected fifteen persons who were in correspondence with R. M. Grinberg from among the most famous figures of Soviet culture of the 50—90s of the XX century. For the moment of publication more than 44 documents related to the epistolary genre have been identified in the archival collection of R. M. Grinberg, stored at Ivanovo State University. The published documents, without a doubt, represent irreplaceable and very valuable material for studying the history of the Ivanovo Youth Theatre, the biography of R. M. Grinberg. They can be perceived as a kind of narrative about the life and development of various aspects of activity and creativity as R. M. Grinberg, and the theatre in general. They allow us to reconstruct the everyday side of life and the state of mind of the authors. The subject of the letters is quite diverse: the subject of the narration includes personal life events, the history of the creation of specific performances, relationships with teachers and colleagues, and numerous requests for help. The correspondence also traces responses to the events of the socio-political and cultural life of the Soviet Union in the second half of the XX century, as well as reviews of the classics of directing and drama, and theatrical productions.

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