Stage and love. In the Kupalov Theater opened an exhibition dedicated to Irina Zhdanovich

Exhibition to the 120th anniversary of the birth of People's Artist of the BSSR Irina Zhdanovich "Iryna Zhdanovich". Zhanchyna and Szena opened at the National Academic Theater named after Y. Kupala on September 25, the correspondent of the Minsk-Novosti agency reports.

The exhibition was organized jointly with the Belarusian State Archive-Museum of Literature and Art. The exposition demonstrates different aspects of the actress’ life: career, personal and family life, teaching at the Belarusian State Theater and Art Institute (now the Belarusian State Academy of Arts).

The opening of the exhibition was accompanied by a performance of artists and musicians of the Kupalov Theatre, who recreated the creative atmosphere in which I. Zhdanovich lived.

The actress was born in 1906 in Minsk. Her father is a famous Belarusian theatrical figure, the founder of the Belarusian professional theater Florian Zhdanovich. It is not surprising that she first appeared on the stage at the age of 11, playing a boy in the play “The Scattered Princes”. A little later, her play in the role of the youngest son Danilka in the play “The Scattered Nest” was appreciated by the author of the play Yanka Kupala. He came to the play with his wife, and after it ended went backstage to express words of support for Irina.

Growing up, the girl went to Moscow to master the profession of an artist, but she was not accepted - the applicant was too young. They offered to come a little later and not even take the entrance exams, but she never returned to Moscow, continued to create on the stage Kupalovsky, who gave 42 years of life.

Especially close to her were the images of rebellious, restless, unable to compromise heroines. Her husband, Boris Platonov, I. Zhdanovich also met in Kupalovsky. How they loved each other and with what tenderness and care treated her husband, testify to the letters that are in the exhibition. Presuccess I. Zhdanovich not only as an artist, but also as a wife, mother and public figure. She was a deputy of the Supreme Council of the BSSR of the 2-4th convocation.

- To reveal those women who served on our stage, to show them from different sides is a huge work of the entire team of the Kupalov Theatre and Museum. It is important to convey this part of the story not only to the audience, but also to the residents and guests of the capital, said Alexander Shestakov, General Director of the Kupala National Academic Theatre.

Elena Makarenko, director of the Belarusian State Archives-Museum of Literature and Art, said that the institution’s fund keeps the Zhdanovich family archive, which contains about 300 documents, all of them of interest, but only some of them are included in the exposition.

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