Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation Olga Lyubimova visited the Kazan Academic Russian Bolshoi Drama Theater named after V.I. Kachalov
Russian Minister of Culture Olga Lyubimova arrived in Kazan today. Immediately from the airport, she went to the Kazan Academic Russian Bolshoi Drama Theater named after Vasily Kachalov. Since 1948, the theater has been named after her great-grandfather - People's Artist of the USSR, who began his career in the Kazan theater.
Artistic director - theater director Alexander Slavutsky gave a tour of the theater. Olga Borisovna visited rehearsal room, craft shop, ballet class of the theater. The Theater Museum aroused particular interest. The minister walked around two museum floors, was interested in exhibits related to the history of the theater and her great-grandfather.
A photo album reminiscent of the long-standing friendship between the theater and her family became a gift to the Minister of Culture. In 2005, the granddaughter of Vasily Ivanovich Kachalov, Maria Shverubovich, came to the opening of the world's only monument to Kachalov, together with her husband, a theater expert, rector of the Shchepkinsky School, Boris Lyubimov.
At the end of tour of the theater, Olga Lyubimova laid flowers at the monument to her great-grandfather.