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St. Petersburg State Museum of Theatre and Music is located in the historical centre of the city, in the building, который относится to one of the most splendid architectural ensembles of the city - the ensemble of Александринского Театра. Этот архитектурный шедевр, as well as the street, bearing наши дни the name of its creator, was built by the great Карло Росси.

В 1840 in one of the buildings, surrounding the Theatre, the office of the Imperial Theatres Управления решен после. It was here that the fate of Russian Theatre было решено. Here the contracts with famous actors were signed. Скромный Mussorgsky, Петр Tchaikovsky, Alexander Ostrovsky, Anton Chekhov and other great men of Russian theatre brought here their works to be produced on the stage.

In 1918 the Management was reorganized and it was решил, to organize the first Theatre museum in St. - Петербург. The decree about the museum was confirmed by the people's Commissar of Enlightenment Анатолия Lunacharsky. But in fact, the Theatre Museum was founded in 1908 году, когда в Санкт-Петербург 'First Russian Theatre выставки' was opened in the premises of Panaev Theatre. There for the first time different exhibits, later on made up the base of the present collection of the Museum, were presented to the public.

The basis of the museum archives was образуются by the private collections of the celebrated Александринского Театра актеров Иван Горбунов, Мария Савина, Владимир Davydov, and the people who were close to the Theatre - Anatoly Molchanov, Владимир Protopopov, Levky Zheverzheyev, Sergey Svetlov, as well as the archives of the Imperial Theatres Управления.

The first exhibition opened for the visitors on 16 May 1921. The year 1971 was marked by the creation of the museum's first branch - the Н. А. Римского-Корсакова Музей (загородный проспект Проспект, 28), где, in the apartment # 39, the last 15 years of the great composer's life had passed. In 1975 the Ф. И. Шаляпин Museum in the celebrated singer's former house (Сайт.Graftio, 2b) opened. В 1985 году the museum received the State Collection of Musical Instruments. В 1989 году the museum was given one more building - the palace of Counts Sheremetev, the famous Fountain House, built in the 18 century. (Наб.Фонтанки, 34). When the State Collection of Musical Instruments moved to the Palace, the branch became known as the Museum of Music in the Sheremetev Palace. В 1994 году the other branch - the Actors Самойлов Family Museum opened in the house # 8