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Bakhrushin Theater Museum got into the center of scandal

The year of the theater is in full swing, as a source of Hippokerene: the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation tirelessly creates new reasons for the scandal. In this case, in the worthy theater museum named after Bakhrushin.

The story is directly fabulous: the girl was sitting in the reception of the Minister of Culture, answered calls. This innocent function soon brought her to the favorite of the entire apparatus. Colleagues fell to such an extent and appreciated Kristina Trubinova that they decided to quickly send her to increase: "so that she could realize her ideas and ambitions." The ambitions were implemented sequentially-in the Roskontcele, the Russian Military Historical Society, the Directorate of the St. Petersburg Cultural Forum and not only. Christina came to the leading positions everywhere, but could not resist anywhere.

The museum on Poklonnaya Gora was a kind of top of an early career: from filming against the background of a swastika between guys in the form of German invaders (quest, you, veterans, do not understand!) Until the use of blockade pictures in a restaurant. Veterans could not come to terms with a creative creation. And they considered that it was in our country that to appoint a person who poses against the background of the swastika, albeit under the pretext of immersion, is wrong. So they asked Christina from the worship of the mountain.

But this story of employers from the Small Gnezdnikovsky did not convince. Here, it seems, they decided to demonstrate to the public what the real personnel noir from the Ministry of Culture in the year of the theater can be.

Christina became a magic gift of the Bakhrushin Theater Museum.

The time for the introduction of the frame was chosen unmistakably: on the eve of the termination of the Directorship Contract. Dmitry Rodionov, one of the best museum directors of the capital and the country, chose the case between the new deputy with the special powers and the fate of his field, chose the case, not yet knowing that it would be attacked.

According to the Bakhrushinites, a significant feature of the Trubinova turned out to be deep indifference to everything that, in fact, the museum is itself. She explained: the theater does not love and does not know, especially since theatrical history.

But starting in March, Kristina immediately began "the plan for the implementation of the marketing program and an increase in the social sound of the museum." To begin with, I brought fresh forms of the Turkic language to the cultural space, which is popularly called obscenities. And the very first steps in the role of the leader showed: it was no coincidence that she posed against the background of the swastika.

Over the past four months, for various reasons, the museum has resigned: the personnel department led by the boss, planning with the chief economist, part of the service of the chief engineer and himself, the head of the general department, the ITSHAN, the entire PR department. In total, forty -four people. Some left due to their own failure, others-because of the self-will of the new boss, others did not make changes in the atmosphere.

Well, all of them did not correspond to the huge tasks? If there were no stamping seals of the work book of Kristina Trubinova, this thesis would look more convincing.

For some reason, the team poorly accepted the main evidence of its effectiveness today-the sale of pies on the territory of the museum at the entrance from the garden ring to shock music. And even a clear positive - a program of volunteer support and the program of social advertising - did not reconcile with the "aliens".

“They came to us, as on scorched land, and they are only worried that they earn money,” one of the key employees of the museum told me.

However, Trubinova had just entered the magistracy of GITIS, and the examination commission will not soon forget the class of knowledge of the applicant. From the mouth to the mouth, the museum workers convey a joke (isn't it a fake?), Who gave rise to another specialist taken by her:

- In which theater does Molchalin work? - She wanted to find out from her colleagues.

And the truth - in which one?

I'm afraid the glorified Griboedov type, the one that “on tiptoe is not rich in words”, has now settled at all levels of the Ministry of Culture. Where every day they perform the famous play “Woe to the Mother”. In the local interpretation, the keywords "Well, how not to be happy about a native man?!" - Undoubtedly conceptual.

The museum’s team, who has not seen any meaningful innovations in five months, is suppressed. From the first persons to the lower level.

Some employees wrote a letter to the STD, addressing it to Alexander Kalyagin. Here are excerpts:

“... all innovation was reduced to redrawing the staffing and persecution of old employees. ... Trubinova took advantage of her special powers and seized all the vacant rates, including the guardians of the funds ... The new managers left as quickly as they came, obviously, they were not used to hearing “fool”, “idiots”, or even more interesting offers where they should go. Museum was deprived of the premium, and this with the full implementation of the plan. ”

Museum Director Dmitry Rodionov believes: it is necessary to give a person time to prove himself. The team believes: the manifested five months more than enough. "New" will monitor the development of events.

A persistent sensation arises: the Ministry of Culture will soon deserve the shock rank of the Ministry of Combat Control.

Dmitry Rodionov: "Half truth is worse than lies"

Around the Bakhrushin theater museum a scandal boils. As always, this is what generates greed public attention, but meanwhile the museum already deserves the light of the Jupiters. This year he is 125 years old. Over the past ten, he took a special place in the capital's life - from a slightly dusty academic storage turned into a living center of cultural events. Unique exhibitions and scientific conferences, festivals and master classes of the masters of directing, a Theater Book Fair, concerts. The annual award ceremony “Theater Roman” collects the color of the theater world. A portal was created, uniting all theatrical museums of the country, new funds were built, a carriage shed was reconstructed - a forum of cultural ideas. But most importantly, today for the museum there has come the stage of work of the volume and complexity that has not yet been in its history. Therefore, with the director Dmitry Rodionov, we first talk about the new tasks of Bakhrushinsky, in his conviction, partly and gave rise to the scandal.

- You have been the face of the museum for 13 years. But let's recall its founder, Alexei Bakhrushin, the first to whom it occurred to the museum that the museum could be theatrical.

- He stubbornly did a matter that no one then considered serious - recorded the life and activities of the people of the Russian theater for descendants.

He believed that any subject related to the theater is an important document or object of cultural heritage. Whether it is pointe, costume, poster, sketch, canvas, layout or diaries - he collected everything! They made fun of him.

The press wrote: Bakhrushin is ready to sell his factories for the sake of Schepkin’s suspenders!

- The revolution resolved the issue with the factories. After it, the heir to the rich Moscow merchants lost everything?

- Yes, the former millionaire instantly became no one, everything was selected except the museum. And he withstood everything, defended his business to the last and died in the year of the Great Fracture ...

After his death, the museum tried to close many times. They wanted to make the embassy, ​​then the People’s Commissariat. One of the episodes of this struggle is the letter of Stanislavsky to Stalin with a request to protect the museum. And Stalin imposed a resolution: to leave alone.

- That is, the museum was the entire twentieth century a stepson of Soviet power?

- Yes, not a stepson, worse. An incomprehensible structure, the meaning of which is doubtful.

In Soviet times, before the start of perestroika, the museum did not receive a single square meter from power, only in the eighties grew up with memorial houses - museums of Ermolova, Ostrovsky and Shchepkin.

In the 90s, the museum was headed by the wonderful director Valery Vladimirovich Gubin, who did a lot for the museum and returned part of the territories. We received an abandoned piece of land (the former Bakhrushin estate, on which a pasta factory was built in Soviet times). Then the museum received a growth point for the development of its territory.

- When did the Bakhrushinsky development program arise?

- Almost immediately after my arrival, in 2007. The architect Sergei Gnedovsky and I first developed the project of the Museum and Theater Center, dreamed of modern funds, about exhibition halls.

- The former territory of the pasta factory was a suitable platform for shooting a horror movie?

- Yes, but we got rid of the ruins, improved part of the territory, improved the life of the funds, reconstructed the carriage shed, where the floors were simply bedding to the ground, and the negative fund was on the verge of death. People got excellent jobs, and the collection - their cabinets, boxes, the right climate. In parallel, it took several years to restore all facades of the main house. Now he is almost like a famous watercolor gippius.

- How many branches do you have?

- Ten. They arose organically, often, according to the will of the theater: Museum of Meyerhold, the apartment of Maria Mironova, the Valentina Pluek Museum-apartment, the Galina Ulanova Museum, the workshop of David Borovsky. And according to the will of Zoe Chernysheva - the Radio Museum. From the city of Zaraysk, we received a gymnasium building in the center. Zaraysk is a tribal nest where the Bakhrushins came to Moscow, and we have been holding the Bakhrushin festival there for 15 years. We created a space there for the local creative intelligentsia. Ahead - repair and reconstruction of an old building. But this project will be implemented already as part of a comprehensive development plan for the Bakhrushin Museum.

- Now about the grandiose changes that are waiting for the museum. What is a museum-theater quarter?

- Over the years, we have created a platform for jumping in a new dimension. Two and a half years ago, they received another piece of land and the building of the former medical unit. Now we are located in the historical boundaries of the Bakhrushinsky estate: from Luzhnetskaya Street to Tatarskaya. The program involves a comprehensive improvement and renovation of all buildings of the main estate. In the former medical units, funds will be placed, two large exhibition halls are equipped, a structure for visitors is created - with a bookstore, space for children and a cafe, and entry for the disabled.

We will complete the restoration of the main house and remove the manuscript fund from there - all these spaces will be given to the constant exposition about the history of the Russian theater. From the origins to this day. There is an idea to create memorial rooms of outstanding figures of the theater - from Glykeria Fedotova to Anatoly Efros. On July 1, we have 1,504,646 storage items.

-Are there the timing of the creation of a museum-theater quarter?

- Three years. The program included the reconstruction and restoration of all our branches. It will be done that we could not even imagine before.

- So, the year of the theater helped to solve the problems globally?

-I defended the concept in the ministry in the presence of my colleagues, and the concept was supported. We have developed a roadmap - where we start and what we come to. If there were no fantastic backbone in the museum, it would not be possible to advance to a better life. First of all, guardians. They are wonderful specialists. And a lot of young people came. We have 298 people in the state. This figure is not so great. The ministry went to meet us in connection with the volume of future changes.

- Financing has already been determined?

- Yes, the total volume is about a billion of three hundred million, and if the development program is completed as conceived, I can safely consider my museum mission to be completed and can already engage in science and grow roses.

- Well, now about the scandal. It began with the publication in the “live magazine” of the text of your former employee, critic Ninel Ismailova, and is almost entirely dedicated to your new first Couple Kristina Trubinova and negative changes in the life of the museum that she provokes. This is true?

- Half truth is worse than lies! When I was offered the candidacy of Trubinova in the ministry, I talked to her and made a decision consciously. As the head of the museum, I am responsible for everything in this house.

- Excuse me, you would have been responsible for everything if you were responsible for your choice, but did you have an alternative? Did you deal with the result of the competition, a balanced selection of several candidates? After all, you were called and offered to "strengthen"?

-I did not have the feeling that they were being introduced to a person who is not capable of anything and that this is the burden that I should be carried out of someone else's will. I would refuse. It is useless to put pressure on me, I passed such tests in my life ...

I sometimes make decisions tough and unpleasant, but they are always argued by my vision of the future museum.

- Then how do you explain the scandal?

- The fact that today the museum is preparing for a jump, for a completely different scale of activity and development. And the requirements for the staff increase sharply, the volume of affairs, tasks and professional competence changes. A quiet museum life in the distant past.

With Christina Dmitrievna, we agreed to reformat the managerial model. The staffing is not a dogma, but a tool. Today, some departments are important, tomorrow others.

- And the pies that are sold in the territory?

“But for me a mystery, which so excited people.” The reaction to the openness of the museum is amazing. We did this in the year before last. This is beneficial for the museum, comfortable for visitors and even for employees.

- If tomorrow Ivan Ivanovich came to the place of Vladimir Rostislavovich and told you - do what you want, fire all incompetent, illiterate, lazy, would you save the first deputy?

- While “Ivan Ivanovich” comes, time will pass! And life itself always shows what a person is suitable for, is it capable of developing ... I have not been in a hurry with the conclusions before the year of work with someone. Young people come to us after the institute, the education is impeccable, but they do not know anything about the theater ...

- So, after all, Trubinov is the same case! What is the first Zuma job instruction?

- The jurisdiction of Kristina Dmitrievna Marketing Department, publishing sector, sales sector, public relations department, economic department.

- And in almost all these units there was a personnel revolution. And those who resigned “on their own” are now writing to the prosecutor's office.

- Not in all. For me, this form of appeal suggests that people are not sure of their argument: if a person is not afraid to express what he thinks and can protect his professional position, he does it. He expresses his complaints in the eyes. No one canceled this freedom.

Over the years of leadership, I constantly encounter people who believe that everyone around is wrong, and the director is a villain, thief and rogue, the country is falling apart, and how to live a simple honest person?! This populist demagogy is very convenient today. Adults allow themselves to peremptorly execute, mercy, hang labels - and raise a scream for the whole world.

“Your opponents believe that you do not dare to raise your vote against the minister, and they will now tell you the truth and protect their director!”

- In this situation, it is not my person who is worried about, but the damage, which the supposedly fans of Bakhrushin inflicted on the museum.

- The first deputy came with the thought that everything is Naftalin and dust here? But what are the transformations in the theater museum, if you do not know who Stanislavsky is?

- Of course, she is neophyte. But this is not a diagnosis. The claims that are presented are formulated negatively and one -sidedly. For me, this is a criterion of bias. Until I talk with a person, I do not eat a pinch of salt ...

- There are people with whom salt should not eat ...

- Happens. But I give my students an example of a psychological property on the first day of classes. On the first day when the window is broken, everyone sees it. A week later, several people. A month later, no one sees. The ability of the leader to see this window determines a lot. And each person has his own window in any place. When people work in one place for a very long time, they stop seeing broken windows and often very unsightly views.