Аmateur theatricals in the Russian province in the late XIX - early XX c. (on the example of the Lower Volga region)

The effort to research the most important part of the Lower Volga region culture on the boundary of XIX and XX centuries - everyday folk-art culture and its interaction with professional artistic creation, first of all, in the sphere of theatre art - was undertaken taken. The factor of the cultural experience transmission and social memory conservation was established.