Vladimir Izhevsky as the director and ballet master of children's theatrical performances in Harbin (the 1940th years)

The article discusses the activities of V.K. Izhevsky as the director and ballet master of children’s theatrical performances in Harbin (the 1940th years), where they had raised seven children’s plays: “Cinderella”, “puss in boots”, “pike”, “Aladdin and the magic lamp”, “snow white and the seven dwarfs,” “About Ivan Tsarevich and the grey wolf”, “Sleeping beauty”. Each performance was unique and was raised only once in the theater “Modern”. Izhevsky when production of the play acted not only as the director and ballet master, but also as a librettist, actor, entrepreneur. The spectators of the performances were members of the Russian emigration of the first wave, employees of the Chinese Eastern Railway and their children. The article presents previously unpublished materials from the audio recordings of the memoirs of V.K. Izhevsky.