ABSTRACT
Evacuation did not interrupt the curriculum for such students. The “Shchepkin” School, attached to the Maly, accompanied its mother-organism to the Urals in 1941, and next spring twenty young actors were launched on their professional careers, one in particular being the envy of the rest, Konstantin Nazarov, who was given a good part in the Maly production of The Front. When the Moscow State Jewish Theatre was evacuated to Tashkent, some of the senior pupils were taken into the company, but others went to the theatre in the Jewish Autonomous Republic of Biro-Bijan in the Far East. The future of the national theatres was carefully nursed in this way by those looking after cultural matters from the administrational angle. In peace-time children’s theatres served audiences in particular localities, apart from summer tours. The children of another district in the same town, if they could not get to the premises easily, had the theatre brought to them.
