Playbills from the collection of the National Museum of Archaeology and History of Moldova
Tyragetia, serie nouă, vol. VI [XXI], nr. 2, Istorie. Muzeologie
This paper is the result of a research of the collection of playbills from the National Museum of Archaeology andHistory of Moldova. The majority of playbills refers to the modern period (1941-2910) and reflects mainly the activity of national theaters, while playbills of provincial theaters are in a very small number (a few copies). It was found the total lack of playbills of 1918-1940, although it is known that in the interwar period in Bessarabia there were theaters. Depending on the form and content, the playbills were distributed by us in three categories. Playbills of the first category include the standard elements: name of the theatre, name of the play, director, producer, and composer, at times even distribution of roles, date and place of performance, the address of printing house. The second category of playbills includes complex information: together with the names of the author and the actors there are images of scenes from the performance. The third category of playbills combines the elements of the first and second categories: some of them include scenes from the performance, the others – only the names of the ac- tors and authors. The same category includes playbills with images of main actors and famous authors.
List of Illustrations: 1. Playbill. The opera “A Singer from Palermo”, libretto by B. Buchbinder. Tour of the operetta troupe of the Odessa Russian Theatre at the B. Grossman’s Theatre in Chișinău, 1897. 2. Playbill. The play “Sentimental Waltz” by O. Litovsky. The Chișinău Russian Drama Theatre, 1941. 3. Playbill. The opera “Madame Butterfly” by G. Puccini. The Moldavian Opera and Drama Theatre, 1947. 4. Playbill. The play “Much Ado About Nothing” by W. Shakespeare. The Moldavian State Academic Music and Drama Theatre named after A. S. Pushkin, 1983. 5. Playbill. The opera “La Traviata” by G. Verdi. Tour of the soloist of the National Opera of Slovakia (Bratislava) Sidonia Goleakova in Chișinău, 1984. 6. Playbill. The play “Doina” by I. Druță. Tour of the Moldavian State Academic Music and Drama Theatre named after A. S. Pushkin at the Maly Theatre in Moscow, 1985. 7. Poster. The All-Union Festival “Ion Druta and Contemporary Theater”, Chișinău, 1988. 8. Playbill. The performance “Danila Prepeleac” by I. Creangă. The “Licurici” Republican Theatre, 1985. 9. Playbill. The performance “The Story of Petrișor” by P. Cărare și Gh. Urschi. The “Licurici” Republican Theatre, 1990s. 10. Playbill. The repertoire of the Tambov Dramatic Theater named after A. Lunacharsky on tour in Chișinău, 1982. 10. Playbill. The play “The Bald Soprano” by E. Ionesco. The “Eugene Ionesco” Theatre, 1990s. 11. Playbill. The play “The Loveliest Afternoon Of the Year” by John Guare. The “Eugene Ionesco” Theatre, 1990s. 12. Playbill. The play “The Sisters-in-Law” by Michel Tremblaу. The “M. Eminescu” National Theater, 1990s. 13. Playbill. The performance “What is human life” by A. Arkanov. The “Satiricus I.L. Caragiale “ Theatre, 1990s. 14. Playbill. The opera “Madame Butterfly” by G. Puccini. The Opera and Ballet Theatre, 1990s. 15. Playbill. The performance “Field Flowers” by C. Condrea. The Rybnitsa People’s Theater, 1961. 16. Playbill. The performance “The Lazy Daughter-in-Law”. The Taraclia People’s Theatre, (undated).
The item is the lower part of a leg of a festive table made of white and gray marble. In the upper part, it has a protrusion, similar to a Doric capital, on the horizontal platform of which a square recess is engraved, designed to fix the second part of the leg (upper). The lower part of the leg is made in an anthropomorphic style, and, in our opinion, there are two variants of identifying the depicted character...
The National Museum of History of Moldova takes place among the most significant museum institutions of the Republic of Moldova, in terms of both its collection and scientific reputation.
The National Museum of History of Moldova takes place among the most significant museum institutions of the Republic of Moldova, in terms of both its collection and scientific reputation.
31 August 1989 St., 121 A, MD 2012, Chisinau, Republic of Moldova
The item is the lower part of a leg of a festive table made of white and gray marble. In the upper part, it has a protrusion, similar to a Doric capital, on the horizontal platform of which a square recess is engraved, designed to fix the second part of the leg (upper). The lower part of the leg is made in an anthropomorphic style, and, in our opinion, there are two variants of identifying the depicted character. The first involves the image of the head of the young Heracles (Heracles - Ἡρακλῆς) (beardless), the most favorite hero of antiquity, wearing on his head the skin of the Nemean lion - Λέων της Νεμέας, a vicious monster from Greek mythology who lived in Nemea and was eventually killed by Heracles. The first labor of Heracles, of the twelve set by King Eurystheus (his cousin), was to kill the Nemean lion and bring his skin to the king. It is also known from Greek mythology that the lion of Nemea took the form of a beautiful woman in order to seduce the inhabitants of neighboring villages, who wanted to save the girl from danger. Upon entering the cave, a man saw the woman, who usually pretended to be wounded, and rushed to help her. When he approached her, the woman turned into a lion and killed him. Then the lion devoured the man, giving his bones to Hades - ᾍδης, the god of Hell, who lived in the kingdom of shadows. The second version of the anthropomorphic image interpretation suggests Alexander the Great, king of Macedonia in the second half of the 4th century BC, one of the most famous heroes of the Greek world, who sometimes is depicted as Hercules - wearing a lion's skin. Some researchers consider the custom of wearing the skin of a slain lion a sign of royal power. The word βασιλεύς itself, translated from ancient Greek, means "walking the path of the lion", that is, the king. This title was held by the Greek kings from the Homeric period, and later, starting from the 7th century AD - by the Byzantine emperors.
