The issue is dedicated to the Lenin theme in the fine and theatrical arts, the production of the ballet "Spartacus" in Leningrad and the work of the clown Oleg Popov.




Newsreel of July 19, 1920: Lenin V.I. delivers a speech at a meeting of the 2nd Congress of the Comintern in the Tauride Palace in Petrograd.
The congress delegates stand up and applaud.
Paintings by artist Kibrik E.A. depicting Lenin.
Kibrik is working on his next painting in his studio.
Director of the Yaroslavl Volkov Theater T.A. Kondrashev talks with actor V.S. Nelsky, who plays Lenin in the play "Eternal Source", faces of the director and actor.
Fragments of the play "Eternal Source".
Fragments and scenes from the ballet "Spartacus" staged by the Leningrad Academic Opera and Ballet Theater named after Kirov.
Composer Khachaturian A.I., director Yakobson L.V. come out on stage at the end of the ballet, bow, and applaud the artists.
The spectators in the hall applaud.
Clown Oleg Popov rehearses another act in the Moscow Circus arena involving juggling cutlery and dishes.
Oleg Popov performs an act with a rooster sitting on his head.
Performing an act with a doll.
A doorman looks out from behind the scenes.
Spectators in their seats.
A ballerina dancing on a wire finishes her act.
Laughing spectators.
Oleg Popov performs an act on a wire during the International Circus Arts Festival in Warsaw.
Spectators laugh and applaud.
Oleg Popov's face.
Lenin Vladimir Ilyich - statesman and political figure
Kibrik Evgeny Adolfovich - artist, graphic artist
Kondrashev Tikhon Alekseevich -- theater director
Nel'skiy Valery Sergeevich - theater actor and director
Khachaturian Aram Ilyich - composer, conductor
Jacobson Leonid Veniaminovich - ballet dancer, choreographer
Popov Oleg Konstantinovich - circus artist, actor
19.07.1920, 1971
Moscow, Leningrad, Petrograd, Warsaw