The Memorial Museum in honour of Maria Zankovetskaya was founded in order to keep in mind of descendants a great name of an actress. The history of the museum is quite interesting and complicated. It starts from 1922, on 40 years anniversary day of stage activity of the actress.
Even then, when the anniversary committee applyed with request to Narkompros to establish the theatre in honour of Maria Zankovetskaya in which it would have been possible to enlighten the creative way of Maria. Maria Konstantinovna was the first one among the other actors who was applied by the museum committee of the new-founded theatre museum belonged to "Berezil", in 1932. The theatre costumes and different material (posters, programms, pictures) were lindly given and represented on the first exposition of the museum, which was held in three rooms of the lobby (now the Ivan Franko National Theatre). The details of the exposition interior present extemporaneous photostudio of the second half of XIX. Thankfully to the photos, we have an opportunity to see what she was in life and on scene, we are able to get to know those ones who used to surround her. The exhibition tells about her husband - he was an artilleryman and officer, O.A.Hlystov, about forecastles of Bendera and Sveaborg where she played successfully in the amateur perfomances together with M.K.Tobylevich (the exhibits of the next hall has an interior of the theatre: concert hall, scene, backstage and make up room). The exponates of the first hall prove the fact that Ukrainian troupes played successfully in Sanct-Petersburg and Moscow in 1886-1887 and 1891-1892 when the leading figures of the Russian culture such as A.Chehov, L.Tolstoy, I.repin and others were fascinated with the perfomances. The creative work of Maria Zankovetskaya was highly appreciated by the Russian theatre critics who represented in their speeches the actress as on of the greatest actors of the world.
