The Bolshoi Theatre has launched a new internet project named
Discover the History of the Bolshoi Theatre which deals with its 240-year-old history. The project is implemented through the ABBYY Company, reports
TASS. In order to implement the project, volunteers have been engaged in the work. They help digitize and transcribe materials kept in the archive of the Bolshoi Theatre.
About 200,000 programs and posters for performances and over 100,000 photographs are found there. All the historical documents will be digitized and become available on the special site which development started yet in late summer 2016 under the support of the Bolshoi Theatre Foundations and its trustees.
Vladimir Urin noted that thanks to the ABBYY Company all the documents would be digitized much sooner than they had been expected to. After that, the documents would be checked by the specialists working at the Museum of the Bolshoi Theatre and only then internet users would be able to see them on the site.
«I am pleased that our audience members who like and appreciate our theatre will be involved in the project activities. I invite all those who are interested in it to join our project”, Mr. Urin said. In order to do that, one should log in at
«Discover the History of the Bolshoi Theatre».
