In contemporary Russia, the cult of Stalin is being revived. The process there was reflected on the stage of theaters. Kirill Serebrennikov staged a documentary performance, “Stalin's Funeral”, based, on the one hand, on the memories of historical witnesses who remember March 1953, and on the other hand, on the statements of cultural activists who warn against admiration for the dictatorship. Valery Fokine, trying to understand the nature of totalitarianism, staged a play about the birth of Stalin. The character of "Young Soso" on the stage of the Alexandrinsky Theater refers to the work of Fyodor Dostoyevsky.