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      🏛 Maly Theatre

      Театральный пр-д, 1

      A classic building of the 1820s on Teatralnaya Square next to the Bolshoi, where Ostrovsky and the Russian classics are staged.

      Maly Theatre
      © Mike1979 Russia · CC BY-SA 3.0
      • The first performance in the present building was given on 14 (26) October 1824.
      • The theater was set up in the merchant Vargin's mansion, rebuilt to a design by Osip Bove.
      • The company dates back to 1756, when by decree of Elizabeth Petrovna a theater was created at Moscow University.
      • Ostrovsky's plays gave the theater its unofficial name, "Ostrovsky's House".
      • On 27 November 1831 "Woe from Wit" was first performed in full in Moscow here.
      • The monument to Ostrovsky at the entrance was put up in 1929, by the sculptor Nikolai Andreev and the architect Fyodor Shekhtel.
      • In 1822 the former serf Mikhail Shchepkin joined the company; according to Herzen, he "was the first to create truth on the Russian stage".

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