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      ✨ Obraztsov Puppet Theatre and the animal clock

      Садовая-Самотёчная ул., 3

      The country's main puppet theater on the Garden Ring, with a famous fairy-tale clock on its facade and a puppet museum.

      Obraztsov Puppet Theatre and the animal clock
      © Чръный человек · CC BY 4.0
      • The facade clock was made in 1970 to a design by the sculptors Dmitry Shakhovskoy and Pavel Shimes; the mechanism was designed by Veniamin Kalmanson.
      • Every hour one of the 12 little houses opens and a fairy-tale character comes out to the tune of "Vo sadu li, v ogorode", and at exactly noon all 12 open.
      • The theater was founded in 1931; in its first years it had no stage of its own, and sets were carried on a cart pulled by a gelding named Kater.
      • The building on the Garden Ring was originally built for Stanislavsky's Opera and Drama Theatre; construction was stopped and the building was reworked for the puppeteers by 1970.
      • The 1950 show "An Unusual Concert" has been performed more than 10,000 times in over 90 countries.
      • During the war the theater sent 16 concert brigades to the front, which gave 328 performances.
      • The theatrical puppet museum has more than 4,000 exhibits, from antiquity to the present day.
      • Since 2006 a bronze monument to Sergey Obraztsov with his favorite puppet Carmen has stood by the theater.

      Part of these routes

      • A rainy day: puppets, mice and syrniki
      • Obraztsov puppets and the Apothecary Garden
      • Palms, an animal clock and a family café
      • Nikulin at the wheel, the clock with animals and the Apothecaries' Garden

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