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History of the theater

The Russian Academic Youth Theater is rightfully proud of its history and traditions. Anna Kern once visited the magnificent ancient building of the architect O. Bove in the very center of Moscow - on Teatralnaya Square. This house has always been known as the center of cultural life in Moscow. In 1840, the Artistic Circle met here under the leadership of A.N. Ostrovsky, in 1898 the Imperial New Theater opened. At the beginning of the twentieth century, F. Chaliapin and L. Sobinov performed on this stage, in S. Zimin’s private opera. From 1924 to 1936, the Moscow Art Theater II was located here, directed by Mikhail Chekhov.

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The history of the Russian Academic Youth Theater (formerly the Central Children's Theater) begins on July 13, 1921, when the country's first theater for children opened in the Ars cinema in Moscow with the play "Adalmina's Pearl". Then it was called the Moscow Theater for Children. Its organizer and first leader was young Natalya Ilyinichna Sats. In 1936, the theater was renamed the Central Children's Theater and in the same year it received its current premises - on Teatralnaya Square, next to the Bolshoi and Maly theaters.

In the 1950s, the theater was headed by associate K.S. Stanislavsky, a person who became a teacher for a whole galaxy of wonderful actors and directors, Maria Osipovna Knebel. With her, young Anatoly Efros came to the theater, revealing the talents of aspiring playwrights Viktor Rozov and Alexander Khmelik.

The most popular actress Valentina Sperantova has worked on our stage all her life. Sergei Mikhalkov, Viktor Rozov, Grigory Polonsky, Yuri Shchekochikhin wrote their plays especially for our theater. Oleg Efremov, Oleg Anofriev, Gennady Saifulin, Lev Durov, Irina Muravyova, Yan Arlazorov, Sergey Shakurov began their professional lives here, Olga Pyzhova, Pyotr Fomenko, Georgy Tovstonogov, Pavel Chomsky, Sergey Yashin staged plays. Evgeny Dvorzhetsky and Igor Nefedov played on this stage.

The artistic directors at different times were L. Volkov, V. Dudin, O. Pyzhova, V. Kuzmin, M. Knebel. And for almost 30 years now, the artistic director of RAMT has been People's Artist of Russia, laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation, laureate of the Moscow Prize Alexey BORODIN.

In 1992, the theater changed its name and became the Russian Academic Youth Theater (RAMT). The word “youth” did not appear by chance. In the dictionary V.I. Dahl’s word “youth” includes all periods of the formation of the human personality: childhood, adolescence, adolescence. And the theater’s repertoire fully corresponds to its name. Here you can find performances for all ages: children’s, which are attended by young spectators with their parents, teenagers and adults. This is the uniqueness of our theater.

RAMT experiments a lot with new forms, without forgetting the traditions of the Stanislavsky school. The repertoire is based on literary fairy tales and folklore, classics, domestic and foreign and modern drama. Artistic sincerity, the highest level of culture and intelligence are extremely important for the theater. This is the position of the entire creative team of RAMT.

Today in the RAMT playbill you can find performances based on the works of Mark Twain and Nikolai Nosov, Tennessee Williams and Tom Stoppard, Oscar Wilde and Evgeny Schwartz, F.M. Dostoevsky and A.P. Chekhov, Vladimir Nabokov and Rudyard Kipling, Mikhail Zoshchenko and Boris Akunin, who wrote the plays “Yin and Yang. White Version” and “Yin and Yang. Black Version” especially for RAMT.

The RAMT troupe is rightfully considered one of the best in Moscow. This is confirmed by numerous acting titles, awards and theater awards. RAMT is a regular participant in theater festivals and a laureate of many theater awards and competitions. His collection of awards includes the State Prize of Russia (the play “Les Miserables” by V. Hugo, 1985), the Moscow City Hall Prize (the plays “Berenice” by J. Racine and “Our Town” by T. Wilder, 1994; “The Diary of Anne Frank”, 2001) and National Theater Award "Golden Mask" (in the nomination "Innovation" - the play "Victory over the Sun", 1999, special prize of the drama jury - the trilogy "The Coast of Utopia", 2009).

The theater is loved by audiences and highly praised by critics. In February 2002, RAMT became the first winner of the prize of the Moscow Association of Theater Critics at the Oleg Efremov Charitable Foundation "For achievements in the field of theatrical art." The theater's performances invariably evoke a huge response from professionals and great interest from audiences. RAMT is a sold-out theater! We love our viewer, and he loves us back.

Object of cultural heritage of federal significance "Building of the Central Children's Theater, 1821, 70s of the XIX century, 1909." (Part);
The identified cultural heritage object "Trading rows of the apartment building of K.M. Poltoratsky, 1821-1823." (Part);
Identified cultural heritage object "Apartment house of K.M. Poltoratsky with trading shops, 1821, 1829, architect A.S. Kaminsky"

1821 A participant in the Napoleonic Wars, Major General Konstantin Poltoratsky, having returned from the deployment of troops in France and married the lady-in-waiting of the Supreme Court, Princess Sofya Golitsyna, is building a house in Moscow on Teatralnaya Square.

1840 The owner of the house becomes the merchant P. Bronnikov. In the built-on mezzanine, which includes a columned hall with windows onto Okhotny Ryad, Theater Square and Bolshaya Dmitrovka, the famous Barsov tavern opens, where actors, theatergoers, and writers dined after performances.

1869 Bronnikov rents out the mezzanine of the house to the "Artistic Circle", created on the initiative of Alexander Ostrovsky. It was a private theater created in circumvention of the official ban. Performances were given here, acting training took place, actors from all over the country came here during Lent to conclude contracts with entrepreneurs.

1882 After the abolition of the state monopoly in the theater business, the era of private theaters began. Mikhail Lentovsky opens the New Drama Theater in the building. After the fire, architect Boris Freidenberg rebuilt the building, giving it its current appearance and equipping a hall with 1,600 seats inside.

1886 The Shelaputin Theater opens in the building, named after one of the owners - merchant and philanthropist Pavel Shelaputin.

1898 The Imperial New Theater is moving into the building. It provides work for the expanding troupe of the Maly Theater and, in fact, becomes its branch.

1907 The building changes hands again. Here, throughout the year, the private Zimin Opera, where Fyodor Chaliapin sang, gives performances. Then the Orion cinema opens, followed by the private K. Nezlobin Theater.

1913 The Nezlobin Theater shares the stage with the First Studio of the Moscow Art Theater, in which Stanislavsky and studio actors Evgeny Vakhtangov, Leopold Sulerzhitsky, Alexey Dikiy and others conduct theatrical research. In the 1920s, the building often hosted opera and ballet performances of the Bolshoi Theater.

1924 The first studio of the Moscow Art Theater is given the status of an academic theater and the name "Moscow Art Theater 2nd". The building remained at his disposal until the theater was liquidated in 1936. The troupe, which included Serafima Birman, Sofya Giatsintova, Ivan Bersenev and others, was directed by Mikhail Chekhov, and after Chekhov’s emigration in 1928 - by Ivan Bersenev.

1936 The building becomes the property of the Central Children's Theater, created fifteen years ago by Natalia Sats.

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The Central Children's Theater was founded in 1921 (the modern name is the Russian Academic Youth Theater) and over the years has staged over 400 performances. But the theatrical history of the Poltoratsky mansion began in the 19th century.

The apartment building on Teatralnaya Square was built in 1821 by order of Konstantin Poltoratsky. The project by architect Alexander Elkinsky was implemented by Fyodor Shestakov with the participation of Osip Bove. In the 1840s, the house passed to the merchant Bronnikov, and under him the halls and mezzanine of the house began to be rented out to the theater of the Moscow Artistic Circle. Later, the building was rented by the artist and director Mikhail Lentovsky, who completed the construction of the third floor and equipped a practically new auditorium with 1,500 seats.

The theatrical history of the house was continued by the merchant Pavel Shelaputin; the Imperial New Theater was opened for young actors who could not find roles in the Bolshoi and Maly theaters. The private Zimin Opera Theater and the private theater of Konstantin Nezlobin gave performances on this stage.

New Imperial Theater. 1900: https://pastvu.com/p/15790

After the revolution, the building was transferred to the Moscow Art Theater Theater-Studio 2, where Mikhail Chekhov staged mainly classical repertoire, ignoring modern Soviet drama. According to the memoirs of contemporaries, the second Moscow Art Theater was “a complex, most interesting creative organism, an arena for the collision of dissimilar, and sometimes polar opposite, individualities and artistic aspirations.” Disagreements in the leadership did not contribute to the survival of the theater during the years of tightening censorship, and in 1936 a decree of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR and the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks appeared on its closure: “The so-called Moscow Art Theater 2 does not justify its title of Moscow Art Theater and in fact is a mediocre theater, the preservation of which in Moscow is not caused by necessity.”

The building on Sverdlov Square was transferred to the “Moscow Theater for Children” under the direction of young Natalia Sats (the theater was previously located on Tverskaya Street in the former Ars cinema). The year of its foundation - 1921 - is considered the year of founding of the Central Children's Theater and its successor - the Russian Academic Youth Theater. “Adalmina’s Pearl” is the first performance of the new theater, which from the first days fulfilled a pedagogical mission, sometimes involving children in the performance, opening the door to a fairy tale for them.

There was enormous interest in the performances; it happened that children sat two on one chair. “Yes, you have to love this difficult task, you have to love these frozen, attentive faces, warmed by the reflections of the footlights, the cries and remarks of the sociable hall, the high sound of children’s applauding hands...” - this is how the writer Lev Kassil described the atmosphere of the children's theater. In the 1936 season, the staff included 375 employees plus an orchestra of 28 musicians; composer Dmitry Kabalevsky, writers Valentin Kataev and Evgeny Schwartz collaborated with the theater.

Central Children's Theatre. 1936-1940: https://pastvu.com/p/274779

And then a dark streak came - in 1937 Natalia Sats was repressed as the wife of an “enemy of the people”, many artists left, and in 1939 there was a fire, the historical interiors were destroyed in the fire. Soon the war began and the actors became part of the front-line concert brigades of the Voronezh, Stalingrad, 3rd Ukrainian fronts, and part of the CDT troupe was evacuated to Siberia, where in 1942 they produced seven premiere performances. Theater employees donated their savings to build the tank.

Only in 1947 was the Central Children's Theater able to return to its stage on Sverdlov Square. In the 1950-1960s, the CDT was one of the most popular theaters in the capital; Anatoly Efros staged plays here and Oleg Efremov played.

Central Children's Theatre. 1972: https://pastvu.com/p/112274

Throughout the Soviet years, the theater was obliged to fulfill certain ideological government orders, but at the same time it found the opportunity to create performances that introduced viewers to the treasures of world culture and taught them to “think and suffer.”

View from Bolshaya Dmitrovka, here is the service entrance to RAMT.

In 1980, Alexey Borodin was appointed to the post of artistic director, who still heads the troupe to this day. The current name - Russian Academic Youth Theater - appeared in 1992, expanding the range of the audience. In its repertoire you can find not only productions for schoolchildren, but also for older viewers, for viewers of any age.

The season opens at RAMT with the oldest performance in the repertoire - “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”, which has been performed over 600 times. The troupe tours a lot, and not only abroad, but throughout the Russian outback, reaching Khabarovsk, Birobidzhan, Komsomolsk-on-Amur.

Foyer interior 1900-1936: https://pastvu.com/p/39137

Foyer interior from 1936: https://pastvu.com/p/39135

“Flowers for Algernon” (2013), director Yuri Grymov

Yuri Grymov: “A sensual experiment in the field of human relations. This story is not related to the achievements of science. I moved away from this as much as possible, saw it alive and humane, absolutely biblical, and therefore - about people and timeless.” Starring Maxim Kerin.

The story by Daniel Keyes was originally published in the April 1959 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Keyes subsequently expanded the story into a full-fledged novel, which won the Nebula Award for best novel in 1966. The main character, Charlie Gordon, a 32-year-old mentally retarded cleaner in a bakery, volunteers to participate in an experiment to improve intelligence. After a successful operation on a mouse named Algernon, they decide to perform a similar operation on some mentally retarded person. The choice falls on Charlie, as he shows a desire to learn to read and write better, to become smarter. Charlie's learning speed is many times greater than that of ordinary people - and after just a few weeks he is fluent in several languages and enjoys reading technical literature. Despite the apparent initial success of the experiment, the behavior of the mouse gives serious cause for concern - its intelligence begins to fade away as quickly as it grew. After some time, Algernon dies. In the novel, the main character tries to the last, using his still powerful intellect, to find a positive way out of this situation. But Charlie's mental level declines as quickly as it rose and returns to its original state.

“House with a Turret” (2016), director Ekaterina Polovtseva

Ekaterina Polovtseva: “Sometimes you need to go through the pain of loss again in order to let go, forgive yourself for not being there, not helping, not saving, being helpless and confused. In order to ultimately come to light and love.” Cast: Maxim Kerin, Maria Ryshchenkova, Alexey Blokhin, Taras Epifantsev, Anna Kovaleva, Nikolai Mokhnatkin, Alexander Pakhomov, Lyudmila Pivovarova.

The play is based on an autobiographical story by Soviet playwright Friedrich Gorenstein. The father of the future writer was shot before the war as an enemy of the people, and his mother died in evacuation. The boy found himself among people indifferent to his grief. He will spend several years in an orphanage and after that he will never outlive his orphanhood and loneliness. “The House with a Turret” was his first story, published in 1964 in the magazine “Yunost”. And indeed the only work published in the USSR. Gorenstein's prose was uncomfortable in the country of socialist realism.

Director Ekaterina Polovtseva staged a tough and realistic performance. This goes to the credit of Irina Ukolova, who worked on the set design, costumes and lighting. The props are carefully selected and authentic to the era, although this story is timeless and could have happened in any era and anywhere.

“Democracy” (2016), director Alexey Borodin

Alexey Borodin: “It really scares me that people today have completely abandoned discussion, stopped hearing each other, and accepting different points of view... We have lost the habit of conducting dialogue, hence the endless vicious circle of the same problems, the inability to correct the same errors. It seems to me that the theater is exactly the place where people come together and can enter into dialogue.” Cast: Ilya Isaev, Pyotr Krasilov, Alexey Veselkin, Alexey Myasnikov, Andrey Bazhin, Alexey Blokhin, Oleg Zima, Alexander Doronin.

The play, based on the play by English playwright Michael Frayn, tells about the political situation in Germany in the 1960s-1970s, when Chancellor Willy Brandt took the first steps towards bringing together the two German states formed after the Second World War - the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic. It is curious that only men are on stage; there are no female roles in the play. "Democracy" is a synthesis of spy detective and psychological drama.

“Our people - we will be numbered” (2016), director Egor Ravinsky

Egor Ravinsky: “For me, this is a story not so much about human greed, pride and fear, but about a person’s desperate attempt to control his life, “to grab this world by the horns,” “to grab fate by the tail.” In this story, good and evil “blur”, become almost inseparable from each other, white turns into black and vice versa...” Cast: Alexander Grishin, Ramilya Iskander, Daria Semenova, Tatyana Matyukhova, Mikhail Shklovsky and other actors.

Merchant Samson Silych Bolshov decided to declare himself bankrupt, transferring his fortune to “his man” - clerk Lazar Podkhalyuzin, and at the same time marry his only daughter Lipochka to him. The story of fictitious bankruptcy subjugates the whole family, one scam gives rise to another, bringing the merchant into a debt trap. Yegor Ravinsky staged the play in a classical manner, with historical costumes and scenery, without trying to modernize the plot. Or it could, because over the past century and a half a lot has changed in Russia, but not the morals of the enterprising part of the population. Samson Silych, pay your taxes and sleep well.

“Ricky” (2017), director Vladimir Bogatyrev

Vladimir Bogatyrev: “Ricky might not have fought the insidious Naga, who violates the laws of the Jungle. But everyone chooses their own path. Our performance is a conversation with a young viewer about the sacrifice of a loner who is forced to become a hero, about whether it is necessary to risk one’s peace, and sometimes life, in order for the world to become kinder and fairer.” Cast: Yuri Trubin (Ricky), Alexander Devyatyarov (Teddy), Anastasia Prokofieva (Nagaina), Iznaur Ortsuev (Nag), Alexandra Arons (Chuchundra) and other actors.

The author of The Jungle Book, Rudyard Kipling, traveled a lot across countries and continents, but his love was India, a country that the writer called “paradise on earth.” The plots of many of his stories were born there; the story about Rikki-Tikki-Tavi also takes place in an Indian village. Ricky is a little mongoose who declared a great war on powerful rivals - two cobras who know no pity.

“For children you need to play the same way as for adults, only even better,” Konstantin Stanislavsky once said. The creators of the new production about the life of the inhabitants of the Indian jungle, in an adult way, added drama to the performance in the spirit of a tough documentary series about National Geographic wildlife and did without a happy ending. Sometimes you eat the bear, and sometimes the bear eats you. In general, as the children's writer Samuil Marshak advised to do in such cases, the authors speak to children “without cooing and without preaching.”

The Russian Academic Youth Theater is located next to the Bolshoi Theater; its stage remembers the performances of Fyodor Chaliapin and Leonid Sobinov. It was here that Ostrovsky’s artistic circle gathered and the brightest balls of the late 19th century were held. Nowadays, the RAMT hosts Summer ballet seasons, presenting masterpieces of world choreography. In the photo: rehearsal of the ballet “Swan Lake”.

Russian Academic Youth Theater is rightfully proud of its history and traditions. Anna Kern once visited the magnificent ancient building of the architect O. Bove in the very center of Moscow - on Teatralnaya Square. This house has always been known as the center of cultural life in Moscow. In 1840, the Artistic Circle met here under the leadership of A.N. Ostrovsky, in 1898 the Imperial New Theater opened. At the beginning of the twentieth century, F. Chaliapin and L. Sobinov performed on this stage, in S. Zimin’s private opera. From 1924 to 1936, the Moscow Art Theater II was located here, directed by Mikhail Chekhov.

History of the Russian Academic Youth Theater (formerly the Central Children's Theater) begins July 13, 1921, when in Moscow there is a performance in the Ars cinema "Adalmina's Pearl" The country's first theater for children opened. Then it was called the Moscow Theater for Children. Its organizer and first leader was the young Natalya Ilyinichna Sats. In 1936, the theater was renamed the Central Children's Theater and in the same year it received its current premises - on Teatralnaya Square, next to the Bolshoi and Maly theaters.

In the 50s the theater was headed by an associate of K. S. Stanislavsky, a person who became a teacher for a whole galaxy of wonderful actors and directors, Maria Osipovna Knebel. With her, young Anatoly Efros came to the theater, revealing the talents of young aspiring playwrights Viktor Rozov and Alexander Khmelik.

The most popular actress, Valentina Sperantova, who worked all her life at the Central Children's Theater, worked on our wall all her life. Sergei Mikhalkov, Viktor Rozov, Grigory Polonsky, Yuri Shchekochikhin wrote their plays especially for our theater. Oleg Efremov, Oleg Anofriev, Gennady Saifulin, Lev Durov, Irina Muravyova, Yan Arlazorov, Sergey Shakurov began their professional lives in our theater. Olga Pyzhova, Pyotr Fomenko, Georgy Tovstonogov, Pavel Chomsky, Sergei Yashin staged plays here. Oleg Efremov made his directorial debut here. The first play by Viktor Rozov, “Her Friends,” was staged here. Evgeny Dvorzhetsky and Igor Nefedov played on this stage.

Artistic directors at different times there were L. Volkov, V. Dudin, O. Pyzhova, V. Kuzmin, M. Knebel. And for more than 25 years now, the artistic director of RAMT has been People's Artist of Russia, laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation, laureate of the Moscow Prize Alexey BORODIN.

In 1992 the theater changed its name and became the Russian Academic Youth (RAMT). The word “youth” did not appear by chance. In the dictionary V.I. Dahl’s word “youth” includes all periods of the formation of the human personality: childhood, adolescence, adolescence. And the theater’s repertoire fully corresponds to its name. Here you can find performances for all ages: children’s, which are attended by young spectators with their parents, teenagers and adults. This is the uniqueness of our theater.

Today in the RAMT poster you can find performances based on the works of Mark Twain and Nikolai Nosov, Alfred de Musset and Tennessee Williams, Alexey Arbuzov and Evgeny Schwartz, F. Dostoevsky and A. Chekhov, Eugene Ionesco and William Golding, Boris Vasiliev and Boris Akunin, who wrote plays especially for RAMT “Yin and Yang. White version" and "Yin and Yang. Black version."

RAMT troupe is rightfully considered one of the best in Moscow. The theater has received awards at theater festivals and competitions more than once. In 1985, the play “Les Miserables” by V. Hugo was awarded the State Prize of Russia; in 1994, the plays “Berenice” by J. Racine and “Our Town” by T. Wilder received the Moscow City Hall Prize. In 2001, the Moscow City Hall award was given to the play “The Diary of Anne Frank,” in which Chulpan Khamatova, a student of A.V. Borodin, shone. Theater artists invariably become laureates of various competitions and receive prestigious professional awards. Young artists constantly receive festival awards “Moscow Debuts”, “The Seagull”, and “Golden Mask”. In 1999, the play “Victory over the Sun” was awarded the National Golden Mask Award in the “Innovation” category; in 2005, the play “Rules of Conduct in Modern Society” was presented in two categories at once: best small-form performance and best female performance. role. In 2002, the play “Erast Fandorin” received 3 “Seagull” awards in the categories “Breakthrough” (P. Krasilov), “Dazzling Moment” (A. Sipin) and “Seductive Woman” (I. Nizina). In 2003, Alexander Ustyugov received “The Seagull” for playing the role of the Shadow in the play of the same name based on the play by E. Schwartz. In 2004, the play “The Idiot” received 2 “Seagulls” (artists Irina Nizina and Alexander Ustyugov in the “Some Like It Hot” category and the director of the play Regis Obadiah in the “Take a Step” category). In 2003, actresses Tatyana Matyukhova and Elena Galiina received the International K.S. Foundation Award. Stanislavsky "Moscow Premiere" for the performance of the main roles in the play "The Miracle Worker" based on W. Gibson. And in 2004, for the same work they were awarded the Moscow Prize. Daria Semenova, who played the main role in the play “Tanya” based on A. Arbuzov (directed by A. Ponomarev), received 3 professional awards at once: the “Moscow Debuts” award, the Reader’s Choice Award of the newspaper “Komsomolskaya Pravda” for the best performance of a female role and a prize magazine "Planet Beauty". The theater has won awards at numerous festivals. He toured throughout the country and abroad: in Bulgaria, Holland, the USA, Canada, France, Yugoslavia, England, Germany, etc. In 2004, RAMT toured China with great success. This was the first Russian drama theater to visit this country in the last 50 years. And in 2005, RAMT became the first domestic theater to go on tour to Iceland.

The theater is loved by audiences and highly praised by critics. In February 2002, RAMT became the first winner of the prize of the Moscow Association of Theater Critics at the Oleg Efremov Charitable Foundation “For achievements in the field of theatrical art.” The theater's performances invariably evoke a huge response from professionals and great interest from audiences. RAMT is a sold-out theater! We love our viewer, and he loves us back.

The building of the Russian Academic Youth Theater at 2, next to the legendary theaters, is memorable to many residents and guests of Moscow for the Children's Theater located within these walls until 1992, which was founded back in 1936 by Natalya Ilyinichna Sats.

The pompous building itself was erected in 1821 according to the architect’s design with the assistance of. The customer was Major General Konstantin Markovich Poltoratsky. They organized balls in local halls that thundered throughout the Mother See of the capital.

Photo 1. Teatralnaya Square, 2 in Moscow

History of the theater venue

In 1840, the building was bought by the merchant of the 1st guild P.A. Bronnikov. It was during his tenure, from 1869 to 1882, that the Artistic Circle was located here, occupying the mezzanine and several halls. Its honorary members were Alexander Nikolaevich Ostrovsky, Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev, and Mikhail Evgrafovich Saltykov-Shchedrin.

In 1882, when the premises were leased to entrepreneur Mikhail Valentinovich Lentovsky, the building was significantly rebuilt. Then the third floor appeared, and the auditorium was expanded and it could accommodate about one and a half thousand people. The project was carried out by architect Boris Viktorovich Freidenberg.

Photo 2. The building of the Russian Youth Theater on Teatralnaya

In 1886, the building at No. 2 on Teatralnaya Square became the property of the hereditary nobleman Pavel Grigorievich Shelaputin. That is why you can find references to this building as the “Shelaputin Theater”.

In 1898, the premises were rented by the Russian state to house the New Theater, which was one of the Imperial Theatres. It existed until 1907, until it was abolished. In addition to him, the private opera of Sergei Ivanovich Zimin also gave performances on this stage, which became the basis for the creation of a modern opera on Bolshaya Dmitrovka.