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Pushkin Theatre
Pushkin Theatre, Leningrad. This theatre, renamed in 1937 in honour of Russia's greatest poet, was founded in what was then St Petersburg as the Alexandrinsky. It opened in 1824, the same year as the Maly Theatre in Moscow. It had a fine leading actor in Karatygin but no dramatists of the calibre of Gogol and Ostrovsky, and it never developed a settled policy. For many years its programmes consisted of opera and ballet, and later of patriotic melodramas, and it was not until the end of the 19th century that the first stirrings of realism were felt with the production of such plays as Strindberg's The Father. The first production of Chekhov's The Seagull in 1896 was a complete failure, the company's old-fashioned technique being inadequate to the task of conveying the subtlety of the author's characterization. Just before the October Revolution Meyerhold was working at the Alexandrinsky, his last production there being a revival of Lermontov's Masquerade. Under the guidance of Lunacharsky the theatre weathered the storms of the early 1920s, and by 1924 was ready to include Soviet plays in its repertory, one of the directors at this time being Radlov. In 1937 Meyerhold returned to produce Masquerade again, and during the Second World War the company went on tour, returning to Leningrad in 1944. Interesting landmarks during its later history were a successful production of The Seagull in 1954, in which year it also staged Hamlet, and the 1955 revival by Tovstonogov of Vishnevsky's The Optimistic Tragedy. More recent productions have included Ostrovsky's The Last Sacrifice and Shteyn's Night without Stars (both 1975). The theatre has traditionally been a stronghold of fine acting, and although the death of Cherkassov in 1966 and of several other leading actors in the early 1970s weakened the company for a time, enough good young actors remained to sustain its high standards.
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PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND. "Pushkin Theatre." The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. 30 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND. "Pushkin Theatre." The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. (May 30, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O79-PushkinTheatre.html PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND. "Pushkin Theatre." The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 1996. Retrieved May 30, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O79-PushkinTheatre.html |
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Vasily Vasilyevich Vereshchagin
Vasily Vasilyevich Vereshchagin , 1842–1904, Russian painter, soldier, and traveler. He is best known for his military pictures, which portrayed war in all its horror and brutality. He is known also for his studies of Turkistan and Asian life and the canvases dealing with Anglo-Indian history. Among his most famous pictures are Before the Attack,After the Attack,The Apotheosis of War,Left Behind,The Presentation of the Trophies, All Quiet at the Shipka Pass,The Graves at Shipka, and Blessing the Dead. Most of his works are collected in the Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow. He was killed in the explosion of the flagship Petropavlovsk in the Russo-Japanese War.
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"Vasily Vasilyevich Vereshchagin." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. 30 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Vasily Vasilyevich Vereshchagin." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Encyclopedia.com. (May 30, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Vereshch.html "Vasily Vasilyevich Vereshchagin." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2011. Retrieved May 30, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Vereshch.html |
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Pushkin Theatre
Pushkin Theatre, Moscow. This theatre opened in 1951 under Vasily Vasilyevich Vanin (1898–1951), who shortly before his death staged there a revival of Krechinsky's Wedding by Sukhovo-Kobylin. Interesting productions included revivals of Ostrovsky's At a Busy Place in 1952, Chekhov's Ivanov in 1960, and Sholokhov's Virgin Soil Upturned in 1963. The theatre also staged a new translation of Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest in 1957, a dramatization of Goncharov's Oblomov (1969), and Schiller's The Robbers (1986).
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PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND. "Pushkin Theatre." The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. 30 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND. "Pushkin Theatre." The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. (May 30, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O79-PushkinTheatre1.html PHYLLIS HARTNOLL and PETER FOUND. "Pushkin Theatre." The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre. 1996. Retrieved May 30, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O79-PushkinTheatre1.html |
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