Russia · Veliky Novgorod
In Veliky Novgorod (Novgorod, for short), the first stationary theatre that was affordable for all was founded in 1918, at the Department of Art at the Board of Education of Novgorod Governorate. This was the Novgorod Theatre of the October Revolution (as the 1917 Russian Revolution is known in Russia). The new social order put forward new requirem...
Dnieper River · Ukraine · Kiev
The Ukranian National Circus is a center of a circus art, and has achieved nationwide and worldwide recognition. The greatest performers, whose names are written in the history of Ukranian and world circus art in golden letters, had performed on its arena, and many generations of spectators know and remember them. It is a unique experimental platfo...
Dnieper River · Ukraine · Kiev
A resident opera company was created in Kiev as late as in 1867, becoming, alongside the Moscow and Saint Petersburg theatres, one of the Russian Empire's best.
An impulse to the creation of a permanent theatre was provided by the successful 1865–1866 Kiev tours of Italian opera companies. The company worked in the City Theatre's building constr...