Russia · Moscow
In the early 1920s, after the Russian October Revolution of 1917, the so called "travelling" theatres appeared in Russia. They trouped around Moscow in some wagons and carried all their decorations with themselves. These theatres played cheap performances "for commoners" and accompanied them with various religious and philosophical discussions and ...
Russia · Moscow
The history of the Satire Theatre's building began in distant times of the 1917 Russian Revolution when the Nikitins' Circus existed. Then, after the Circus moved out because of no food for animals, the Moscow Music Hall moved in. Later the music hall circus was transformed into the Operetta Theatre and only then into the Satire Theatre.
In 1963...
Russia · Moscow
From 1901, the location of the contemporary building was occupied by a theatre of the French entrepreneur Charles Omon, later by a light genre theatre, and after the 1917 Russian Revolution by the Theatre of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
In the 1920s, the building was handed over to the Meyerhold Theatre. A new building was c...