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                                                        Alexandrinsky Theatre 
                                                                           
                         
                        ALEXANDRINSKY THEATRE (2 Ostrovskogo Square), called Alexandrinsky Theatre 1832-1920, it was granted the status of Academic in 1919, and in 1920 named the Petrograd (Leningrad) State Academic Drama Theatre (Akdrama, Gosdrama)
                                             
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                                                        Cabaret Theatres (entry) 
                                                                           
                         
                        CABARET THEATRES became widely popular in St. Petersburg from 1908 and occupied a prominent place in the life and art during the pre-Revolutionary decade. Modelled on western European cabaret theatres
                                             
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                                                        Comedians Halt, Cabaret 
                                                                           
                         
                        COMEDIANS HALT (Astrologer) (Prival Comediantov (Zvezdochet)), literary and artistic cabaret theatre. It was opened in 1916 in the vault of the House of Adamini (7 the Field of Mars)
                                             
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                                                        Drama Theatre (entry) 
                                                                           
                         
                        DRAMA THEATRE. The performances of the theatre of Tsar Peter the Great's sister, Tsarevna Natalia Alexeevna (from 1714) can be considered as the first attempts to establish a standing public theatre in St. Petersburg
                                             
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                                                        House of Four Colonnades 
                                                                           
                         
                        HOUSE OF FOUR COLONNADES (12 Sadovaya Street), a monument of Neoclassical architecture. Built in the 1750s-60s, supposedly to the design of architect A.F. Kokorin; the facades reconstructed in 1809-10 (architect S.P. Bernikov, L. Rusca)
                                             
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                                                        Miniatures Theatres (entry) 
                                                                           
                         
                        MINIATURES THEATRES, variety theatres with repertoires embracing all types and genres of theatrical art and concerts. In St. Petersburg, they emerged as clubs and theatre-cabarets
                                             
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                                                        Show-Booth, Cabaret Theatre 
                                                                           
                         
                        SHOW-BOOTH (Balaganchik), the night cabaret theatre, was opened at the Free Comedy theatre in the autumn of 1921, which was established in 1920 by the Petrograd Theatre Society and the Department for Political Enlightenment of the Baltic Fleet
                                             
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                                                        Telyakovsky V.A. (1861-1924), dramatist 
                                                                           
                         
                        TELYAKOVSKY Vladimir Arkadyevich (1861, St. Petersburg [?] - 1924, Leningrad), dramatist, Privy Councillor (1909). After graduating from the Page Corps, he served with the Guards from 1879 to 1898
                                             
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                                                        Tovstonogov Bolshoy Drama Theatre 
                                                                           
                         
                        TOVSTONOGOV BOLSHOY DRAMA THEATRE (BDT), academic theater located at 65 Fontanka Embankment, founded in 1919 by the joint effort of A.A. Blok (director), M. Gorky (in 1932-92 bore his name) and M.F
                                             
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