Imperial Theatres of Russian Empire (Russian: Императорские театры Российской империи) was a theatrical organization financed by the Imperial exchequer and managed by a single directorate headed with a courtier [ru] director; was pertain to the Ministry of the Imperial Court from 1742.
The system operated in Russian Empire before the October Revolution along with numerous private particular and public theatres. It has integrated opera, ballet and drama companies in Saint Petersburg (the capital of the country at that time) and Moscow, two theatrical schools for raising of artistes and numerous buildings and opera houses in these cities.
ImperialTheatres of Russian Empire (Russian: Императорские театры Российской империи) was a theatrical organization financed by the Imperial exchequer...
Booth, Shubert, and Broadhurst Theatres to the south; and the Majestic, Bernard B. Jacobs, and John Golden Theatres to the southwest. The site was historically...
Master) of the St. Petersburg ImperialTheatres, making him Ballet Master and principal choreographer of the Imperial Ballet (today known as the Mariinsky...
the official post of Composer of Ballet Music to the St. Petersburg ImperialTheatres, a position he held until it was abolished upon his retirement in...
sell his theatres and other assets. In 1930, Famous Players assumed complete control of the venue. The theatre was renamed the ImperialTheatre, and began...
of the Neva River. The Hermitage Theatre was the second theatre of the Winter Palace. It replaced the Russian Imperial Theater, which operated from 1764...
the ImperialTheatres in Russia from 1881 to 1898 and director of the Hermitage from 1899 to his death in 1909. Vsevolozhsky ran the ImperialTheatres with...
foyer. The theatre's name has changed throughout its history, reflecting the political climate of the time: 1860 – 1920: Imperial Mariinsky Theatre (Russian:...
for the ballets he composed for Her Majesty's Theatre in London (1843–1850), and for the ImperialTheatres in St. Petersburg, Russia (1850–1870). The majority...
director of the Moscow ImperialTheatres at the time, possibly with Vasily Geltser, danseur of the Moscow Imperial Bolshoi Theatre (a surviving copy of...
she obtained the rank of Prima ballerina of the Saint Petersburg ImperialTheatres. The maestro Marius Petipa did not consent to Kschessinskaya receiving...
during the opera season in Padua the director of the Saint Petersburg ImperialTheatres, Baron Karl Karlovich Kister, attended a performance of Donizetti's...
Russian noble of the Naryshkin family. He was the director of the ImperialTheatres from 1799 to 1819 and Marshal of Nobility of Saint-Petersburg from...
Theatres for Russian tsars appeared as early as the 17th century, but only members of the Imperial family and their immediate circles could attend the...
Petipa, who served as Premier Maître de ballet of the St. Petersburg ImperialTheatres from 1871 until 1903. The Sergeyev Collection also documents a small...
company of the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Founded in the 18th century and originally known as the Imperial Russian Ballet, the Mariinsky...
London ImperialTheatres of Russian Empire, existed in Saint Petersburg and Moscow till 1917. ImperialTheatre (Augusta, Georgia) Imperial Theater (San...
Saint Petersburg in 1801 at the invitation of the director of the ImperialTheatres and made his debut as the first dancer. His career as a dancer ended...
in operas and dramas of other theatres of the imperial troupe. After the revolution of 1917, each of the imperialtheatres gained autonomy, and the ballet...
among others, by Nikolai Gogol) was banned from being produced by ImperialTheatres. "Judging by these scenes what the Moscow merchants only do is cheat...
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