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unusual facts about Moscow Art Theatre


Moscow Art Theatre

Mikhail Bulgakov wrote several plays for the MAT and satirised the organisation mercilessly in his novel Black Snow.


Academic theater

The title was established in 1919 and was given to six oldest theaters of the Soviet Union: Bolshoi Theatre, Maly Theatre, Moscow Art Theatre, Alexandrinsky Theatre, Mariinsky Theatre, and Mikhaylovsky Theatre.

Konstantin Khabensky

Since 2003, Khabensky has been a member of Moscow Art Theatre stage cast, and a lead actor in Duck Hunt (Zilov), Mikhail Bulgakov's White Guard (Alexey Turbin) and Hamlet.

Stageworks Theatre

She studied in advanced private classes in New York City with Sandy Meisner (Neighborhood Playhouse), Mira Rostova (Moscow Art Theatre), Wynn Handmann (American Place), and Lloyd Richards (Yale University Drama School).

Vera Komissarzhevskaya

Following Meyerhold's unsuccessful attempts to stage symbolist plays at Stanislavsky's Moscow Art Theatre, Komissarzhevskaya invited him to try his experiments at her new Komissarjevsky Theatre.

Vsevolod Sanayev

Sanayev, who worked both in Moscow Art Theatre and Mossovet Theatres, was the holder of numerous high-profile state titles and awards (People’s Artist of the USSR, 1969; Order of Lenin, 1971; Order of the October Revolution, 1981).


see also

Frederick Marx

The Unspoken (1999), Marx's first feature film, features performances from Russian star Sergei Shnirev of the famed Moscow Art Theatre, and Harry Lennix, most known for Get on the Bus, Bob Roberts, Titus, ER, and The Matrix.

My Life in Art

One of the events that led to the founding of the Moscow Art Theatre was Stanislavski's acquaintance with the theatre's co-director and co-founder Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, who at the time was a well-known Russian playwright and director of the drama school of the Moscow Philharmonic Society.

Oleg Tabakov

He administrated the Sovremennik until 1982, when he moved to the Moscow Art Theatre, where he has played Molière and Salieri for over 20 years.