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6 unusual facts about Russian Academy of Theatre Arts


Andrey Goncharov

In 1936 Goncharov enrolled into the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts, first the actor’s class of V.O.Toporkov, then moved to the directors’ group led by Nikolai Gorchakov.

Boris Kagarlitsky

In the 1970s, he studied theatre criticism at the State Institute of Theatrical Art (GITIS), before being expelled for dissident activities in 1980.

Elena Tchaikovskaia

The Russian Academy of Theatre Arts has a special faculty for former sportsmen and figure skaters who are willing to become coaches.

Maxim Shchyogolev

Here the first year student was noticed by the Moscow Luna Theatre's director Sergey Prokhanov who invited him to join his own troupe and transferred him to his own class in RAoTA.

Victoria Karasyova

Has two higher education, in 2000 graduated from MGIMO named Shnitke (faculty of Music Arts) and in 2005 graduated from Russian Academy of Theatre Arts (faculty of Musical Theatre, chair of actors and producers of musical theater).

Zhanna Gromova

In 1990 Gromova graduated from ice choreography faculty of GITIS.


Igor Starygin

An alumnus of the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts, Starygin had more than 40 roles in films and is most known for the role of Aramis in D'Artagnan and Three Musketeers (1979) and its sequels (1992, 1993, 2007).


see also

Vicki Hirsch

She also studied at the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts in Moscow, where she trained with World Master Gennadi Bogdanov in Russian Classical Biomechanics.