What  historic theatre in Moscow, Russia, designed by architect Joseph Bové, who's deputy director was a Soviet author, screenplay writer, theater director, and columnist for "Pravda"?
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Boris Gusman Boris Yevseyevich Gusman (1892–1944) was a Soviet author, screenplay writer, theater director, and columnist for "Pravda". As deputy director for the Bolshoi Theatre and later director of the Soviet Radio Committee Arts Division, Gusman played an important role in promoting Sergei Prokofiev's music in the USSR and internationally. Gusman was arrested during the Great Purges of the late 1930s, and died in a labor camp in 1944.
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Bolshoi Theatre The Bolshoi Theatre (Russian: Большо́й теа́тр , "Bol'shoy Teatr, Big Theatre"; ] ) is a historic theatre in Moscow, Russia, designed by architect Joseph Bové, which holds ballet and opera performances. Before the October Revolution it was a part of the Imperial Theatres of the Russian Empire along with Maly Theatre ("Small Theatre") in Moscow and a few theatres in Saint Petersburg (Hermitage Theatre, Bolshoi (Kamenny) Theatre, later Mariinsky Theatre and others).
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Josef Kodíček Josef Kodíček (24 January 1892 – November 1954) was a Czech journalist and theatre critic. During the 1930s, he was a part of the Friday Men circle which used to meet at Karel Čapek's house in Prague.
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Leonid Bykov Leonid Bykov (Russian: Леонид Фёдорович Быков , 11 December 1928 in Znamenka village, Artemivsk Okruha of Ukraine, USSR - 11 April 1979 in Kiev Oblast of Ukraine, USSR) was a Soviet actor, film director, and script writer. Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1965). People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (1974)
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Nikolai Sorokin Nikolai Evgenievich Sorokin (Russian: Николай Евгеньевич Сорокин ; February 15, 1952 – March 26, 2013) was a Russian theatre and film actor, theatre director, educator, and People's Artist of Russia (1999). He was artistic director of the Rostov-on-Don academic drama theatre of a name Maxim Gorky and a deputy of the State Duma of the 3rd convocation.
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Boris Dobronravov Boris Georgiyevich Dobronravov (Russian: Борис Георгиевич Добронравов , 16 April 1896, Moscow, Imperial Russia, — 27 October 1949, Moscow, USSR) was a Russian and Soviet actor, associated with the Moscow Art Theatre.
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Okno (Russian magazine) Okno Magazine (Russian: Журнал "Окно", literally "Window") is one of the Russia's leading literary magazines, which was founded in 1923 in Paris by Mikhail Zetlin, the Russian émigré writer. Three paper-based issues were published in 1923 and in 1924. In 2007 Okno was re-established as a web-only magazine of poetry in Russian. It publishes Russian poetry, including prose poems and visual texts, translations of poetry from other languages into Russian, as well as literary heritage and essays/articles on poetry. Since autumn 2010 "Okno" has also been publishing fiction, e.g. novellas, short stories and fragments of novels. The magazine is currently edited by Anatoly Kudryavitsky, a distant relative of Mikhail Zetlin, and has some well-established poets, e.g. Konstantin Kedrov, Sergey Biryukov and Elena Katsuba, on the editorial board. Dmitri Bavilsky, the prominent Russian novelist and critic, joined the editorial team as the fiction editor in summer 2010.
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Zrelishcha ZRELISHCHA ("ЗРЕЛИЩА") was a Russian language Soviet illustrated weekly theatre journal. Published in Moscow from May to August 1922 under the name "Hermitage" (Russian: "Эрмитаж") (15 editions); from August 1922 to June 1924 (89 editions) as "Zrelishcha". The journal published a chronicle of cultural events in Moscow with a focus on theatre, dance, opera, circus and music-hall. The journal regularly featured critical reviews, correspondence and discussion on avant-garde cultural activities in the Soviet Union and abroad. Edited by  theatre critic Lev Kolpakchi, the journal was associated with the work of V. Ardov, B. Bebutov, O. Brik, P. Markov, V. Meyerhold, S. Yutkevich, A. , B. , S, Tretyakov, and others. Many writers of the journal published under pseudonyms. The journal editors expressed affiliation to the Left Front of the Arts (Russian:"Левый фронт искусств") and the journal served as forum for the discussion and critique of Constructivist theatre, Formalism and the methods of dialectical materialism. The journal's position in regards to revolutionary cultural production, as set out in one of the first issues, was the "study the material characteristics and methods for its organization, the creation of a science of art, the transformation of art into a scientifically-organized mode of production."
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The Bathhouse The Bathhouse (Баня, Banya) is a play by Vladimir Mayakovsky written in 1929, for the Meyerhold Theatre. It was published for the first time in the November, No.11 issue of "Oktyabr" magazine and released as a book by Gosizdat in 1930. The play premiered at the People's House's Drama Theatre, in Leningrad on January 30, 1930. The "6-act drama with the circus and the fireworks" (according to the subtitle), satirizing bureaucratic stupidity and opportunism under Joseph Stalin, evoked strong criticism in the Soviet press, particularly from the Russian Association of Proletarian Writers.
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Victor Shenderovich Victor Anatolievich Shenderovich (Russian: Ви́ктор Анато́льевич Шендеро́вич ) (born August 15, 1958 in Moscow, Russia) is a popular Russian satirist, writer, scriptwriter and radio host. In 1980, Shenderovich graduated from the Moscow State Art and Cultural University, specialising in "direction of volunteer theatrical groups". He is best known as a scriptwriter of popular political puppet show "Kukly" (Puppets) which was aired on NTV 1994 to 2002. He hosted satirical author program "Total" on NTV 1997 to 2001 and TV-6 in 2002. Later, Shenderovich ran a weekly program "Processed Cheese" on the Echo of Moscow radio station. The texts of this program's editions were later collected in his book "Better two heads than one. Duumvirate times chronicle", implying Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. Nowadays Shenderovich is a columnist of "The New Times", a liberal Russian weekly.
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Joseph Stalin Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (18 December 1878 – 5 March 1953) was a Georgian-born Soviet revolutionary and political leader. Governing the Soviet Union as its dictator from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953, he served as General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1952 and as Premier of the Soviet Union from 1941 to 1953. Ideologically a Marxist and a Leninist, Stalin helped to formalise these ideas as Marxism–Leninism while his own policies became known as Stalinism.
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Prague Manifesto The Prague Manifesto (in Russian: Пражский Манифест) is a document that was created by several members of the Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia, an anti-communist coalition of former Soviet military and citizens who aimed to overthrow Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and establish a non-communist government in Russia, in alliance with Nazi Germany during the Second World War.
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Moscow Pushkin Drama Theatre The Moscow Pushkin Drama Theatre is a theatre company in Moscow created in 1950 on the base of Alexander Tairov's Chamber Theatre, which was founded in 1914 and shut down in 1949 for ideological reasons. The theatre is based in the Russian capital's centre, at Tverskoy Boulevard, 23.
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Russian Theatre, Riga The Mikhail Chekhov Riga Russian Theatre, colloquially referred to as the Russian Theatre, is a Russian-language theatre in Riga, Latvia.
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Russian Army Theatre The Central Academic Theatre of the Russian Army (Russian: Центральный академический театр Российской армии) is the largest theatre in Moscow. It was established in 1929 as the Red Army Theatre, was renamed the "Soviet Army Theatre" in 1951 and has always specialized in war-themed productions.
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Prague Metronome The Metronome is a giant, semi-functional metronome in Letná Park, overlooking the Vltava River and the city center of Prague. It was erected in 1991, on the plinth left vacant by the destruction in 1962 of an enormous monument to former Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. The 75 ft Metronome is now mostly a scenic vista and a meeting place for young people. It was designed by international artist Vratislav Novak.
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Rolan Bykov Rolan Antonovich Bykov (Russian: Рола́н Анто́нович Бы́ков ; October 12, 1929 – October 6, 1998) was a Soviet and Russian actor, theatre and film director, screenwriter, educator at High Courses for Scriptwriters and Film Directors, poet and song writer, as well as a politician and a banker. He was awarded People's Artist of the USSR in 1990.
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Vladimir Stavsky Vladimir Petrovich Stavsky (Владимир Петрович Ставский; born Kirpichnikov, Кирпичников; July 30, 1900 – November 14, 1943) was a Soviet Russian writer, editor (in 1937–1941, of "Novy Mir") and literary administrator, the head of the Soviet Union of Writers in 1936–1941. As World War II broke out, Stavsky relinquished his posts and, as a war correspondent for "Pravda" newspaper, went first to Mongolia then to the Winter War (where he was severely injured) and finally to the Western front where in 1943 he was killed in combat.
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Novaya Opera Theatre The Kolobov Novaya Opera Theatre of Moscow (Russian: Новая Опера ) ("novaya" means "new") is a theatre in Moscow, located at 3 Karetny Ryad. It was founded in 1991 by Russian conductor Yevgeny Kolobov and then Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov. It is accessible via metro from Pushkinskaya, Tverskaya or Mayakovskaya.
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Alexander Chudakov Alexander Pavlovich Chudakov (Russian: Алекса́ндр Па́влович Чудако́в ; February 2, 1938, Shchuchinsk – October 3, 2005, Moscow) was a Russian philologist and writer, known for his study of Chekhov, and for the novel "A Gloom is Cast Upon the Ancient Steps", which was awarded the Russian Booker Prize of the decade in 2011.
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Lev Dodin Lev Abramovich Dodin (Russian: Лев Абрамович Додин , born 1944) is a modern Russian theater director, the leader of Saint Petersburg Maly Drama Theater.
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Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge (Russian: Большой Москворецкий мост ) is a concrete arch bridge that spans the Moskva River in Moscow, Russia, immediately east of the Moscow Kremlin. The bridge connects Red Square with Bolshaya Ordynka street in Zamoskvorechye. Built in 1936-1937, it was designed by V. S. Kirillov (structural engineering) and Alexey Shchusev (architectural design).