What Russian cabaret didVladimir Sirin write for in 1923?
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Carrousel (booklet) Carrousel is a booklet published in 1987 containing three short texts written by Vladimir Nabokov in 1923 for "Karussel", a Russian cabaret.
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Vladimir Nabokov Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov ( ; Russian: Влади́мир Влади́мирович Набо́ков , ] , also known by the pen name Vladimir Sirin; (April 22nd, 1899 — July 2nd, 1977) was a Russian-American novelist and entomologist. His first nine novels were in Russian, but he achieved international prominence after he began writing English prose.
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Raskolnikow (film) Raskolnikow is a 1923 German silent drama film directed by Robert Wiene. The film is based on the novel "Crime and Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, whose protagonist is Rodion Raskolnikov. The film's art direction is by André Andrejew.
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Sergei Lyapunov Sergei Mikhailovich Lyapunov (or Liapunov; Russian: Серге́й Миха́йлович Ляпуно́в , ] ; 30 November [O.S. 18 November] 1859 8 November 1924) was a Russian composer and pianist.
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Rostov State Musical Theater Rostov State Musical Theater (Russian: Ростовский государственный музыкальный театр ) is one of the biggest musical theaters in Southern Russia. It is situated in the city of Rostov-on-Don, one of the oldest cultural centers of Southern Russia. The theater opened in September 1999, and is the successor to the 1919 Rostov Musical Comedy Theater, one of the best operetta theaters in the Soviet Union.
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Zaza (play) Zaza is a French-language play written by playwrights Pierre Berton and Charles Simon, and staged for the first time at the Théâtre du Vaudeville in Paris, in May 1898. The title character is a prostitute who becomes a music hall entertainer and the mistress of a married man.
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Nikolay Oleynikov Nikolay Makarovich Oleynikov (Russian: Никола́й Мака́рович Оле́йников ; born 5 August 1898, d. 24 November 1937) was a Russian editor, avant-garde poet and playwright who was arrested and executed by the Soviets for subversive writing. During his writing career, he also used the pen names Makar Svirepy, Nikolai Makarov, Sergey Kravtsov, NI chief engineer of the mausoleums, Kamensky and Peter Shortsighted.
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A Life for the Tsar A Life for the Tsar (Russian: Жизнь за царя , "Zhizn' za tsarya"), as it is known in English, although in Soviet times its name was "Ivan Susanin" (Russian: Иван Сусанин ) is a "patriotic-heroic tragic opera" in four acts with an epilogue by Mikhail Glinka. The original Russian libretto, based on historical events, was written by Nestor Kukolnik, Egor Fyodorovich (von) Rozen, Vladimir Sollogub and Vasily Zhukovsky. It premiered on 27 November 1836 OS (9 December NS) at the Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre in St. Petersburg. The historical basis of the plot involves Ivan Susanin, a patriotic hero of the early 17th century who gave his life in the expulsion of the invading Polish army for the newly elected Tsar Mikhail, the first of the Romanov dynasty, elected in 1613.
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Boris Pasternak Boris Leonidovich Pasternak ( ; Russian: Бори́с Леони́дович Пастерна́к ; ] ) (10 February [O.S. 29 January] 1890 30 May 1960) was a Soviet Russian poet, novelist, and literary translator. In his native Russian, Pasternak's first book of poems, "My Sister, Life" (1917), is one of the most influential collections ever published in the Russian language. Pasternak's translations of stage plays by Goethe, Schiller, Calderón de la Barca and Shakespeare remain very popular with Russian audiences.
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Vissarion Shebalin Vissarion Yakovlevich Shebalin (Russian: Виссарио́н Я́ковлевич Шебали́н; 11 June [O.S. 29 May] 1902 29 May 1963) was a Soviet composer.
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Yar (restaurant) The Yar (Russian: Яр , from French ""yard"") was a restaurant and theatre in 19th Century Moscow frequented by Pushkin, Tolstoy, Chekhov and Maxim Gorky. It was famous for its Sokolovsky gypsy choir. The Yar ran from 1826 to 1925 on the street known as Kuznetsky Most.
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Alexander Yuzhin Alexander Ivanovich Yuzhin (1857-1927) was a stage name of the Georgian Prince Sumbatov (Sumbatashvili), who dominated the Malyi Theatre of Moscow at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. He was best known for the Romantical parts in the dramas by Schiller and Victor Hugo but also penned a number of plays himself. Yuzhin lived on to become one of the first "People's Artists of the Republic" in 1922.
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Osip Senkovsky Osip Ivanovich Senkovsky (Russian: "Осип Иванович Сенковский" ), born Józef Julian Sękowski (31 March [O.S. 19 March] 1800 in Antagonka, near Vilnius – 16 March [O.S. 4 March] 1858 in Saint Petersburg), was a Polish-Russian orientalist, journalist, and entertainer.
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Olesya (Kuprin) Olesya (Russian: Олеся ) is a novelette by Alexander Kuprin written in late 1897 – early 1898 and serialized in "Kievlyanin" newspaper in October 30 – November 17, 1898. "Olesya", the most acclaimed piece of his Polesye cycle, did much to build Kuprin's literary reputation and warranted his move to Saint Petersburg.
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Vladimir Rebikov Vladimir Ivanovich Rebikov (Russian: Влади́мир Ива́нович Ре́биков, "Vladi'mir Iva'novič Re'bikov" ; born May 31 [OS May 19] 1866 - Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, Russia — died October 1, 1920 - Yalta, Crimea, Ukraine) was a late romantic 20th-century Russian composer and pianist.
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Prince Igor Prince Igor (Russian: Князь Игорь , "Knyaz' Igor'") is an opera in four acts with a prologue, written and composed by Alexander Borodin. The composer adapted the libretto from the Ancient Russian epic "The Lay of Igor's Host", which recounts the campaign of Rus' prince Igor Svyatoslavich against the invading Cuman ("Polovtsian") tribes in 1185. He also incorporated material drawn from two medieval Kievan chronicles. The opera was left unfinished upon the composer's death in 1887 and was edited and completed by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Alexander Glazunov. It was first performed in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1890.
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Locksmith and Chancellor Locksmith and Chancellor (Russian: Слесарь и Канцлер , "Slesar i kantsler " ) is a 1923 Soviet silent film directed by Vladimir Gardin based on the play of Anatoli Lunacharsky.
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Lev Okhotin Lev Pavlovich Okhotin (Russian: Лев Па́влович Охоти́н ; 1911–1948) was a member of the Supreme Council of the Russian Fascist Party, founded by exiles in Manchuria.
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Yuz Aleshkovsky Iosif Efimovich Aleshkovsky (Russian: Ио́сиф Ефи́мович Алешко́вский ), known as Yuz Aleshkovsky (Russian: Юз Алешко́вский ) (born September 21, 1929), is a modern Russian writer, poet, playwright and performer of his own songs.
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Platonov (play) Platonov (Russian: Платонов , also known as "Fatherlessness" and "A Play Without a Title") is the name in English given to an early, untitled play in four acts written by Anton Chekhov in 1878. It was the first large-scale drama by Chekhov, written specifically for Maria Yermolova, rising star of Maly Theatre. Yermolova rejected the play and it was not published until 1923.
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About That About That (Про это) is a poem by Vladimir Mayakovsky written during the self-imposed two-months "exile" after a row with Lilya Brik. It was finished on 11 February 1923 and published on 29 March 1923, originally by the "LEF" magazine. The poem's first separate edition was illustrated by Alexander Rodchenko who in his montages used photographs made by Mayakovsky and Lilya Brik.
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Mikhail Zoshchenko Mikhail Mikhailovich Zoshchenko (Russian: Михаи́л Миха́йлович Зо́щенко ; August 9 [O.S. July 28] 1894 – July 22, 1958) was a Soviet author and satirist.