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Moskovsky Army Theater is located in a grandiose building, which is built in the shape of a pentagonal star. The unique building was erected in 1934-1940 according to the project of architects Vasily Simbirtsev and Karo Alabyan and became not only one of the main masterpieces of the "Stalinist Empire" style, but also the largest stage in Europe.

Big hall Army Theater designed for 2500 spectators, and no other theater of the Old World can compare with it. Over the years, tanks and cavalry rode on this scene, striking the imagination of the audience. The technical equipment allows you to create on stage Army Theater complex stage performances. Interestingly, all 13 lifting mechanisms, created in 1935 by engineer Ivan Maltsin, still work perfectly.

In all years Army Theater famous for its troupe, rightfully considered one of the best in the capital. Today the audience's favorite actors are taking the stage: Vladimir Zeldin, Lyudmila Kasatkina, Vladimir Soshalsky, Larisa Golubkina, Fedor Chekhankov, Lyudmila Chursina.

The theater has its own audience, who highly appreciates the professionalism and talent of directors, artists and set designers, goes to their favorite actors and follows all the premieres. Despite the huge auditorium, tickets to Army Theater can not always be found at the box office and this is undoubtedly the merit of the troupe and the chief director of the theater Boris Morozov.

Today in the repertoire Army Theater classical and modern plays, among which it should be noted "School of Love" by K. Higgins, "Heart is not a stone" and "Late Love" by Alexander Ostrovsky, "Accompanist" by A. Galin, "The Venetian Twins" by Carlo Goldoni, "The Queen's Duel" by D. Murrell and Lope de Vega's Inventive Lover.

Recent premiere has been a success Army Theater- a play for young spectators "The Abduction of the Fairy Princess". And, of course, one cannot but recall the legendary performance “Dance Teacher” by Lope de Vega, which has been on the theater stage since 1946 and has had about 2000 performances.

The productions of the chief director are of great interest in the theatrical environment. Army Theater Boris Morozov. This is a large-scale tragic musical "The Sevastopol March", staged according to "The Sevastopol Tales" by Leo Tolstoy and Alexander Gladkov's comedy "A Long Time ago", written to the music of Tikhon Khrennikov, which was shown in the theater back in the 40s and was restored with young theater actors ...

To mark the 100th anniversary of Dmitry Shostakovich, the theater's repertoire includes the immortal Hamlet, which continued the tradition of Shakespeare's performances Army Theater... Experienced theatergoers remember well the classical performances based on the plays "The Taming of the Shrew", "Macbeth", "A Midsummer Night's Dream", "Othello" and "Much Ado About Nothing".

You can do at any time order tickets in Army Theater on the BiletService website and see a performance of one of the most interesting Moscow theaters.

The huge five-pointed star - the building of the theater of the Red Army - is a monument not only of theatrical architecture. This is a monument to the era of hard trials and great enthusiasm. It was built from 1934 to 1940. The best monumental artists took part in the design of the theater: the frescoes of the acoustic ceiling were painted by Lev Bruni, the reinforced concrete curtain-portal was made according to the sketches of the wonderful graphic artist Vladimir Favorsky by his sons Nikita and Ivan. The plafonds over the buffets in the amphitheater were created by Alexander Deineka and Ilya Feinberg. Picturesque panels by Pavel Sokolov-Skal and Alexander Gerasimov adorned the grand marble staircases. Furniture, shades and chandeliers were made by special orders.

The stage mechanics, designed by engineer Ivan Maltsin, still work practically without repair - two huge circles revolve, and twelve lifting platforms can turn a stage tablet from a stadium into a mountain landscape, helping theater artists to realize all conceivable and unimaginable designs of stage design for performances.

On September 14, 1940, the new building of the theater was opened with the play "Commander Suvorov" by I. Bakhterev and A. Razumovsky - in the Great Hall. Two weeks later, on the Small Stage, the audience saw "The Bourgeoisie" by Maxim Gorky. Since then, these scenes have presented the audience with more than three hundred premieres and about forty-five thousand performances.

Leading the Army Theater from 1935 to 1958, Aleksey Dmitrievich Popov built it as an artistic and distinctive organism, defining the creative credo and program. His passion for harmony, for creating the artistic integrity of the performance, his ability to place in a space that amazed the imagination, folk scenes where human destinies flashed, his simplicity, intelligence, deep human decency, all this for many years determined the level of the Central Academic Theater of the Russian Army. The performances he staged - "Commander Suvorov", "A long time ago", "Admiral's flag", "Stalingradians", "Front", "Wide steppe", have become classics in the history of Russian theatrical art.

The artistic baton from his father was taken by his son - People's Artist of the USSR Andrei Alekseevich Popov, a wonderful artist, director and teacher who headed the theater from 1963 to 1973.

The main directors of the theater in different years were Y. Zavadsky, A. Dunaev, R. Goryaev, Y. Eremin, L. Kheifets, the main designers were N. Shifrin, P. Belov, I. Sumbatashvili.

Here, such wonderful performances as "The Dance Teacher", "The Ocean", "The Holy of Holies" and "The Drummer", "The Death of Ivan the Terrible" and "Paul I", "Mandate" and "Trees Die Standing", "Much Ado About Nothing" and "Sevastopol March", many other plays - classical and modern. Chekhov, Dostoevsky and Ostrovsky, as well as Shakespeare, Lope de Vega, Moliere, Balzac, Brecht, Dreiser, Eduardo de Filippo did not leave the repertoire posters of the Big and Small stages.

The atmosphere of the theater of the Russian Army is permeated with history, the grandeur of the time and modern culture. On February 6, the theater celebrates its birthday. It was on this date in 1930 that a performance on the theme of events on the border with China was shown under the name "K.V.Zh.D."

The next 10 years of the theater's life were in constant travel, premieres were staged in military units in different parts of the country - from Leningrad to the Far East. And only in 1940 the theater got its own new building in Moscow.

In the auditorium, the ceiling is decorated with chic frescoes painted by the outstanding avant-garde artist Lev Bruni. The building itself was created in the Stalinist Empire style. It consists of ten aboveground and ten underground floors. The spacious interiors are finished with natural stone and wood. The walls are decorated with picturesque panels and plafonds over the sideboards. Guests are always greeted by a grand marble staircase.

TSATRA includes the Great Hall for 1520 seats and the Small Hall for 400 seats. The largest stage in Europe has been built in the theater, which makes it possible to simulate battles with cavalry and tanks. The mechanics on the stage have been working perfectly since Soviet times. Huge rotating circles and lifting platforms transform the flat surface into a mountainous landscape.

The modern repertoire of the theater includes classics and contemporaries such as Shakespeare, Andersen, Sarman, Ostrovsky, A. Tolstoy and many others. Each performance is distinguished by original scenery, brilliant acting and brilliant directorial work.

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