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Russian State Drama Theatre for two and a half centuries served as an attribute of the Russian statehood. In the 18th , 19th and early 20th centuries it was the main imperial theater, which involved the fate of Russian emperors .

Since 1832 the Russian State Drama Theatre was a magnificent building in the heart of Nevsky Prospekt in St. Petersburg , designed by the great architect Carlo Rossi. This building was named Aleksandrinsky theater (in honor of the wife of Emperor Nicholas I, Alexandra ) and since then the name Aleksandrinsky theater is inextricably linked with the history of the performing arts world . A unique complex of buildings with five-tiered auditorium , a huge stage, ceremonial palace foyer, a grand façade , which became one of the emblems of the northern capital, is among the gems of world architecture, are registered by UNESCO.

Walls Aleksandrinsky theater store mash the great figures of the Russian state, politicians, military leaders , cultural figures . Here there AS Pushkin, M. Lermontov, NV Gogol, Turgenev, Dostoyevsky , LN Tolstoy , AP Chekhov , PI Tchaikovsky AM Gorchakov , SY Witte , VA Stolypin , KG Mannerheim , many crowned heads of European states.

It was here, at the Alexandrinsky Theatre premiered almost all works of the classics of Russian dramatic "Woe from Wit " AS Griboyedov to pieces AN Ostrovsky and AP Chekhov. Alexandrinsky Theatre - is a history book Russian theater. It is at this stage playing the famous Russian actors - from Karatygina and V. Martynov to N.Simonova , N. Cherkasova , V. Merkureva , I. Gorbachev B.Freyndliha . The scene was decorated gifts from famous Russian actresses E. Semenova , M. Savina ( founder of the Union of theatrical figures of Russia ) , Komissarzhevskaya to - Korchagina E. Alexander , Tim E. , N. Urgant . Today Alexandrinsky Theatre work such artists as S.Parshin , Smirnov , N.Marton , G.Karelina , I.Volkov , S.Smirnova , S.Sytnik , M.Kuznetsova etc.

In the theater worked great theater directors Sun Meyerhold L.Viven , G. Kozintsev , G. Tovstonogov Akimov . Today Aleksandrinsky theater runs a famous director , People's Artist of Russia , laureate of State Prize Valery Fokin . Performances Alexandrinsky went into all the world encyclopedia of theater. With great artists collaborated theater A. Benoit , K. Korovin, A. Golovin , N. Altman , famous composers Alexander Glazunov , Shostakovich , R. Shchedrin .