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\n \n KOMISSARZHEVSKAYA THEATRE (19 Italyanskaya Street). Established in 1942 as the City (\"Besieged\") Theatre, being legitimized as a drama theatre in 1943, named after V.F. Komissarzhevskaya in 1959, and granted academic status in 1994. The theatre was opened on the premises of the Comedy Theatre, operated at first in the Maly Opera Theatre, and since 1944 has been on its present premises at the Passage. The company included Leningrad theatre and radio actors who had remained in the besieged city. In 1943-44, the company was augmented by actors from the propaganda unit of the Red Army House and the abolished New Young People's Theatre. The first season’s program was comprised of heroic and patriotic plays by Soviet authors from those days: K.M. Simonov's Russian People and Wait for Me , A.E. Korneychuk's Front, and L.M. Leonov's Invasion. Later, Russian classics tended to be staged, including plays by A.N. Ostrovsky, I.A. Goncharov, and I.S. Turgenev. Despite isolated successful productions (like the romantic interpretation of Don Cesar de Bazan by A.F. d'Ennery and F.F. Dumanois presented by director V.P. Kozhich, which formed the basis of the picture play of the same name), during peaceful times the theatre found it difficult to establish an its artistic identity for quite a long time (for the first 20 yeas of its history there were about 40 directors). M.V. Sulimov, I. S. Olshvanger and others worked as the main directors of the theatre at various times. The peak of company's success came with R. S. Agamirzyan's direction (1966-91), who succeeded in developing a harmonious repertoire, presenting both modern versions of contemporary works (like, I.P. Drutse's Sancta Sanctorum, 1977; and M.F. Shatrov's Blue Horses on Red Grass, 1980) and expressive staging of the classics. The theatre cycle based on A.K. Tolstoy's trilogy (The Death of Ioann the Terrible and Tsar Fedor Ioannovich, 1972; Tsar Boris, 1978) was awarded the State Prize of the USSR (1984). Many of Agamirzyan's productions were created in collaboration with artist E.S. Kochergin, the former main artist of Komissarzhevskaya Theatre. Many outstanding actors worked and continue to work at the theatre, including V.I. Chestnokov, I.P. Dmitriev, S.A. Boyarsky, N.A. Boyarsky, I.B. Dmitriev, E.A. Akulicheva, V.I. Chistyakov, E.A. Popova, O.G. Okulevich, V.V. Osobik, T.M. Abrosimova, G.P. Korotkevich, I.I. Krasko, S.N. Landgraf, B.M. Sokolov, G.A. Korolchuk, V.V. Letenkov, and V.A. Degtyar. Komissarzhevskaya Theatre has abandoned the position of the main director and invites different stage managers for each production. Stagings by V.B. Pazi, Bulgarian director A. Morfova, and others have been the highlight of Petersburg's theatrical life. Currently the theatre's art director is V. A. Novikov, Honoured Worker of Arts of Russia.

References: Ленинградский драматический театр им. В. Ф. Комиссаржевской: Путь театра, спектакли, актеры. Л., 1962; Ленинградский государственный драматический театр им. В. Ф. Комиссаржевской, 1942-1967. Л., 1968.

A. A. Kirillov.\n
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