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A widowed old man lived alone with his daughter, Morozko. One day, the old man married a woman with a daughter of her own. One freezing winter day, the woman ordered the old man to take Morozko into ...
Once upon a time, Alyonushka and Ivanushka set out on a very long journey. Ivanushka became thirsty and drank from a lake near a flock of goats, and turned into a baby goat. As Alyonushka sat on the ...
Once upon a time a powerful Tsar had three sons, named Dmitry, Vasily, and Ivan. They all lived together in a magnificent palace surrounded by a beautiful garden in which grew golden apples. One day ...
The mice suffered no end of woes from the cat. One day, the cat was lying asleep. The mice thought that it had died and decided to hold a splendid funeral for the cat and a celebration for themselves...
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s opera Sadko was inspired by the bylina of Sadko and premiered at Savva Mamontov’s Russian Private Opera in Moscow on 26 December 1897. The sets were designed by Konstantin K...
Molière’s comedy Le Médecin Volant was staged in the garden of the People’s House in summer 1921 and the Iron Hall (premiere 29 December 1921) of the Theatre of National Comedy. Between late 1919 and...
A production of Joseph Martin Kraus’ operetta Pantomime was directed by Nikolai Smolich and premiered at the Maly Theatre of Opera on 15 January 1927. The sets were designed by Mikhail Bobyshov, who ...
In 1929, Vladimir Schwartz designed the sets and costumes for Reinhold Glière’s ballet The Red Poppy or what the press called “the first Soviet ballet on a modern revolutionary theme.” The title of t...
Isaac Rabinovich designed the sets and costumes for a production of Till Eulenspiegel at the Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko Theatre of Music in 1931. The artist audaciously reconstructed the architect...
In 1918 and 1919, Alexander Lappo-Danilevsky designed the sets for a performance of Eugen Francis Charles d’Albert’s opera Tiefland at the Theatre of Musical Drama in Petrograd. The opera was directe...