Tula Academic Theatre
Tula Academic Theatre () is a theatre in Tula, Russia, principally associated with the production of plays. Established in 1777 and operating on its present site since 1970. Tula Academic Theatre positions itself as a traditional drama theatre that produces classical heritage plays. In 1989 Alexandr Popov became the director, his rule lasting for more than twenty years, up until his death in 2011.The theatre's brightest stars included Sofia Sotnichevskaya Sofia Vladimirovna Sotnichevskaya (russian: Софья Владимировна Сотничевская, 8 May 1916 — 12 December 2011) is a Soviet and Russian theatre actress. Sotnichevskaya was born in Petrograd. In 1940, she graduated from ..., Boris Zavolokin, Olga Krasikova, Vitaly Bazin, Evgenia Pchelkina and Natalia Savchenko. References External links Official website {{coord missing, Russia Theatres in Tula ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Tula, Russia
Tula ( rus, Тула, p=ˈtulə) is the largest city and the administrative center of Tula Oblast in Russia, located south of Moscow. Tula is located in the northern Central Russian Upland on the banks of the Upa River, a tributary of the Oka. At the 2010 census, Tula had a population of 501,169, an increase from 481,216 in 2002, making it the 32nd largest city in Russia by population. A primarily industrial city, Tula was a fortress at the border of the Principality of Ryazan. The city was seized by Ivan Bolotnikov, and withstood a four-month siege by the Tsar's army. Historically, Tula was a major centre for the manufacture of armaments. The Demidov family built the first armament factory in Russia in the city, in what would become the Tula Arms Plant, which still operates to this day. Tula is home to the Klokovo air base, Tula State University, Tula Kremlin, The Tula State Museum of Weapons and Kazanskaya embankment of the Upa River (). Tula has a historical ass ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Russia
Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. It is the largest country in the world, with its internationally recognised territory covering , and encompassing one-eighth of Earth's inhabitable landmass. Russia extends across eleven time zones and shares land boundaries with fourteen countries, more than any other country but China. It is the world's ninth-most populous country and Europe's most populous country, with a population of 146 million people. The country's capital and largest city is Moscow, the largest city entirely within Europe. Saint Petersburg is Russia's cultural centre and second-largest city. Other major urban areas include Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg, Nizhny Novgorod, and Kazan. The East Slavs emerged as a recognisable group in Europe between the 3rd and 8th centuries CE. Kievan Rus' arose as a state in the 9th century, and in 988, it adopted Orthodox Christianity from the ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Drama
Drama is the specific Mode (literature), mode of fiction Mimesis, represented in performance: a Play (theatre), play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on Radio drama, radio or television.Elam (1980, 98). Considered as a genre of poetry in general, the dramatic mode has been contrasted with the Epic poetry, epic and the Lyric poetry, lyrical modes ever since Aristotle's ''Poetics (Aristotle), Poetics'' (c. 335 BC)—the earliest work of dramatic theory. The term "drama" comes from a Ancient Greek, Greek word meaning "deed" or "Action (philosophy), act" (Classical Greek: , ''drâma''), which is derived from "I do" (Classical Greek: , ''dráō''). The two masks associated with drama represent the traditional Genre, generic division between Comedy (drama), comedy and tragedy. In English (as was the analogous case in many other European languages), the word ''Play (theatre), play'' or ''game'' (translating the Old English, Anglo-Saxon ''pleġan'' or Latin ''l ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Sofia Sotnichevskaya
Sofia Vladimirovna Sotnichevskaya (russian: Софья Владимировна Сотничевская, 8 May 1916 — 12 December 2011) is a Soviet and Russian theatre actress. Sotnichevskaya was born in Petrograd. In 1940, she graduated from Voronezh Teatral College. From 1964 to 2003 she was an actress of the Tula Academic Theatre. In 1962, she was named a Honored Artist of the RSFSR. Sotnichevskaya died on 12 December 2011, aged 95, in Tula Tula may refer to: Geography Antarctica *Tula Mountains *Tula Point India *Tulā, a solar month in the traditional Indian calendar Iran * Tula, Iran, a village in Hormozgan Province Italy * Tula, Sardinia, municipality (''comune'') in the pr .... She was buried in Tula in Smolenskoye Cemetery. References 1916 births Soviet stage actresses Russian stage actresses Honored Artists of the RSFSR 2011 deaths Actresses from Tula, Russia 20th-century Russian women {{russia-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |