The Komissarzhevskaya Theatre () is a theatre in

Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the List of cities and towns in Russia by population, second-largest city in Russia after Moscow. It is situated on the Neva, River Neva, at the head of the Gulf of Finland ...

, Russia. It is named after

Vera Komissarzhevskaya Vera Fyodorovna Komissarzhevskaya (; 8 November 1864 – 23 February 1910) was one of the most celebrated actresses and theatre managers of the late Russian Empire. She made her professional debut in 1893, after having acted as an amateur at Co ...

History

It was founded in 1942 as the City Theatre (at the time, the city, then Leningrad, was besieged by the German army. It then became the Blockade Theatre, or, as it is sometimes translated, the Besieged Theatre). The company was legitimized as a drama theatre in 1943. It was renamed after V.F. Komissarzhevskaya in 1959, and granted academic status in 1994. It is located in the former “Passage Hall” of the elite department store

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. The same building housed many theatre companies before 1942, most notably, the ''Komissarzhevskaya Theatre'' (), a private theatre under the directorship by V.F. Komissarzhevskaya herself, in 1904–1906 (this troupe operated in 1904–1909).

Notable actors

* Boris Sohn (1948 - 1966) *

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(1948 - 1953) *

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(1957 - 1961) * Sergei Boyarsky (1948 - 1976) *

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(1973 - 1995) *

Viktor Ilichyov Viktor Grigorievich Ilichyov (; 5 February 1946 — 8 October 2010) was a Soviet actor. He appeared in more than seventy films from 1967 to 2006. He lived in the United States of America beginning in 1992. Selected filmography Viktor Ilichyov en ...

(1973 - 1975) * Viktor Chistiakov (parodist) (1966 - 1971) *

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(1948 - 1982) *

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(1965 - current) * Galina Korotkevich (1962 - 2021†) * Anatoli Khudoleev (1975 - current) * Georgi Korolchuk (1970 - current) * Tamara Abrosimova * Yevgeniya Igumnova * Sergey Byzgu

References

External links

Official website of the Komissarzhevskaya Theatre
(in Russian) Theatres in Saint Petersburg {{Europe-theat-stub