Moscow Gorky Academic Art Theatre () is a drama theatre in Moscow, founded in 1987 after the division of the Moscow Art Theatre into two theatres. It is named after the Russian writer Maxim Gorky. The president — founder, former artistic director and former director — People's Artist of the USSR Tatiana Doronina. The director — Vladimir Abramovich Kekhman.

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The theatre was founded in 1987, after the Minister of Culture of the Soviet Union,

Vasily Zakharov Vasily Georgievich Zakharov (; 5 January 1934 – 17 October 2023) was a Soviet and Russian economist who served as the minister of culture between 1986 and 1989 in the Soviet Union. He was a member of central committee of the Communist Party. ...

, signed Order No. 383, according to which the

Moscow Art Theatre The Moscow Art Theatre (or MAT; , ''Moskovskiy Hudojestvenny Akademicheskiy Teatr'' (МHАТ) was a theatre company in Moscow. It was founded in by the seminal Russian theatre practitioner Konstantin Stanislavski, together with the playwright ...

was officially divided into two theaters: the Gorky Moscow Art Theater under the direction of Tatyana Doronina and the

Moscow Chekhov Art Theatre Moscow Chekhov Art Theatre () is a drama theatre in Moscow founded in 1987 after the division of the Gorky Moscow Art Theatre into two theatres. Since 1989, it has been named after Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, one of its main authors. In 2004, it ret ...

under the direction of its first artistic director Oleg Efremov. The "Doronina" Moscow Art Theater retained the official name of M. Gorky, given to the theater in 1932, and the "Efremov" one was given the name of A. P. Chekhov in 1989 (see A. P. Chekhov Moscow Art Theater). The split of the Moscow Art Theater in 1987 was caused by a conflict of ideas about artistic activity that arose in the theater's management in 1970, after the appointment of Oleg Efremov to the post of artistic director of the Moscow Art Theater of the USSR. The Gorky Moscow Art Theatre, often called the "Doroninsky Moscow Art Theatre" after the actress who headed the new theatre, was considered conservative. On December 4, 2018, producer and theatre director Eduard Boyakov was appointed artistic director of the theatre. The founder of the theatre, Tatyana Doronina, was transferred to the specially created position of president of the theatre. Honored Artist of the Russian Federation Sergey Puskepalis became deputy director of the theatre for creative work, and writer and publicist

Zakhar Prilepin Yevgeny Nikolayevich Prilepin (; born 7 July 1975), writing as Zakhar Prilepin (), and sometimes using another pseudonym, Yevgeny Lavlinsky (), is a Russian writer, politician and paramilitary leader. He was a member of Russia's National Bolsh ...

was appointed deputy artistic director for literary work. On August 16, 2019, Sergey Puskepalis left the artistic management of the Gorky Moscow Art Theatre in connection with his appointment to the position of artistic director of the Volkov Theatre. The executive director of the theatre from September 16, 2019 to February 2021 was Tatyana Lvovna Yaroshevskaya. Then, Oleg Stanislavovich Mikhailov served as acting director until October 27, 2021, when Vladimir Kekhman was appointed general director of the theater.

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