The State Academic Drama Theater named after VF Komissarzhevskaya is located in the center of St. Petersburg, on the adjacent Italian Art Square. V. F. Komissarzhevskaya. Its fate is unique and keeps a mark of turbulent eras of the last hundred and fifty years. Born in the days of the siege, the theater is close in spirit to St. Petersburg, the only city in the world history built during the war.

The history of the theater building in which he lives 70 years . The happy idea to build an indoor shopping arcade - a passage - which was numerous in London and Paris, came to the head of the collegiate councilor, Count Yakov Essen-Stenbock-Fermor . The highest order issued permission for the construction of the Passage was received . So, in May 1848, under the unique project of the architect Rudolf Zhelyazevich, Nevsky Prospekt was connected to the Italian street by a three-tiered gallery covered with glass, where shops and pastry shops, a wax room, "mechanical and anatomical theater", "live pictures" in the upper floors, a restaurant in the cellar and a large auditorium .

The history of the theater hall is consecrated by the name of the great dramatic actress Vera Fedorovna Komissarzhevskaya. After leaving the state, the imperial stage of the Alexandrinsky Theater, she opened her own Drama Theater, on the stage of which she played modern heroines from the plays of G. Ibsen, M. Gorky, "Znaniev" E. Chirikov and S. Naidenov, G. Hauptmann, A. Chekhov. The directorate included the directors of the Moscow Art Theater N. Popov, I. Tikhomirov, later N. Arbatov, actor K. Bravich, N. Krasov.

At the most severe time of the blockade, the theater strengthened the spirit in man and helped to survive. The Leningraders called it the Blockade. The curtain rose. On the stage are Russian people. They are in the overcrowded auditorium - in greatcoats, sailors' jackets, in working clothes and quilted jackets. The Leningradians perceive the play "Russian People" by K. Simonov as a living story, as a tale of their own thoughts and feelings.

Theater repertoire

Since 1992, artistic director of the St. Petersburg State Academic Drama Theater . In . @ F .Komissarzhevskaya was Viktor Novikov, who has worked in the era zavlitom P . . Agamirzian His theater is open to new ideas, so here put on plays young directors . Invitation for setting various directors attached to the internal mobility of the creative team, is the guarantor of artistic novelty . Theater produces four performances per season . It is important that the audience and the creators of the play received the joy of contact with the literary material . a vivid evidence of this - the performances of Alexander Morfova "Don Juan "," Baal "," Midsummer Night's Dream ". The attraction carnival ease these performances is akin to magic theater language in which it is also possible interpenetration of real and fictional, comic and tragic .

variety of genres in the range of theater. On the playbill - lyrical comedies, dramas and tragicomedies - each generation can choose their performance.

Useful information

Opening hours: from 11:00 to 19:00. Break: from 15-00 to 16-00.

Addresses: St. Petersburg, ul. Italianskaya, 19; tel .: +7 (812) 311-31-02.