Alexander Sumarokov
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Alexander Petrovich Sumarokov was a Russian poet and playwright who single-handedly created classical theatre in Russia, thus assisting Mikhail Lomonosov to inaugurate the reign of classicism in Russi
Portrait by Anton Losenko
Fyodor Volkov
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Fyodor Grigorievich Volkov was a Russian actor and founder of the first permanent Russian theater.
Alexander Sumarokov
…is regarded as the first regular Russian drama. He ran the first permanent public theatre in the Russian capital, where he worked with the likes of Fyodor Volkov and Ivan Dmitrevsky. His plays were based on the subjects taken from Russian history (Dmitry Samozvanets), proto-Russian legends (Khorev) or on…
Fyodor Volkov by Anton Losenko
Volkov on a 1956 stamp