Moscow Art Theatre
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The Moscow Art Theatre was a theatre company in Moscow. It was founded in 1898 by the seminal Russian theatre practitioner Konstantin Stanislavski, together with the playwright and director Vladimir N
Interior of the "Old" MAT in Kamergersky Lane, originally Lianozov Theatre, as rebuilt in 1900–1903 by Fyodor Schechtel with contribution by Anna Golubkina and Ivan Fomin.
The Chekhov Moscow Art Theatre today (Kamergersky Lane, exterior by Fyodor Schechtel).
From left to right: Ivan Moskvin, Konstantin Stanislavski, Feodor Chaliapin, Vasili Kachalov, Saveli Sorine, in the US in 1923.
Playwright Maurice Maeterlinck, whose play The Blue Bird, made its worldwide debut at the theatre
Vasily Kachalov
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Vasily Ivanovich Kachalov, was one of Russia's most renowned actors. He worked closely and often with Konstantin Stanislavski. He led the so-called Kachalov Group within the Moscow Art Theatre. It was
Kachalov in 1935
Kachalov's portrait by Kazimir Malevich
Kachalov and Olga Knipper in Hamlet (1911)