Graduates of Moscow University as Outstanding Figures of the Russian Theater of the Second Half of the 19th Century

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of the multifaceted activities of graduates of Imperial Moscow University: playwrights, writers, publishers, actors, singers, directors, who made an outstanding contribution to the development of Russian artistic culture and Russian theater in the middle and second half of the 18th century.

Based on archival data on the history of Moscow University, "Dramatic Dictionary" (1787) and "Dramatic Album" (1850), as well as several editions of the plays written in the second half of the 18th century, the author represents the wide range of roles that graduates of Moscow University played in the history of the Russian stage.

The author uses a complex approach to studying the materials and uses textual, iconographic and art criticism analysis. This allows for an in-depth studying and describing how significant and complex the contribution of university students and graduates was to the development of theatrical business in Russia. Not only playing, singing and staging were their main activities, but also writing and translating for their university theatre. Due to this the development of domestic theatrical art was enhanced; so was writing drama in the Russian language and translating drama into Russian.

The author concludes that outstanding graduates of Moscow University undertook an intense activity in running the university theatre, which contributed greatly to the formation of professional Russian theater, drama and music, and, generally, to Russian education.

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