State Pushkin Theatre Center in St. Petersburg

Established by the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation in 1992 on the eve of the 200th anniversary of the birth of A.S. Pushkin, the Center develops a fundamentally new cultural strategy of the Russian theater - the Pushkin Theater, promotes the Pushkin repertoire on the modern stage. The center appeared as a possible answer to one of the pressing problems and mysteries of the Russian stage, called the Pushkin Theatre, in order to move the Russian theater in this direction, find forces and ways of movement, develop a methodology, a tradition, and finally create a Pushkin theater school. Head of the Center - Vladimir Recepter - actor, director, poet, prose writer, playwright, winner of the State Prize of the Russian Federation, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation. For ten years (April 27, 2002 - the anniversary), the Pushkin Center has realized itself as a unique creative organization that successfully combines four types of activity - theatrical, festival, publishing and pedagogical.