Voronezh Public Theatre
Revolution Avenue, 55, Voronezh, Voronezh region, Russia.
About the company:
Voronezh Public Theatre is one of the oldest in Russia. It is located in Voronezh, at the address Revolution Avenue, 55 in the former house of V.A. Chertkov, where the comic opera by M. Sokolovsky “Melnik is a sorcerer, a deceiver and a matchmaker” was shown.
It was founded in 1820, and in 1821 the construction of a new theater building began. Since 1919, the theater was renamed the Voronezh Bolshoi Soviet Theatre. In 1942, the building was destroyed by bombing, but in 1944 it was restored. In 1959, the Voronezh State Drama Theatre was named after Alexei Vasilyevich Koltsov.
In the theater worked such directors as M.A. Gersht, A.Y. Varshavsky, S.N. Voronov actors: M. Shchepkin, P.I. Vishnyakov, S.Shumsky, M.N. Ermolov, V. Davydov, V. Komissarzhevskaya, V.A. Sedov, V. Gilyarovskiy, A. Ostuzhev.