Azerbaijan State Russian Drama Theater

History

At the end of the 19th century, Russian troupes began to actively perform in Baku. The most famous of these troupes was the theater group led by Polonsky. This troupe performed at the Tagiyev Theater for more than twenty years. The theatre, with its fixed repertoire, props and clothing stores, and many decorative designs, were performing five days a week. With the consent and permission of Polonsky, the building of the Tagiyev Theater was rented to various Azerbaijani theater groups on Fridays.

In February 1918, the building was exposed to a terrible fire. After this accident, the troupe began to collapse. In the spring of 1920, Russia's "Yarasa" theater made a tour of Baku. In April of the same year, the collective collapsed regarding with Red Army's attack. Some members of the troupe did not return to Russia and stayed in Baku. The State Theater of Independent Criticism and Entertainment ("Satiragit") was created in Baku to promote Soviet ideology with the forces of their local actors. Their first performance on the ideology of theater was on December 20, 1920.

The program of the first performances included "Lenin's Rhapsody", "Parrot" and "Karusel" small-scale scenic compositions which were suitable for the variety genre. Changing its repertoire very often, the theater began regular tours to worker districts in Baku. The theatre was renamed the Baku Workers' Theater in 1923 by the decision of the Baku City Executive Committee (in some sources it's called the Baku Russian Workers' Theater).

On October 25, the premiere of the play "The City in the Ring" took place at the theater for the first time. The new troupe consisted of actors who came from Moscow, Odessa, Irkutsk - S. Taneyev, K. Lavretsky, N. Snezhina, L. Litvinova, O. Lanskaya, N. Leshchinskaya, L. Morozova, A. Gorsky, N. Kolomensky, N. Sokolov, S. Klimov, N. Rogozhin and others. The repertoire of the theater was dominated mainly by revolutionary Soviet and foreign drama. From this point of view, "Lyubov Yarovaya" (Konstantin Trenyov), "Armored train 14-69" (Vsevold Ivanov), "Attack" (Vladimir Bill-Beloserkovski), "Bread" and "City of Winds" (Vladimir Kirshon) (Vsevold Vishnevski), "Mom" (Maxim Gorky), "My friend" and "Speed" (Nikolay Pogodin), "Intervensia" (Lev Slavin), "Plato's Crepe" and "Eskradron's Destruction" (Alexander Korneychuk) "(Vasili Gusev)," The Handbag "(Alexey Fayko) took a special place in the theater's creativity.

Repertoire

Plays primarily to works of Russian literary figures such as Tolstoy, Pushkin, Chekov, Gogol, Lermontov, Mayakovsky, Lavrenyov, as well as Azerbaijani literary figures such as Jafar Jabbarli, Mirza Fatali Akhundov, Ali bey Huseynzade, Najaf bey Vazirov, Huseyn Javid, and also the works of other world literary figures such as Shakespeare, Schiller, Molière, Dumas, Hugo, Balzac, are staged in the theater in Russian. The theater makes performances not just for adults, but for children too.

Tours

On October 25, 2013, Azerbaijan State Russian Drama Theater toured Moscow. The actors of the theater performed the famous comedy of Mirza Fatali Akhundzade, entitled "Monsieur Jordan and Dervish Mesteli Shah" at the Russian State Academic Theater. After this trip, staff of the Azerbaijan State Russian Drama Theater toured Vilnius, Lithuania.

In 2015, the theater toured St. Petersburg to perform "Masquerade" play by Lermontov and "Phaedra" by Jean Racine on the scene of the State Satire Theater on Vasilevsky.

Directors

Iran Tagi-zade - Honored Artist of Azerbaijan.

Troupes

People's Artists of Azerbaijan

Haji Muradov Yagizarov

Lyudmila Duxovnaya

Evgenia Nevmerzhitskaya

Safa Mirzahasanov

Mabud Maherramov

Alexandra Nikushina

Fakhraddin Manafov

Natalia Sharovskaya

Honored Artists of Azerbaijan

Natalia Balieva

Ayan MirKasimova

Fuad Osmanov

Firdovsi Atakishiyev

Melek Abbaszadeh

Elena Spitsina

Naina Ibragimova

Elmira Aslanova

Painters

Alexander Fedorov (Honored Worker of Culture of Azerbaijan)

Olga Abbasova (Honored Worker of Culture of Azerbaijan)

Repertoires

Performances for adults

Athens evenings

Ali and Nino

Sunset Boulevard

In the crystal palace

Pride and Prejudice

Lie detector

Elchin: Hell lodgers.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky: The Brothers Karamazov, family chronicles.

Marriage

Casanova: Love Lessons

Masquerade

Meme

He, she, the window ... lover

Autumn Sonata

Petersburg lender

Signor Todero-bully

Get away from my dreams (Tahmina and Zaur)

M.F Akhundzadeh: "Monsieur Jordan, a learned botanist, and dervish Mastalishah, the famous sorcerer", a comedy.

Ceremony

Nizami Ganjavi: "Seven beauties"

Ceremony

For children

Valentina Reznikova: "By the Pike Command", a fairy tale.

Vladimir Neverov: "Guess a fairy tale-1", a fairy tale.

Vladimir Neverov: "Guess a fairy-tale-5", a fairy tale.