Originally published in 1914 in "Stolitsa i Usad'ba", the former Director of the Theater, under three Tsars, Asinkrit Lomachyevskii, recounts the the brilliant history of the summer season theater, located nearby the field of maneuvers of the Imperial Guard Regiments, including backstories and tense moments.
With photographic addendum and extracts from the memoir of Prima Ballerina Assoluta, Matilda Kshesinskaya, who danced there, while being the favorite of Tsesarevich Nikolai Alexandrovich.
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By Stephen R. de Angelis, Ph.D.
