October 24th, 2016
In July 1894, the Moscow businessman and philanthropist Yakov Shchukin acquired the site of the former mechanical plant, a wasteland and carriage shops in Karetny Ryad, arranging the Hermitage Garden on this site. Previously, a pleasure garden with this name was marked on the maps of the city in the area of Bozhedomka. But its owner, entrepreneur M. Lentovsky, went bankrupt and the park - although it was a popular recreational spot for Muscovites - had to be closed. The fate of the garden with the borrowed name turned out to be happier. The official opening of the new Hermitage took place on June 18, 1895.
Yakov Shchukin in the Hermitage Garden. 1910: https://pastvu.com/p/35648
Yakov Shchukin tried to surprise Muscovites with unusual spectacles, and he succeeded. On May 26, 1896, the city's first film show took place in the garden, showing a ten-minute film by the Lumiere brothers, The Arrival of a Train. New entertainment appeared in Russia five months after the very first film screening in Paris.
Through the efforts of Shchukin, an unsightly corner of Moscow turned into a blooming garden with shady alleys, flower beds, sculptures, gazebos and electric lighting. The proletarian revolution, although it brought dissonance into the measured life of the townspeople, did not get rid of the habit of walking in the garden. Even during the Great Patriotic War The Hermitage was closed for a very short time.
IN Soviet period new lanterns and small architectural forms were installed on the alleys, some of them can still be seen, but the sculptures remained only in old photographs. However, something has been preserved even from the Shchukin times.
1960: https://pastvu.com/p/112428
1964: https://pastvu.com/p/93746
1986: https://pastvu.com/p/170142
Scheme from the site http://www.mosgorsad.ru/ (2016)
An electric lantern for a lamp with an incandescent lamp (made in 1913 at the Ekaterininsky plant in the Polish city of Sosnowitsy). This lantern was restored in 2004.
Summer terrace. 1965: https://pastvu.com/p/35657 B post-war years Garden visitors were attracted by the summer stage, where artists Arkady Raikin, Klavdia Shulzhenko, Lidia Ruslanova performed, and the jazz orchestra of Leonid Utyosov played. The stage is still located in the same place, there are busts of composers Tchaikovsky and Glinka.
In 2000, busts of Dante Alighieri and Victor Hugo, donated to Moscow by the Italian government and the mayor's office of Paris, were installed in the alleys.
The composition "Monument to all lovers", made of metal pipes bent in the shape of a heart, appeared in 2006. Inside this monument are bells that ring in the wind.
You can have a bite to eat in several cafes and restaurants
The garden has always been famous for its theaters, on the stages of which Fyodor Chaliapin, Leonid Sobinov, Antonina Nezhdanova, Maria Yermolova, Vera Komissarzhevskaya, ballerina Anna Pavlova, European stars Sarah Bernhardt, Ernesto Rossi. And now there are three theaters in the garden at once: the Hermitage, the New Opera and the Sphere.
The Hermitage Theatre. 1901-1903: https://pastvu.com/p/335361 oldest building garden
On October 26, 1898, the Moscow Art Public Theater under the direction of Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko (MKhAT) was opened at the Hermitage Theater with the premiere of the play "Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich". This stage also hosted the premieres of Anton Chekhov's plays The Seagull and Uncle Vanya.
Moscow Theater of Miniatures. 1979-1981: https://pastvu.com/p/86438
Scenes from the cult television movie The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed were filmed in the garden. 1978: https://pastvu.com/p/467080 It is a pity that Vladimir Vysotsky, for whom these places were native, did not get into the frame along with Vladimir Konkin. Here the youth of the poet and artist passed. Where are my seventeen years? - On Bolshoi Karetny...
In the early years Soviet power The building of the Hermitage Theater housed the MGSPS Theater (Moscow City Council of Trade Unions), which was later renamed the Mossovet Theater. In 1959, the Moscow Theater of Miniatures, founded by playwright and satirist Viktor Polyakov, moved into the building, and in 1987 artistic director Mikhail Levitin found a new name, more in line with its essence - "The Hermitage".
The theater's credo is amusingly formulated on the official website http://ermitazh.theatre.ru/history/: “Today the garden, with its restaurants, attractions and other mass undertakings, is the center of the “culture and recreation” industry. Unscrupulous people include theaters in it. We do not like this approach; Art put on stream dulls and corrupts. That is why the theater-house, formed by Levitin, does not forget the original meaning of the word "ermitage": a hermit's corner, a place of solitude. The inhabitants of our house (corner) are still closer to hermits than to mass entertainers. We do not "serve" idle spies, but we collect our viewers in order to retire with them in another reality.
Alas, it is impossible to get into the Hermitage Theater in the Hermitage Garden due to the protracted reconstruction historical building. But theatrical life continues and performances are on other Moscow stages, in the 2016 season it is Novy Arbat, 11.
King Lear staged by Mikhail Levitin on the stage of Pyotr Fomenko's Workshop (2014). IN leading role Mikhail Filippov.
Mirror Theatre. 1910: https://pastvu.com/p/35652
In 1909, according to the project of the architect A. Novikov, a building was built summer theater, later called "Mirror". Opera performances of the Russian private opera» Savva Mamontov, where Sergei Rachmaninov made his debut as a conductor.
Mirror Theatre. 1981: https://pastvu.com/p/44234
The first game of intellectuals of the club “What? Where? When?". Well, then there was a period when nightclubs appeared in the Hermitage Garden (the Penthouse was in the Mirror), but over time, opera parts sounded here again. On the site of the pre-revolutionary "Mirror" built a building for " new opera» Evgeny Kolobov, a theater founded in 1991. Among his productions, marked by theater awards, are Eugene Onegin, Rigoletto, Gianni Schicchi, Cat's House. In total, the repertoire of the "New Opera" includes more than seventy works of opera and concert genres.
How the housewarming was prepared, tells the Novaya Opera website http://www.novayaopera.ru/?page=history: “In 1991, by order of the Moscow Government, the building of the Mirror Theater was transferred to the control of the NEW OPERA, and from that time the second life famous theater in the Hermitage Garden. The general contractor for the construction is the Austrian company Lenneks and Moscow builders in short time erected on the site of a dilapidated building a modern Opera theatre. The chief architect of the project, V. Kotelnikov, found an opportunity to preserve the style of the original building, to use individual elements of the decoration of the "Mirror Theater" in the design of the facade of the new building. Chandeliers and curtains made according to sketches folk artist Russia E. Kochergin. The organizers of the project did not limit themselves to the reconstruction of the architectural monument. The new building of the theater is a hall for 660 seats, equipped with modern lighting equipment and stage mechanics, which allow performances with complex stage effects to be staged. It is also a cozy foyer and hall, rooms for artists, modern studio sound recordings, rehearsal rooms, library, administrative services. The opening took place in 1997.
Larisa Dolina, Ekaterina Guseva, Lika Rulla and other artists at the Musical Heart of the Theater awards ceremony at the Novaya Opera
1905-1910: https://pastvu.com/p/369897 Construction of a "winter" theater for 4,000 seats will begin on this site, but it will remain unfinished. Either the authorities forbade Shchukin to build such a bulky structure, or the First World War.
Brick buildings remained around the Shchukin stage, one of which is occupied by the Moscow Theatre of Drama"Sphere", created in 1981 by the decision of the Ministry of Culture of the USSR on the initiative of Ekaterina Elanskaya, who formulated the idea of the theater: "We reject the principle of the theater of the cube with the wall removed and peeping - we affirm the principle of the sphere of communication." At first, the theater was located in the recreation center of the Kauchuk plant on Plyushchikha, but already in 1984 the reconstruction was completed. auditorium theater building in the Hermitage Garden.
The theater hall is a circular amphitheater with a central stage and movable platforms inside it. The architect of the project was Natalia Golas, the main artist - Vladimir Soldatov.
Ekaterina Yelanskaya created performances by bringing together actors different theaters- Alexander Kalyagin, Georgy Taratorkin, Evgenia Simonova, Tatyana Doronina, Evgeny Kindinov, Mikhail Kozakov. Among her productions A little prince» Saint-Exupery, « theatrical romance” Bulgakov, “There, in the distance” by Shukshin, “Comedies” by Zoshchenko, “The Seagull” by Chekhov and others.
As the official website of the theater http://www.spheratheatre.ru/ reports, “the performances of the Spheres did not leave anyone indifferent, causing heated debate among the audience and professional critics - they always seemed so extraordinary and unusual. After the death of Ekaterina Yelanskaya, the theater continues its work under the creative guidance People's Artist Russia Alexander Korshunov, who took a course to continue the work of the "Sphere", the preservation of the aesthetics and principles of this theater. The viewer does not lose interest in the theater "Sphere" - the theater of expressive, lively compositions, frantic dynamics, strong and vivid feelings.
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As a matter of fact, the Hermitage Garden was not always the way we are used to seeing it. It was even located in a different place: from 1830 almost to the very late XIX century it was located on Bozhedomka and was the first pleasure garden in Moscow, with gazebos, flower beds, a theater, a stage, coffee houses and pavilions. greatest flourishing reached in an era when it belonged to a famous entrepreneur, former actor Maly Theater M. V. Lentovsky. K. S. Stanislavsky recalled the Hermitage garden at that time: “There was nothing in this garden: boating on the pond and water fireworks of incredible richness and variety with the battle of armadillos and drowning them, walking on a tightrope across the pond, water holidays with gondolas, illuminated boats, bathing nymphs in the pond, ballet on the shore and in the water. Processions of a military band, gypsy choirs, Russian songwriters. All of Moscow and foreigners visiting it visited the famous garden.”
However, Lentovsky went bankrupt, and the garden fell into disrepair, and later it was completely built up with houses, and nothing reminded of the times when all this bygone splendor was located on the site of Samotechny lanes.
And so begins the history of the Hermitage Garden in Karetny Ryad, which was born on the spot former estate merchant V.I. Olontsov. After several attempts to form a theater and a garden here, undertaken by the Moscow Artistic Circle, the merchant M.A. Lipsky, mechanical engineer K.V. Moshnin, the entire site passed into the possession of the Moscow merchant Ya.V. Shchukin on July 16, 1894. This date is celebrated as the birthday of the Hermitage Garden.
In just a year, a boring wasteland turned into a flowering garden, flowerbeds, paths were laid out, trees and shrubs were planted, the theater building was reconstructed, and on June 18, 1895, the Hermitage officially opened. The Moscow public showed considerable interest in him - Shchukin's perseverance and enthusiasm aroused involuntary respect even among those who reproached him for insufficient subtlety of taste.
In the same year, electric lighting appeared in the Hermitage, plumbing was installed, and a swimming pool was equipped. A year later, one of the first film screenings in Russia took place here.
F.I. Chaliapin, A.V. Sobinov, A.V. Nezhdanova, S.V. Rachmaninov made his debut as a conductor, played by Sarah Brenard, Maria Yermolova, Vera Komissarzhevskaya. In 1898, the opening of the Moscow Art Theater took place in the building of the Hermitage Theater, the first performance was Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich, it was here that the premieres were held. Chekhov plays. L. N. Tolstoy, V. I. Lenin visited the garden.
Shchukin constantly undertook the construction of new theater venues, in 1909 the summer "Mirror" Theater was built, he planned the opening of a unique winter theater for 4 thousand seats, but this plan was destined to take place only in part: the box, now called the Shchukin Stage, is all that managed to build. The unfavorable circumstances generated by the First World War and the revolution led Shchukin to ruin.
After the revolution, the garden was first nationalized, then, during the NEP period, it was transferred to private lease. In the building of the Hermitage Theater in 1924, the theater of the MGSPS (Moscow City Council of Trade Unions) was located, then it was renamed the Mossovet Theater, Yu. A. Zavadsky was appointed the main director. The Hermitage Garden continued to be a favorite vacation spot for Muscovites. And even global cataclysms could not change this.
During the war years, the garden was closed for a very short time - from the autumn of 1941 to April 1942. In 1943, the performances resumed, the artists who returned from the evacuation rehearsed and played in an unheated building, but the Hermitage lived on.
In the summer of 1945, the garden was reconstructed, in 1948 a summer garden was built. concert hall, where A. I. Raikin later performed, there were performances puppet theater, sang K. I. Shulzhenko, L. I. Ruslanova, an orchestra played under the direction of L. O. Utesov.
In the 50-60s. in the Hermitage Garden they played chess, walked, read, listened famous artists, watched movies (in 1953 a screen for a summer cinema was installed), during the Festival of Youth and Students in 1957, one and a half million visitors visited the garden. V. S. Vysotsky, duet R. Kartsev - V. Ilchenko, foreign musical and theater groups. The first game “What? Where? When?".
On November 20, 1980, the building of the Hermitage cinema was transferred to the Miniature Theater, under the direction of A.I. Raikin.
In 1991, the New Opera Theater was opened, today it is one of the three theaters operating on the territory of the garden (The Hermitage, The Sphere).
By the 850th anniversary of Moscow, the garden was transformed, many historical buildings were restored.
In 2000, the Hermitage Garden received two sculptures: busts of Dante Alighieri and Victor Hugo. The bust of Dante, made by the sculptor Rinaldo Piras, was donated to Moscow by the Italian government with the participation of the Dante Alighieri Society. The bust of Victor Hugo by Laurent Marquest was donated to the Hermitage Garden by the Paris City Hall. In 2006, a large Silver Heart "Monument to All Lovers" was installed in the Hermitage Garden. The monument is a composition of pipes 70 meters long, which are bent in the shape of a heart. Inside this monument are bells that ring from the wind. There is a legend that lovers who kissed for the first time under a metal heart will be happy, and their feelings will be strong and bright all their lives.
In 2014, the Hermitage Garden celebrated its 120th anniversary. And although the garden is beautiful and just by itself, every year it enters new page in his glorious history. It is nice here. This is the most Moscow vacation spot.
A bit of history
July 16, 1894 is considered the birthday of the Hermitage Garden. On this day, the site passed into the possession of the Moscow merchant Ya. V. Shchukin. In just a year, Shchukin managed to turn a boring wasteland into a blooming garden with flower beds, paths, trees and shrubs. The old building, which previously housed the theater, was reconstructed.
The official opening of the Hermitage Garden took place on June 18, 1895. The Moscow public showed considerable interest in him - Shchukin's perseverance and enthusiasm aroused involuntary respect even among those who reproached him for insufficient subtlety of taste. In the same year, electric lighting appeared in the Hermitage, plumbing was installed, and a swimming pool was equipped.
A year later, one of the first film screenings in Russia took place here. Such famous people sang on the stage of the Hermitage opera singers as Fedor Ivanovich Chaliapin, Leonid Vitalyevich Sobinov, Antonina Vasilievna Nezhdanova. Sergei Vasilyevich Rahmaninov debuted as a conductor, played by Sarah Brenard, Maria Yermolova, Vera Komissarzhevskaya.
Shchukin constantly undertook the construction of new theater venues, in 1909 the summer "Mirror" Theater was built. It was planned to open a unique winter theater with 4 thousand seats, but the unfavorable circumstances generated by the First World War and the revolution led Shchukin to ruin. The box, now called the Shchukin Stage, is all that has been built.
After the revolution, the garden was first nationalized, then transferred to private lease. But despite the global cataclysms, the Hermitage Garden continued to be a favorite vacation spot for Muscovites.
During the war years, the garden was closed for a very short time - from the autumn of 1941 to April 1942. In 1943, the performances resumed, the artists who returned from the evacuation rehearsed and played in an unheated building, but the Hermitage lived on.
In the postwar years, the garden was reconstructed, in 1948 a summer concert hall was built. In the 1950s and 1960s, people played chess in the Hermitage Garden, walked, read, listened to famous artists, watched movies on the screen for the summer cinema. During the Festival of Youth and Students in 1957, one and a half million visitors visited the garden.
By the 850th anniversary of Moscow, the garden was transformed, many historical buildings were restored. In 2004, the Hermitage Garden celebrated its 110th anniversary
Interesting sights in the Hermage Garden
In 2000, the Hermitage Garden received two sculptures: bust of Dante Alighieri (sculptor Rinaldo Piras) and bust of Victor Hugo (sculptor Laurent Marquest). The bust of Dante was donated to Moscow by the Italian government. The bust of Victor Hugo was donated to the Hermitage Garden by the Paris City Hall.
In 2006, a large Silver Heart "Monument to All Lovers" . The monument is a composition of pipes 70 meters long, which are bent in the shape of a heart. Inside this monument are bells that ring from the wind. There is a giving that lovers who kissed for the first time under a metal heart will be happy, and their feelings will be strong and bright all their lives.
The first Moscow electric lantern cast at the Ekaterininsky factory , was installed in the Hermitage Garden in 1880, and after restoration it was lit again in honor of the 110th anniversary of the Garden on June 16, 2004.
Walks in the Hermitage Garden
The territory of the Hermitage Garden, although not very large, surprisingly and without any cramping fits so many interesting things!
On the territory of the garden there are three theaters: "Hermitage", "Sphere" and "New Opera" . In addition, various kinds of theater events, tours, entreprises.
Summer stage - a legendary place . In the 60-70s of the twentieth century, such artists as Gennady Khazanov, Mikhail Zhvanetsky, Vladimir Vysotsky, Lyudmila Zykina and many others performed there. This venue hosts the famous regular jazz festival, star performances, City Day concerts and other holidays, major presentations, sometimes the orchestra just plays here.
Fountain it will give coolness and set you in a meditative mood: watching the streams of water, you will rest, and your thoughts will gain clarity and liveliness.
Playground will give joy to the little visitors of the Hermitage Garden.
Wonderful flower beds, trees blooming in spring : lindens, maples, oaks, poplars, beautiful bushes along the paths : lilac, honeysuckle, hawthorn, roses.
Two pavilions "garden cottage" in the English style with cast metal patterns create a special cosiness and an atmosphere of sophistication. A great place for a romantic date and a beautiful photo shoot.
They live in the garden cute fluffy squirrels and thoroughbred pigeons .
In winter, the Hermitage Garden opens the most romantic skating rink in Moscow . Visitors can change clothes and rent skates in heated pavilions. On the skating rink in the Hermitage Garden, classes are held with professional trainers in figure skating. And for the youngest visitors, there are special support installations in the form of funny animal figures (penguins and cubs) at the box office - they help to maintain balance.
Also in the Hermitage Garden there are many different circles and studios for the children of their parents:
- children's clubs, which host exciting educational, educational, creative pursuits;
- lessons foreign languages(English, Italian, French);
- studios of painting, music, ballet;
- dance clubs;
- yoga, fitness programs for all ages
- there are tables for playing ping pong and rental of sports equipment necessary for playing.
In the Hermitage Garden often various interesting events , the poster of which you can study on the official website of the Hermitage Garden.
During exciting walks in the garden, you will definitely want to refresh yourself and have a bite to eat with something tasty. The Hermitage Garden took care of that as well. There is a bar, a restaurant, a summer cafe with food and drinks for every taste.
In the Hermitage Garden people walk with their lovers, friends, children and parents. It is good for everyone here at any time of the year. And, having got here once, you will definitely want to come back more than once!
Founded by Ya. V. Shchukin, a well-known Moscow theatrical entrepreneur, philanthropist.
The garden was first opened to the public in 1894.
According to Shchukin's request, the city authorities allowed the factory building that stood here earlier to be used as a theater hall.
In the same 1894, the architect V.P. Zagorsky added a one-story gallery and a porch to the building.
Andres rus , GNU 1.2In 1895, the architect Balevich planned the garden and built summer stages and canopies for a buffet.
The official opening of the garden took place on June 18, 1895, under the name - " New Hermitage"(also Shchukinsky), to distinguish it from the former Hermitage pleasure garden on Bozhedomka.
On May 26, 1896, the first public cinema session of the Lumiere brothers took place here.
On October 26, 1898, the Moscow Public Art Theater was opened at the Hermitage Theater with the premiere of the play “Tsar Fedor Ioannovich”, under the direction of K. S. Stanislavsky and V. I. Nemirovich-Danchenko, the premieres of plays by A. P. Chekhov "The Seagull" and "Uncle Vanya".
Vladimir OKC , Public Domain In 1907, a number of stone buildings commissioned by Shchukin were built in the garden by the architect B. M. Nilus. In 1909, according to the project of the architect A.N. Novikov, the building of the summer theater was built, which later received the name "Mirror".
Opera performances by the troupe of S. I. Mamontov were staged here, S. V. Rachmaninov made his debut as a conductor of the Russian Private Opera. There were benefit performances by F. I. Chaliapin, sang by L. V. Sobinov, A. V. Nezhdanova, many eminent performers of romances, among them A. D. Vyaltseva, M. I. Vavich; performed by Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova. Sarah Bernhardt, Ernesto Rossi, Gustavo Salvini and many other foreign stage stars toured here.
The garden successfully worked under the guidance of Ya. V. Schukin until 1917.
In the 1930s, the garden was headed by the architect D. D. Bulgakov; his authorship probably belongs to lanterns, pedestals and other small garden forms.
In the 1940s, the old winter theater was reconstructed according to the project of architects M. V. Posokhin and A. A. Mndoyants - the entrance lobby was demolished, and a colonnade with an open courtyard was built instead.
In the summer of 1945, the garden was reconstructed, in 1948 a summer concert hall was built, where A. I. Raikin later performed, performances of the Puppet Theater were held, K. I. Shulzhenko, L. I. Ruslanov sang, an orchestra played under the direction of L. O Utesova.
In 1950-60s. in the Hermitage Garden they played chess, walked, read, listened to famous artists, watched movies (in 1953 a screen for a summer cinema was installed), during the Festival of Youth and Students in 1957, one and a half million visitors visited the garden.
V. S. Vysotsky, duet R. Kartsev - V. Ilchenko, foreign musical and theater groups performed here. The first game “What? Where? When?".
On November 20, 1980, the building of the Hermitage cinema was transferred to the Miniature Theater, under the direction of A.I. Raikin.
In 1991, the New Opera Theater was opened, today it is one of the three theaters operating on the territory of the garden (The Hermitage, The Sphere).
By the 850th anniversary of Moscow, the garden was transformed, many historical buildings were restored.
In 2000, the Hermitage Garden received two sculptures: busts of Dante Alighieri and Victor Hugo. The bust of Dante, made by the sculptor Rinaldo Piras, was donated to Moscow by the Italian government with the participation of the Dante Alighieri Society. The bust of Victor Hugo by Laurent Marquest was donated to the Hermitage Garden by the Paris City Hall.
In 2006, a large Silver Heart "Monument to All Lovers" was installed in the Hermitage Garden. The monument is a composition of pipes 70 meters long, which are bent in the shape of a heart. Inside this monument are bells that ring from the wind. There is a saying that lovers who kissed for the first time under a metal heart will be happy, and their feelings will be strong and bright all their lives.
October 22nd, 2016 02:05 pm
In July 1894, the Moscow businessman and philanthropist Yakov Shchukin acquired the site of the former mechanical plant, a wasteland and carriage shops in Karetny Ryad, arranging the Hermitage Garden on this site. Previously, a pleasure garden with this name was marked on the maps of the city in the area of Bozhedomka. But its owner, entrepreneur M. Lentovsky, went bankrupt and the park - although it was a popular recreational spot for Muscovites - had to be closed. The fate of the garden with the borrowed name turned out to be happier. The official opening of the new Hermitage took place on June 18, 1895.
Yakov Shchukin in the Hermitage Garden. 1910: https://pastvu.com/p/35648
Yakov Shchukin tried to surprise Muscovites with unusual spectacles, and he succeeded. On May 26, 1896, the city's first film show took place in the garden, showing a ten-minute film by the Lumiere brothers, The Arrival of a Train. New entertainment appeared in Russia five months after the very first film screening in Paris.
Through the efforts of Shchukin, an unsightly corner of Moscow turned into a blooming garden with shady alleys, flower beds, sculptures, gazebos and electric lighting. The proletarian revolution, although it brought dissonance into the measured life of the townspeople, did not get rid of the habit of walking in the garden. Even during the Great Patriotic War, the Hermitage was closed for a very short time.
During the Soviet period, new lanterns and small architectural forms were installed on the alleys, some of them can still be seen, but the sculptures remained only in old photographs. However, something has been preserved even from the Shchukin times.
1960: https://pastvu.com/p/112428
1964: https://pastvu.com/p/93746
1986: https://pastvu.com/p/170142
Scheme from the site http://www.mosgorsad.ru/ (2016)
An electric lantern for a lamp with an incandescent lamp (made in 1913 at the Ekaterininsky plant in the Polish city of Sosnowitsy). This lantern was restored in 2004.
Summer terrace. 1965: https://pastvu.com/p/35657 In the post-war years, visitors to the garden were attracted by the summer stage, where artists Arkady Raikin, Klavdia Shulzhenko, Lidia Ruslanova performed, and the jazz orchestra of Leonid Utyosov played. The stage is still located in the same place, there are busts of composers Tchaikovsky and Glinka.
In 2000, busts of Dante Alighieri and Victor Hugo, donated to Moscow by the Italian government and the mayor's office of Paris, were installed in the alleys.
The composition "Monument to all lovers", made of metal pipes bent in the shape of a heart, appeared in 2006. Inside this monument are bells that ring in the wind.
You can have a bite to eat in several cafes and restaurants
The garden has always been famous for its theaters, on the stages of which Fyodor Chaliapin, Leonid Sobinov, Antonina Nezhdanova, Maria Yermolova, Vera Komissarzhevskaya, ballerina Anna Pavlova, European stars Sarah Bernhardt, Ernesto Rossi appeared. And now there are three theaters in the garden at once: the Hermitage, the New Opera and the Sphere.
The Hermitage Theatre. 1901-1903: https://pastvu.com/p/335361 The oldest garden building
On October 26, 1898, the Moscow Art Public Theater under the direction of Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko (MKhAT) was opened at the Hermitage Theater with the premiere of the play "Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich". This stage also hosted the premieres of Anton Chekhov's plays The Seagull and Uncle Vanya.
Moscow Theater of Miniatures. 1979-1981: https://pastvu.com/p/86438
Scenes from the cult television movie The Meeting Place Cannot Be Changed were filmed in the garden. 1978: https://pastvu.com/p/467080 It is a pity that Vladimir Vysotsky, for whom these places were native, did not get into the frame along with Vladimir Konkin. Here the youth of the poet and artist passed. Where are my seventeen years? - On Bolshoi Karetny...
In the early years of Soviet power, the building of the Hermitage Theater housed the MGSPS Theater (Moscow City Council of Trade Unions), which was later renamed the Mossovet Theater. In 1959, the Moscow Theater of Miniatures, founded by the playwright and satirist Viktor Polyakov, moved into the building, and in 1987, artistic director Mikhail Levitin found a new name, more in line with its essence - The Hermitage.
The theater's credo is amusingly formulated on the official website http://ermitazh.theatre.ru/history/: “Today the garden, with its restaurants, attractions and other mass undertakings, is the center of the “culture and recreation” industry. Unscrupulous people include theaters in it. We do not like this approach; Art put on stream dulls and corrupts. That is why the theater-house, formed by Levitin, does not forget the original meaning of the word "ermitage": a hermit's corner, a place of solitude. The inhabitants of our house (corner) are still closer to hermits than to mass entertainers. We do not "serve" idle spies, but we collect our viewers in order to retire with them in another reality.
Alas, it is impossible to get into the Hermitage Theater in the Hermitage Garden due to the protracted reconstruction of the historic building. But the theatrical life goes on and the performances are on other Moscow stages, in the 2016 season it is Novy Arbat, 11.
King Lear staged by Mikhail Levitin on the stage of Pyotr Fomenko's Workshop (2014). Starring Mikhail Filippov.
Mirror Theatre. 1910: https://pastvu.com/p/35652
In 1909, according to the project of the architect A. Novikov, the building of the summer theater was built, which later received the name "Mirror". Opera performances of the Russian Private Opera by Savva Mamontov were staged here, where Sergei Rachmaninov made his debut as a conductor.
Mirror Theatre. 1981: https://pastvu.com/p/44234
The first game of intellectuals of the club “What? Where? When?". Well, then there was a period when nightclubs appeared in the Hermitage Garden (the Penthouse was in the Mirror), but over time, opera parts sounded here again. On the site of the pre-revolutionary "Mirror" was built a building for the "New Opera" by Yevgeny Kolobov, a theater founded in 1991. Among his productions, marked by theater awards, are Eugene Onegin, Rigoletto, Gianni Schicchi, Cat's House. In total, the repertoire of the "New Opera" includes more than seventy works of opera and concert genres.
How the housewarming was prepared, tells the Novaya Opera website http://www.novayaopera.ru/?page=history: “In 1991, by order of the Moscow Government, the building of the Mirror Theater was transferred to the control of the NEW OPERA, and from that time the second the life of the famous theater in the Hermitage Garden. The general contractor for the construction, the Austrian company Lennex, and Moscow builders quickly erected a modern opera house on the site of a dilapidated building. The chief architect of the project, V. Kotelnikov, found an opportunity to preserve the style of the original building, to use individual elements of the decoration of the "Mirror Theater" in the design of the facade of the new building. The chandeliers and the curtain are made according to the sketches of the People's Artist of Russia E. Kochergin. The organizers of the project did not limit themselves to the reconstruction of the architectural monument. The new building of the theater is a hall for 660 seats, equipped with modern lighting equipment and stage mechanics, which allow performances with complex stage effects to be staged. It is also a cozy foyer and hall, rooms for artists, a modern recording studio, rehearsal rooms, a library, administrative services.” The opening took place in 1997.
Larisa Dolina, Ekaterina Guseva, Lika Rulla and other artists at the Musical Heart of the Theater awards ceremony at the Novaya Opera
1905-1910: https://pastvu.com/p/369897 Construction of a "winter" theater for 4,000 seats will begin on this site, but it will remain unfinished. Either the authorities forbade Shchukin to build such a bulky structure, or the outbreak of the First World War prevented him.
Brick buildings remained around the Shchukin stage, one of which is occupied by the Moscow Sfera Drama Theater, created in 1981 by the decision of the USSR Ministry of Culture on the initiative of Ekaterina Yelanskaya, who formulated the idea of the theater: “We reject the principle of a cube theater with a wall removed and peeping - we affirm principle of the sphere of communication. At first, the theater was located in the recreation center of the Kauchuk plant on Plyushchikha, but already in 1984 the reconstruction of the auditorium of the theater building in the Hermitage garden was completed.
The theater hall is a circular amphitheater with a central stage and movable platforms inside it. The architect of the project was Natalia Golas, the main artist - Vladimir Soldatov.
Ekaterina Elanskaya created performances, bringing together actors from different theaters - Alexander Kalyagin, Georgy Taratorkin, Evgenia Simonova, Tatyana Doronina, Evgeny Kindinov, Mikhail Kozakov. Among her productions are Saint-Exupery's The Little Prince, Bulgakov's Theatrical Novel, Shukshin's There, Away, Zoshchenko's Comedies, Chekhov's The Seagull and others.
According to the official website of the theater
