Georgy Tovstonogov (1956-1989)
Georgy Tovstonogov was the Artistic Director of the theater since 1956 until his death in 1989. During his prime Tovstonogov was considered one the best theatre directors of Europe and the theater was one of the best in the Soviet Union
Tovstonogov was the first who returned Fyodor Dostoyevsky into Soviet theater, by his productions of The Idiot (1957).
Among other famous performances are:
- The Three Sisters 1965 and Uncle Vanya (1982) by Anton Chekhov
- Five evenings 1958 and My big sister 1961 by Alexander Volodin
- Irkusk Story by A. N. Arbuzov 1960
- Wit Works Woe 1962 by Alexander Griboedov
- Barbarians (1959) and Meschane (1966) by Maxim Gorky
- Once again about Love (1964) by Edvard Radzinsky
- Henry IV (1969) by William Shakespeare
- Revisor by Nikolay Gogol (1972)
- Last summer in Chulimsk by Alexander Vampilov (1974)
- Energetic people by Vasily Shukshin (1974)
- History of a Horse after Leo Tolstoy's Kholstomer (1975)
and many others.
The prominent members of his troupe included Alisa Freindlich, Zinaida Sharko, Lyudmila Makarova, Tatiana Doronina, Svetlana Kryuchkova, Kirill Lavrov, Innokenty Smoktunovsky, Pavel Luspekaev, Yefim Kopelyan, Sergey Yursky, Vladislav Strzhelchik, Еvgeny Lebedev, and Oleg Basilashvili.
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