List of Russian Opera Theatres
- "Comedie et opere", (small hall in a wing of Zimniy Dvorets—(The Winter Palace, From 1735 St Petersburg)
- Theatre of Letniy Sad — (Summer Garden), from 1735 St Petersburg)
- Opera House (with 1000 seats, at Zimniy Dvorets — (The Winter Palace, from 1743, St Petersburg)
- Moscow Theatre (built 1742 for the coronation of Elizaveta Petrovna, Moscow)
- Kuskovo Summer Theatre (from 1755, Kuskovo near Moscow)
- Karl Kniper Theatre (1777–1797 St Petersburg)
- Chinese Opera Theatre (From 1779, Tsarskoe Selo near St Petersburg)
- Petrovsky Theatre (with 1000 seats, from 1780–1805, Moscow)
- Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre (1783–1811, St Petersburg)
- Hermitage Theatre (from 1785 St Petersburg)
- Ostankino Theatre (from July 22, 1795, Ostankino near Moscow)
- Imperial Kamenny Theatre or the Bolshoi Theatre of Saint Petersburg, (St Petersburg)
- Petrovka Theatre (from 1786–1805 Moscow)
- Bolshoi Theatre (from 1825 Moscow)
- Kamenny Island Theatre (from 1826 St Petersburg)
- Mariinsky Theatre, (from 1860 St Petersburg)
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