Academic Maly Opera Theatre: Ploshchad Iskusstv, 1 (1, Square of Arts).
In 1833, in the building erected by the architect A. P. Bryullov (the fagade was designed by C. Rossi), a theatre was opened where French and Italian actors staged musical comedies and vaudevilles for an exclusive aristocratic set. A new creative life began at the theatre in 1918, when a new kind of theatre-goer heard…