Maly Theatre

…role in 1938 at the Maly Theatre, where he acted and directed until 1985.

In 1823 he joined the Maly (Little) Theatre in Moscow, where he dominated actors and dramatists alike for the next 40 years. He was friendly with Alexandr Pushkin, Ivan Turgenev, and other writers (frequently commissioning plays to suit his new technique) and promoted a new generation of realistic actors, including…