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The last play written by Velimir Khlebnikov before his death in 1922, Zangezi was an ecstatic drama written partly in the invented languages of the gods and birds. Vladimir Tatlin was the director, d...
The Russian folk drama King Maxemian and his Disobedient Son Adolf (in other versions, King Maximilian ) was extremely popular in the 1910s. There were hundreds of different variants of the play, whi...
Alexander Griboyedov ’s play Woe From Wit was premiered at the Bolshoi Theatre in St Petersburg on 26 January 1831. In 1902, the Museum of History in Moscow acquired the manuscript of the play. That ...