TCHEKHOV MKHAT

An academic and artistic theater in Moscow, the prestigious mkhat, specialized in the repertoire of Tchekhov, was the laboratory of Russian drama under the leadership of the great masters of the Russian and universal theater Constantin Stanislavski and Nemirovitch-Dantchenko, who founded it in 1898. Set in the graceful building rebuilt by Chekhtel in 1902, at the corner of Tverskaya Street, the theater occupies a special place in the history of the Russian drama that it has revolutionized and remains avant-garde, even if it is called old mkhat. Indeed, the mkhat, which was named Gorki under Stalin, split into two troops in 1987, the avant-garde, formerly led by Oleg Efremov, founder of the Sovremennik theater remaining in the former premises. The others, less critical of the system, moved to another place to which they retained the name of mkhat Gorky. The old Mkhat, however, is not spared a crisis between the director and the troupe, some of whom go to other places or choose the cinema. But the tradition of the festival dedicated to Chekhov in October is not affected.