Since that time the Yalta became the summer residence of the Romanovs and the most fashionable resort in Russia , before the City Council raised the question of how best to entertain the audience who came to rest . Touring musicians , the theater put on plays at Yalta was nowhere .City garden became the main center of cultural life in Yalta and it solved the problem of the theater.
In January 1883 council leased a small portion of the City Garden honorary citizen - Fox Aronovich Begunova . The theater was designed by Mr. Schreiber .To the season of the theater scene of the future was ready and May 26, the Society of Russian artists put on her vaudeville in 5 acts war wives with husbands or argue to tears, but not on the mortgage beysya . Then the scene was built auditorium .
In 1898, the scene of the Yalta theater singing while quite young Feodor Chaliapin .Accompanied his friend and future genius of musical culture - pianist Sergei Rachmaninoff . Among the audience was present Anton Chekhov . With this concert in Yalta theater began a dizzying career Chaliapin and Rachmaninoff.
In autumn 1897 the first theater building read their works , Michael N. Garin, and C. Stanyukovich .
The first Yalta theater turned out a little , only 315 seats . Since then, life began Yalta theater.
In 1890, at the City Council an opportunity to expand the theater building and the entrance to it from the street to St. Catherine . A wooden one-story building was designed by architect NG Tarasova.The theater opened July 28, 1896 play by Alexander Ostrovsky Guilty Without Guilt .
The following spring , in 1898 , toured Ukrainian theater group led by Sadovsky with M. Zankovetska , in September, Yalta crowd besieged the theater hoping to get to the concert Chaliapin and Rachmaninoff.
in 1898.Nemirovich -Danchenko requests to allow staging of Chekhov's Seagull on stage MAT.
If you do not give , then zarezhesh me , because the only modern psa Seagull , exciting me as a filmmaker , and you - the only contemporary writer who is of great interest to the theater with an exemplary repertoire - insisted the H- D .Seagull gave birth to a new theater, but theater has approved an innovative drama by Chekhov. Since then, the theater has become an emblem of a white seagull Cech .
Chekhov wanted to see myself as a set of his plays, but because of illness , he could not go to Moscow. In letters to friends , Chekhov Theatre asked to come to Yalta.
Lubov artists to Chekhov was so great that they decided to come to Yalta in its entirety.
April 14 Art Theater went to Yalta , and started in the spring holiday . By this time in Yalta Chekhov's friends came to Gorky , Bunin , Kuprin , Mamin- Siberian, Wanderer . It is hard to describe what happened that night in Yalta theater.Delight the audience literally reached a frenzy on stage from all sides threw wreaths , flowers, and in the end - hats and gloves - were reported on the second day in the newspaper Crimean Gazette .
All callers Chekhov, and when he appeared before the audience , someone handed him a palm branch , tied a red ribbon with the inscription: Anton Pavlovich Chekhov profound interpreter of Russian life April 23 1900. .
In April 1900 the Moscow Art Theater staff show here Seagull and Uncle Vanya , APChekhov, as well as the Lone Hauptmann and Ibsen's Hedda Gabler .
Five months later , on September 10 , 1900, first building of the Yalta city theater burned down.
In 1902, in his place appeared a temporary theater on the stage which performed a beautiful Russian actress V. Komissarzhevskaya .
The construction of the new capital of the theater building , planned in 1895 , the municipal government lacked the funds . Helped solve the problem already mentioned former artist of the Imperial Theatres , a guild merchant Kiev Simon Nikodimovich Novikov.He offered his services to the Yalta City Council and, with consent , May 13, 1908 entered into an agreement with her the following : SN Novikov, building on urban land on the street.Catherine's theater with all buildings ( restrooms for performers, sewerage , water supply, electric lighting , etc.) on the plan drawn up by architect Lev Nikolayevich Shapovalov , worth at least 30. 000 thousand.Novikov is obliged to hand the building is not less than 6 months from the date of approval of the project construction department of the provincial government Tauris . The theater building and service arrives in the gratuitous use of SN Novikov on the 10th anniversary of the adoption of Novikov structures. Water and electric lighting pays Novikov , and he also makes repairs .Novikov shall provide annually to the theater at least 100 performances: opera, operetta , drama , ballet , etc. at his discretion, except kafeshantannyh . For the number of performances nedoigrannoe he pays 15 rubles for the show. Novikov has the right to arrange the buffet and drinks for sale separately from the buffet of urban gardens.Novikov has to have decent furniture , at least 10 changes of scenery and fixtures for lighting.
In this case all personal property acquired by Novikov in the theater - his property. The rest - at the end of the contract goes in favor of the city. In case of death of Novikov 's rights and obligations are transferred to heirs.Novikov begins construction no later than 6 weeks after approval of plans and , if not finished in time , the Justice pays 10 rubles for each day of delay.
Despite the harsh conditions of the contract Novikov agree with them. Construction progressed rapidly and widely covered by local press. Supervise the construction architect L.N. Shapovalov. In mid-August came to an end finishing.
Gazeta Russian Riviera these days wrote: ... The inside of the Novikov Theatre produces a very favorable impression . A small but high , spacious room can accommodate a lot of air ....All locations are located conveniently in the acoustic and visual artists on ... will be hidden from the public new building was built ahead of schedule, only one hundred days . Unlike the former , the building was a 2- storey , two storey, with services, stone , iron roof . Its value was 48. 536 rubles, or 18.536 rubles higher than the minimum cost of the theater, established by the city Duma . The facade of the new theater was without any special decoration with raised moldings . In slightly speakers left and right sides of the facade was one high semicircular window on the second floor and a small square of the first.
The entrance to the lobby - in three glass doors from the street was Catherine . Above the entrance - a metal canopy . The spacious auditorium was illuminated further through the ceiling windows daylight. The spacious lobby and three-tiered room with a large balcony , three rows of seats in the stalls. Lodge first floor are separated by a profiled columns.Along the perimeter of balconies were decorated with stucco ornamentation . Drapery multilayer patterned velvet curtains at the top was crowned the arms of the city.
September 5, 1908 began a new life of urban theater. On this day, there was a concert of the famous singer , soloist of the theater of His Imperial Majesty , MI Valley.Valley of the operetta troupe changed Rafalsky and Novikov, then Italian opera. Life \Zhiznʹ “Novikovskogo” tyeatra byla nasyshchennoĭ i raznoobraznoĭ.
Давались оперетты: “Веселая вдова” (10 сентября), “Ночь любви” (12 сентября), через год выступала труппа Марка Евсеевича Тумашева.
В 1911 – 1914гг.проходило выступление Петербургской оперетты.
in 1916. in the theater , a concert theater of miniatures , with the participation of Moscow operetta - comedians .
In December of 1916. was an operetta , \shla operetta “Krasnoe solnyshko” v postanovke yaltintsa A. Ye. Dubovenko.
Pomimo A. D. Vyalʹtsevoĭ (1909, 1911, 1912gg. ), v tyeatre vystupali takie znamenitosti, kak M. A. Zorina s tsyganskimi romansami (20. 09.1908. ) NV Plevitskaya (September -October, 1909, 1910 , September 1911. , August-September 1913. , September 1917. ) Varya Panina (September 1909 ). , RY Raisova (September 1913 ). \],[solist Yego Velichestva” Lyeonid Sobinov (avgust 1915g. ).V Novikovskom tyeatre vystupali opernye pevtsy i pevitsy: Natalʹya Stepanovna Yuzhina (soprano), D. H.Yuzhin, Mon Olga ( soprano ) , Nicholas (bass ) and others
The whole world and national classics sounded on the scene of the Yalta theater, including works by Camille Saint-Saens , M. Musorskogo , Henryk Wieniawski , Anton Rubinstein , Alexander Glazunov , A. Spendiarov and others.
At the theater heard works of the composer Kirill Dmitrievich Yalta Agreneva -Slavic , VI Rebikov .
July 15, 1909 on tour , \
15 iyulya 1909 goda gastrolirovalo “Tovarishchestvo artistov Kievskoĭ opery”.
16 iyunya 1912 goda prohodili gastroli hudozhestvennoĭ peredvizhnoĭ opery Direktsii artistov imperatorskogo tovarishchestva D. Yuzhina.In Yalta, the troupe performed from artists in other cities, formed the principal director and director of AE Dubovenko . In the theater, were held in the evening of symphonic music. Was presented and traditional music : ensemble \Byla predstavlena i natsionalʹnaya muzyka: ansamblʹ “Tovarishchestva ukrainskih artistov” pod upravleniem Stepana Aleksandrovicha Glazunenko i dr.Were presented and dramatic performances at the Yalta scene. October 7 1913. first dramatic role actress in a play Protopopov, \vpervye rolʹ dramaticheskoĭ artistki v pʹese Protopopova “Rabyni veselʹya” igrala N. V. Plevitskaya.
V avguste 1917g.These free performances are usually held once a month. In the theater, and student were held in the evening, the works of famous composers, performed by young talents .
loved theater and enjoyed visiting yaltintsy and guests .
In the spring of 1917 at the Theatre troupe re- staged performances of the Moscow Art Theatre.Here, at different times were Shalyapin , L. Sobinov, Kozlovsky, A. Vertinsky , K. Shulzhenko, M. et al Esambayev
With the establishment of Soviet power in the city (1920) in the theater began to carry out the solemn meeting of the working people dedicated to the revolutionary festivals , conferences , meetings, an asset the city party organization.
In 1922,Party activists at a meeting of the city served the Central Executive Committee Chairman Mikhail Kalinin , who arrived in Yalta and Crimea during the famine.
In November - December 1941 during the Nazi occupation of the city in the theater lobby was a smithy, in other rooms arranged workshops for the repair of motorcycles and field kitchens .
In April 1944 , departing from Yalta , the Nazis set fire to the building of the theater .
July 21, 1944 the newspaper published a banner Stalin decree of the Council of People's Commissars of the Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic to perpetuate the memory of the great Russian writer Anton Chekhov, whom the theater is given a name by Anton Chekhov.
, the residentsYalta with 128 soldiers Guards Rifle Division, Major General Koldubova restored theater and on 6 August 1944. on stage first to speak Sergei Lemeshev.By this time, the theater , compared with construction in 1908 , changed the entrance from the public gardens , to the inputs from both sides attached porches with columns in the Empire style, outbuildings for service , expanded lobby. On the streets of St. Catherine was built over a portico balcony with balustrade. On the facade of the building with 2 plaques.On stage Yalinskogo theater could be heard singing opera Kozlowski , Lisitsian , Baturin, Hvorostovsky .
known theaters in Moscow, Leningrad and Kiev , came on tour in Yalta. Foreign theater United States, Britain , Norway, Hungary and other countries decorate poster theater Yalta Chekhov .Acknowledged masters of the national theater scene - Smoktunovsky , Efremov , Savina , Vertinsky , Lavrov, Kalyagin , Evstigneev , Borisov , Yakovlev, Solovianenko , Hvorostovsky, fascinated by his art a grateful audience of Yalta .
In the course of 11 years (1985 - 1996 city ) in April in the theater were the traditional arts fetivali - Days APChekhov.
In 1996, the theater is closed for repairs.
reconstruction of Yalta Theater. Chekhov performed in 2006 - 2008 years of the initiative and funds for the Russian investment and finance group National Reserve Corporation , headed by Alexander Lebedev.Daily management of the works on reconstruction of the theater by the head of the NRB- Ukraine Vyacheslav Yutkin and general contractor work was Turkish construction company Erbek led Erdzhanom Bekar .
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