Moscow Pushkin Drama Theatre

Moscow Pushkin Drama Theatre is a theatre company in Moscow created in 1950 on the base of Alexander Tairov’s Chamber Theatre, which was founded in 1914 and shut down in 1949 for ideological reasons. The history of the Pushkin Theatre goes back to 1914 when still relatively unknown Alexander Tairov was looking for a site for his new theatre. As the actress Alisa Koonen suggested a large house on Tverskoy, Tairov initially found it unsuitable before coming up with the idea of reconstruction, which was soon implemented.Problems emerged when the Russian Orthodox Church authorities expressed disapproval of the theatre’s closeness to the Ioann Bogoslov Cathedral; the conflict proved to be lasting one, but did get resolved. In the 1930s the building was reconstructed.