The biography of the theater Lenkom

Services History of the Prayer building on the occasion of the opening of the Moscow Merchant Club were served in the summer and the foundation of the building according to the project of architect Ivanov-Shitsa, a zealous follower of the Art Nouveau style, was laid down in the year.

In those places where an oak parquet remained, we step today on the same floorboards, on which the industrialist and philanthropist S. Mamontov, composer N. Rubinstein, lawyer F. Pleeveko, the state husband K. Pobedonostsev, Professor T. Granovsky and many others paced before us. With the merchant club, he hospitably accepted representatives of aristocratic surnames, the efforts of which Russia entered the ten most developed countries of the world - Volkon, Dolgorukov, Obolensky, Trubetskoy, Apraxins.

In October, the brilliant interior of the merchant club on Malaya Dmitrovka was desecrated by people, irreconcilably hostile to the former owners of the house. Previously, dramatic and musical performances were regularly played here, musical and vocal diverticians were given. Now the building has turned into a political club - "House of anarchy." From this moment, the interior began to collapse in the most irreparable way.

The restoration of the lower lobby was able to change very little. And, alas, that which is recreated is not comparing with the original, captured in historical photographs. In the year, the hearth of the anarchist movement in Moscow on Malaya Dmitrovka was eliminated with the help of weapons, which was not slow to affect the building itself. After the "House of Anarchy" in the building of the former merchant club, the communist university named after Y.

Lenin with discouraging simplicity told the world about a new communist morality: "It is only moral that contributes to the victory of the proletariat." The leader of the world proletariat was the first in history to release an armed party of a new type from such an annoying concept as a conscience. Later he had famous followers. In the year, a cinema was opened for commercial support for the communist university in its walls, where they were mainly foreign films.

So the director of the famous cinema "Kino Malaya Dmitrovka, 6" M. Boytler, according to the historian of our house L. Polskaya, “generously distributed countermars to young students Gik - Sergey Eisenstein and Sergey Yutkevich, as well as the students of the factory of an eccentric actor who came from Petrograd - Lev Kuleshov and Mikhail Romm, the future luminaries of Soviet kinematographer.

It was written as if by the birth of this house. The Museum, ”L. Polish, and this is in some unknown way, affected those who were free to dispose of the fate of the Moscow houses.” The year is placed here, a theater that cannot be bypassed, the theater of actors -stars and superstars, outstanding directors and playwrights, the theater of amazing creative youth, innovation, bold experiments, longevity and the constancy of their audience success.