Things from the Theatre Collection and Fireplace

In 1898, a St. Petersburg insurance company purchased and began renovation of a hotel in the centre of Moscow on Teatralnaya Ploschad, or Theatre Square. Muscovites called it "Tchelishi" after its ex-owner, the builder and Merchant of the First Guild Paul Tchelishev. The rights to refurbish the building and run the hotel were acquired by the Northern Building Society, founded by the famous entrepreneur and patron of the arts Savva Mamontov.

St.Petersburg, Square of Aleksandrinsky Theatre, 7

View from Bolshoi Theatre

- Actor of Moscow Chamber Theatre in the Play "King Arlekin". Photo of Sakharov M. and Orlov P.

- Ballerina of Mariinsky Theatre. Photo of Otsup A. St.Petersburg

- Actor of Moscow Chamber Theatre, in a group, the 3-rd to the left

The May Parade of the Troops of Moscow Military District. Moscow. Theatre Square

- Actor of Moscow Chamber Theatre. Photo of S.S.Lu...bov. Tiflis

Kuznetsova-Benua Mariya Nikolaevna(1880-1966), opera singer(soprano), soloist of Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg. Photo with autograph.

Bakhrushin Aleksei Aleksandrovich (1865-1929), Director of "Association of Leather and Cloth Manufactories of Aleksei Bakhrushin's Sons", Member of Moscow City Duma in 1901-1906, Famous Collector, Founder and since 1919 - Director of Moscow Theatre Museum, Head of Municipal Popular House at Vvedenskaya Street in Moscow, Trustee of the Bakhrushins Hospital, Charity House and Maternity Hospital. Bakhrushina Vera Vasilievna, born Nosova (1875-1942) - Wife of Bakhrushin Aleksei Aleksandrovich, from the Family of Moscow Textile Manufacturers, Member of the Russian Theatre Society. Photo of Diyagovchenko I. Moscow

Autograph: "...to dear Vladimir Ivanovich as a good souvenir". Photographer of Imperial Theatres Fisher K.A.