you are: the Father of Russian theatre

About existence of the Yaroslavl theatre empress Elizabeth Petrovna has learnt. The government required for a long time professional Russian theatre, it was necessary not only for entertainment, but also for prestige maintenance: Russia - the great state, had no own Russian theatre! In an imperial palace played foreign troupes! Elizabeth did not regret money for the entertainments, many ambassadors and grandees asserted, that such rich clothes on actors, scenery and other theatrical accessories were difficult for seeing even in Paris. The empress has given the decree to bring to Petersburg ' Feodor Grigorevicha Volkova's merchant, it polushkin, with brothers Gabriel and Grigory who contained theatre in Yaroslavl and play comedies and who it for this purpose still potrebny will be... And a dress belonging to them... ' Volkova have caused in the Yaroslavl provincial office, have ordered to gather. He has asked to send with it not only his brothers, but necessary ' to igraniju comedies ' bureaucrats Ivan Ikonnikov and Jacob Popova, copyist Simeon Kuklin, Ivan Narykova (Dmitrevsky), Alexey Popova, Yaroslavl posadskogo person Simeon Skachkova, Damian Galina and Jacob Shumsky. Only eleven persons. This imperial command has caused an alarm; actors did not know,) to rejoice it or to be afflicted, the future was the unknown person, after all to go was necessary in capital where public was ' not a couple Yaroslavl ': saw performances of the French and Italian actors!