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At landowner theatres used art and with a view of propagation of serf ideology. At several serf theatres V.I.Maykov's is reactionary-guarding opera ' the Rural holiday, or the Topped virtue ' was put. The count And. To - Razumovsky had chorus from serfs. This grandee has ordered the scenario of a national holiday which glorified ' serene ' a life of its peasants. Annually in a garden of the count arranged ' a theatrical haymaking ' to which invited spectators. The haymaking in razumovskom to a garden represented a divertissement: some tens tall beautiful guys in white shirts, in pojarkovyh hats with the peacock plumelets amicably swung light strips of plaits and sang a song, and country women and girls in colour kumachovyh sundresses and in kichkah, with a beads from bugles or tied on-maiden scarfs raked up hay and drove round dances... Similar representation has been arranged and in Tsaritsyn situated near Moscow for Catherine II. More than ten theatres were in manors situated near Moscow. In the beginning of XIX century N.A.Durasova's serf theatre in manor Ljublino near Moscow (N.A.Durasova's second theatre was in manor CHeremshan beyond Volga) used the big popularity. N.A.Durasov has been awarded Sacred Anna's by award. In 1801 it has ordered to the architect And. V.Egotovu, to pupil M.F.Kazakova, the house project in Ljublino. This house had in respect of an award outline: the building represented ravnokonechnyj a cross with a round hall in the centre, semicircular colonnades in two ranks with modelled bas-reliefs on a facade. Two rectangular halls - columned and marble - have been decorated by painting, artificial marble, an art moulding. The central hall in which representations were given, has been painted grizajlju - the painting creating effect of a sculptural relief.

Englishwoman Ekaterina Vilmont (Uilmont) in ' Letters from Russia to Ireland ' wrote, that on a scene and in an orchestra of theatre of N.A.Durasova was more than hundred persons of actors and musicians. Despite the fact that what actors they were ' from a plough for a while ', played excellently. The owner of theatre regretted, that now time working-harvest and many actors on field works.