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The drama theatre had smaller success in public. Gogol, for example, wrote, that ballet and an opera is a tsar and the tsarina of the Petersburg scene. Of noble family to intelligency preferred the French performances. Some Russian plays iskazhenno represented a life of peasants: the landowner represented to them the kind barin who cares of the wards.

In 1783 in Petersburg the Stone (Big) theatre has been constructed. Its repertoire was made by opera and drama performances. In troupe there were actors: the outstanding singer (bass) J.S.Vorobev, pupil Maroketti and And. V.Dmitrevskogo.

Sparrows was not only the opera singer, but also the outstanding comedian-buffom. It executed parties Ligarda, Torop (' the Prince-invisible being ', ' the Ilja-athlete ' K.Kavosa), Tarabara (' Lesta, dneprovskaja the mermaid ' F.Kauera and S.Davidov), Bartalo (' the Seville barber ', or ' Vain precaution ' J. Paiziello). In troupe acted as E.S.Sandunova, N.S.Semenova, And. M.Krutitsky, P.V.Zlov, E.I.Kolosov, M.I.Danilov, E.I.Andrejanova, outstanding dancer A.I.Istomin and others.