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Serf actors were at the prince I. M.Dolgorukogo. The prince took part in amateur court performances in a palace at Paul I and on an amateur scene at N. P.Sheremetev. The Writer-memoirist With. P.Zhiharev wrote that the theatre was passion And. M.Dolgorukogo, performances at it were the best in Moscow. Except serf troupe, at Dolgorukogo actors-fans played: F.F.Kokoshkin, And. M.Pushkin, etc. The prince always was in roles comic. Its game was excellent, easy natural and free: looking at it, all died from a laughter.

And. M.Dolgoruky - the poet, the author of a popular poem ' the Fireplace in Penza ' (1795), comedies ' Despair without grief ', operas ' Love magic ', the diaries, several poetic and prosaic products. In a poem ' I ' he wrote:

I Studied in everything, but the success in that was bad:

The Science aside, and I became the buffoon,

I Dance, I sing, rezvljus, comedies I play...

The Prince was proud of the accessory to theatre: the important imperial dignitary, the governor and the statesman appeared in streets of Moscow in the strange suit consisting ' in clothes semi-regimental and semi-actor's from a dress igrannyh by it of roles '.

Some landowners forced the actors to execute performances, not quite ' decent '. It can be carried and to Dolgorukomu. Known statesman F. V.Rostopchin wrote to the friend R.Vorontsovu's column S. that during house performance at And. M.Dolgorukogo was said by things, ' hardly tolerant at fair '.