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Did not manage and without funny things. At serf theatre of landowner Ganin illiterate plays of the owner were played. The author acted in them in a role ' dumb animals ', appearing before public on all fours in quality ' fierce tigers '. Ganin's serf actors during holidays served visitors behind a table: women have been dressed by nymphs, naiads, sylphs. They submitted dishes and various wines. Men in suits satirov and selenov danced.

We will stop on the description of serf theatre which V.A.Vsevolozhskomu belonged. This grandee has grown rich on operation hydrochloric kopej, zhelezodelatelnyh factories, gold mines and coal mines in Urals Mountains. In Petersburg it had a palace in which 160 rooms were; nearby to Okhta, in 20 versts from capital, there was a manor Rjabovo. At Vsevolozhsk there were 400 persons of servants.

Serfs have drained the marshy earths in Ryabov, have transformed into park of coast of picturesque lakes, have laid over 25 versts of roads, have constructed a capacious mansion with a special auditorium and stsenoju. In 1822 of the serf! Mechanic A.K.Kazantsev has constructed here one of the first in Russia! Installations for development of lighting gas (the first gas lanterns have appeared in Petersburg in 1839).

Own serf troupe which acted in its palaces was Pride Vsevolozhsk. Serf actors put comedies and vaudevilles. Music for them was written by composers Verstovsky and Maurer.