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Soon it was offered to Greg to train in actor's art of Russian petty-bourgeois and podjacheskih children. The life of the first Russian actors was heavy. The actor ' Vaska Meshalkin with companions ' complained to the tsar: '... On your great sovereign to the decree have sent us holopej yours, in a German large village for studying of comedy business to master Jaganu Gotfretu, and your great sovereign of the salary, a stern to us, holopjam by yours it is made nothing, and nowadays we, platishkom were peeled and sapozhishkami were enclosed, and to drink-is there is nothing, and we die, holopi yours, starvation... Pardon us holopej yours: conducted, a sovereign to us... The salary on livelihood a day forage to make, that to us... Being at that comedy business, starvation not to die... '

Theatrical representations went in Moscow in Pharmaceutical chambers. With Alexey Mihajlovicha's death in 1676 there has come a long break in theatrical business. Vague data on individual theatrical performances in the end of XVII century, for example in 1685 in village situated near Moscow Izmaylov at tsarina Praskovi Fedorovny - wives of one of sons of tsar Alexey Mihajlovicha have remained. In the Moscow with success theatre Kunsta in 1702-1707 About during same time acted theatrical performances in village Preobrazhenskiy for one of daughters of tsar Alexey Mihajlovicha - Natalia were carried out. Later tsarevna Natalia Alekseevna has moved to Petersburg, and there with 1711 for 1716 theatrical performances have renewed.