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Contemporaries told, that in Moscow almost in everyone ' the house with columns ' were concert or an auditorium for visiting foreign or actors. To it it is possible to add, that near to such theatre there was a hostel for serf actresses and actors.

On Znamenka there was a big house of general S. S.Apraksin (the son of the general field marshal, the participant of Seven-year war). P.A.Vjazemsky wrote, that this house has been intended to become ' an art temple '. The owner of theatre did not regret expenses. It has ordered to poet Merzljakovu to translate into Russian the libretto of opera Fiorovanti ' Rural singers '. Contemporaries recollected: when staged an opera ' Diana and Endimion ', spectators heard sounds of the hunting horns, bark of dogs was distributed and on a scene live deer ran out.

Along with serfs in apraksinskom theatre actors acted known ' free ': buff Malakhov and singer-tenor Peter Aleksandrovich Bulahov (1793-1835) (the father of composer P.P.Bulahova). P.A.Bulahov perfectly executed in the Bolshoi theatre ' the Black shawl ' Pushkin on A.N.Verstovskogo's music. ' It the first singer to Russia and one of the first in Europe ', - wrote in the newspaper of that time.

On September, 4th, 1817 on a scene of theatre of Apraksin debuted P.S.Mochalov in V.A.Ozerov's tragedy ' Edip in Athenes '. It became ' to one of gold dates in history of Russian theatre '.

In 1818 well-known French actress George here acted. Its game has caused brisk disputes among theatre-goers. George great Russian actress E.S.Semenova acted in the same roles, as. Followers of the French actress have been compelled to recognise the superiority of the daughter of serf actors of E.S.Semenovoj.