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Special place have occupied in Kuskove theatres. ' It was presented to late my father to get a case nachalno small theatre, - recollected Nikolay Petrovich Sheremetev, - to what the musical thaw already enough got before promoted. The most capable people have been typed from serving in the house, playlets ' are accustomed to theatrical actions and igrany at first. Theatres in Kuskove it has been arranged a little: ' house ' - in a mansion, ' a Turkish booth ' and ' air theatre ' - in park, ' closed ' or ' old theatre ' - in one of beautiful places of park - Guy. Their scene was played by domestic serf actors: Peter Petrov, Andrey Chuhnov, Maria Tcherkasov, Arina Kalmykova; dancers: domestic Andrey Tyurin's daughters and Elizara Naporoshina - ' Tjuriha ' and ' Elizariha ', singers: Stepan and Stepanida Degtjarevy, Timothy and Tatyana Bedenkovy, musicians: Dmitry Trehvalov, Alexey Skvortsov, Has got hoarse Dolgonosoe, Vasily Zajtsev and others. The son of serf count manager Vasily Voroblevsky was the organizer of performances. '

How learnt actors, it is told in one of P.B.Sheremetev's orders: ' Having opened the new tenor with an excellent voice which would represent the actor to learn to sing at the Italian, to play. At Russian to bow and hands decently to argue. A dress singing should not carry, because this accustoms to go crookedly and meanly to feet and it is necessary a German caftan and boots '.

The Singing clothes, as a rule, were long.

In theatre repertoire at this time there were comedies And. P.Sumarokov, small comic operas, short foreign comedies.