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Catherine II, coming to Moscow, visited Kuskovo.

The Empress accepted here with unusual splendour. On a theatre scene executed operas and ballets. In one of such, arrivals have played an opera of the French composer And. E. M.Gretri ' Samnitsky marriages '. The French ambassador of columns Segjur accompanying Catherine II wrote: ' On fine theatre represented the big opera. Not knowing Russian language, I could judge only music and about ballet; the first has amazed me with pleasant harmony, last graceful riches of clothes, krasotoju, art of dancers and ease of men. More all seemed to me incomprehensible, that the poet and the musician who has written an opera, the architect who has constructed theatre, the painter who has decorated this, actors and the actresses, dancers and dancers in ballet, the musicians making an orchestra, all belonged to Sheremetev who carefully tried about education and their training to which they are borrowed by the talents... '