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The auditorium and theatre foyer amazed visitors of the prince with riches of furniture. One of contemporaries - Miljukov, the young man the visited this theatre, wrote about deep impression which was left by this theatre: ' Extensive halls with damask wall-paper, marble fireplaces and gilt furniture, obveshannye the pictures, filled with statues, seemed halls from a magic fairy tale. In the top floor the wide gallery conducted in hen house... On other gallery transition in a winter garden with curtains of smelling sweet colours and with numbers of the paths which arranged with exotic trees and bushes and have been led round by lanes from wild grapes opened. In the middle, over pool, the high fountain ' rose. When Miljukov read later ' Ruslana and Lyudmila ' Pushkin at the description of magic gardens CHernomora involuntarily recollected greenhouse JUsupova; especially that time when looked through its glass walls at the court yard covered with snow and streets. From a winter garden there was a special exit in princely theatre.

' Something this extensive hall shined with a chandelier and set kenketov, bordered with a threefold belt of the boxes, filled with rows of seats and closed by a landscape of which the curtain was not suspected yet seemed fantastic. On the average a belt, it is direct against this picturesque scene, the big box draped with a green velvet over which the board with the princely arms towered was allocated. Before a box playtime rows of seats izchezali under continuous weight of uniforms and dress coats were filled with magnificently dressed women, and. The princely box was still empty. In a hall the deaf person, a reserved rumble rushed. But suddenly all has broken off: men have risen and have addressed to a green box, in it the prince has seemed. It was the low grey-haired old man in a dress coat, with zvezdoju '. With it some men and ladies from whom one as have told Miljukovu, was the dancer operating princely ballet have entered. Possibly, it was Gjullen-rubbish. The prince has sat down with the visitors, the orchestra has rung out, and the curtain has soon risen. The Zephyr and Flora ' gave ballet '. Miljukov has for the first time seen a theatrical scene and on it in the middle of greens and colours crowd of flitting ballerinas in any air dresses. He wrote, that did not know still then, that all personnel of troupe - and musicians in an orchestra, both dancers, and dancers - were serf people of the prince. To it and to a head did not come, that this grandee on serf ballet has driven on many waggons, from mothers-fathers ottorzhennyh children...