institution
Alexandrinsky Theatre
Alexandrinsky
also: Александринка, Александринский театр, Alexandrinsky, Alexandrinka
The Imperial Alexandrinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, the leading state-run dramatic stage of the period, whose repertoire section was managed in the 1880s by the playwright Alexei Potekhin. The noble father in "The Critic" savages the theater and its management as evidence Petersburg's acting has declined; the theater was in fact the empire's premier dramatic institution.
Reading notes
- The Critic §53 smoke Potekhin out of your Alexandrinsky
The noble father's drunken fantasy of purging the entire Imperial Alexandrinsky troupe and importing a harsher provincial manager is the story's punchline: having spent the whole night claiming Russian acting talent has vanished, his actual plan is simply to restore the old-fashioned bullying management style he elsewhere idealizes as "keeping the company on a tight leash."
- To I. L. Leontyev, 2 November 1888. Moscow. §10 the Alexandrinsky
The Imperial Alexandrinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, the leading state-run dramatic stage of the period, to which Tikhonov advises submitting "The Bear" -- a Petersburg venue distinct from Korsh's private Moscow playhouse where the play has just been performed.
- To A. N. Pleshcheyev, 30 December 1888. Moscow. §6 the Alexandrinsky
Renders "Александринке," the colloquial diminutive of the Alexandrinsky Theatre; normalized here to "the Alexandrinsky" per the established convention of this corpus (cf. letter 3-517, where the same colloquial form "Александринка"/"Alexandrinka" is likewise normalized to "the Alexandrinsky"). Same institution (institution:alexandrinsky-theatre) as elsewhere in the corpus, not a separate venue.
- To I. L. Leontyev, 11 March 1889. Moscow. §5 the Alexandrinsky
The Imperial Alexandrinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, the leading state dramatic stage of the period and Davydov's prospective venue for "The Proposal."
- To I. L. Leontyev, 12 April 1889. Moscow. §4 Imperial theater
"Казенная сцена" ("the Crown stage"), i.e. the state-run Imperial theaters (chiefly the Alexandrinsky in Petersburg), as distinct from private stages such as Korsh's in Moscow.