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Bolshoi Theatre
the Bolshoi
also: Большой театр
Moscow's grand opera and ballet house, one of the city's premier theatres and a mark of the metropolitan culture available to the family after leaving provincial Taganrog.
Reading notes
- Poems and Dubia (school-age and disputed juvenilia) §571 The Maly Theatre
Real Moscow imperial theater, one of several named venues assessed (unfavorably) in this satirical roundup of the state of Moscow's stages.
- To Yu. I. Lyadova, 18 November 1879. Moscow. §5 the Bolshoi
Moscow's grand opera and ballet house, one of the city's premier theatres and a mark of the metropolitan culture the family now had access to after leaving provincial Taganrog.
- A Reporter's Dream §21 Bolshoi Theater
Moscow's grand opera and ballet house, whose "sixth tier" (the cheapest, highest gallery) makes the dreamer's plunge a comic fall from the heights of society back to his own modest station.
- Problems of a Madman Mathematician §3 Bolshoi Theater
Moscow's grand opera and ballet house; its New Year's masquerade balls, open to a paying public and often rowdy, were a well-known venue for exactly the kind of scuffle this problem imagines.