Art Theatre [Moscow]
type: Item
label: Moskevské umělecké divadlo A. P. Čechova @cs
description: Theatre building in Moscow, Russia
description: theater in Moskou @nl
alternative label: Art Theatre
EUTA building identifier: 1215
Importance: Not rated
Type of information: Performance venue
Field: architecture
Country: Russia
City: Moscow
GPS: Point(37.6133 55.76)
Wikidata source: Q4304021
opening date: 1898-01-01T00:00:00Z
Address: Камергерский переулок
Web: mxat.ru
architect: Mikhail Nikolayevich Chichagov
Redevelopment date: 1900-01-01T00:00:00Z
Wikidata instance: Q2319498
Wikidata instance: Q41176
Carthalia ID: 5620
Preservation state: extant building
Preservation state: Used as theatre today
Note: Built 1902 by Fyodor Schechtel. Home to the Moskovitsky Khudozhestvenny teatr [MKhAT; Moscow Art Theatre] company, also known as Dramaticheksy teatr imeni Stanislavskovo i Nemirovich-Danchenko after Konstantin Sergeyevich Stanislavski (1863-1938) and Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko (1858-1943) who had founded the company in 1898. In Soviet times named Teatr soyuza SSR imeni Maxima Gorkovo. - When the MKhAT company split in two companies in the 1990s, one of the companies was renamed MKhat im. Antonina Chekhova in honour of the Russian author, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904) and continued to use the building on Kamergersky Pereulok. The other MKhAT building on Tverskoy Bulvar became home to the MKhat im. Maxima Gorkovo.