Sketches of Russian Life in the Caucasus Author:Mikhail I?U?r?evich Lermontov Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: anil Gogol have done for even less attractive branches of literature.. It cannot also but. be admitted that the greatest possible facilities have ever boon .a... more »nd are still afforded to the development of dramatic talent:inevery, form,. During the reign of his late Majesty,.,'Alexander, and. at present underNicholas the First, the .theatres. and the artistes of St. Petersburgh and Moscow have been.,encouraged by the immediate imperial patronage, and.are amply salaried fromthe privy purse. In illustration of this imperial munificence, I subjoin an account of the different professional persons who were included in the management of the Imperial Theatres at St. Petersburgh during the year 1850. Male. Female. Total. Actors . ... . .374 109 573 Actresses and ladies of the Corps do Ballet . . . . . — 320 320 I'm]ills of the Dramatic Academy . 70 95 165 Musicians . . . 309 202 571 Chorus . . . (... 72 4S 120 Employes, workmen, and supernumeraries 475 200 735 During the season at St. Petersburgh, which continues the whole of the winter, tho inhabitants and. visitors may choose their amusements between the Italian, G erman and Russian operas, the Russian and French plays, orthe ballet, for there are always from three to four foreign dramatic corps in that superb city at this time, and, without even the exception of Sunday, the performances take place every evening at each of the Imperial Theatres in rotation. If we turn to the consideration of historical science in Russia, we find that the archaeological commission' was opened in 1834, and Actretses.—Under this head are included the ladies who perform in the poses plastiqves, which, together with concerts, are given during Lent, and consist principally of historical representations. the libraries of F...« less