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Famous theatre, now dedicated to Maxim Gorky, founded by Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko in 1898. It soon gave a successful production of Chekhov's The Seagull, which had recently failed at another ...

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in The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre (2) Length: 325 words
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