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Moscow State Historical and Ethnographic Theatre Behind this reliable name is a unique team of professional dramatic actors and musicians whose performances combine folk dramatic art and theatre direction, ancient polyphonic singing and player skill, old Russian musical instruments, bright folk costumes and vivid popular language. The Historical and Ethnographic Theatre was established in 1988 by young actors led by Mikhail Mizyukov (now art director of the theatre), former students of the Russia's oldest M. S. Shchepkin Theatre College at the Maly Theatre. Since then the theatre produced following performances: "The Hour of God's Will" by N. S. Leskov, "Cossack Pageant", "Russian Calendar", "The Song of Fate" by A. A. Blok, "Folk Mosaic", "Shish of Moscow" by B. V. Shergin, "Love Feerie" by Lesya Ukrayinka, "A Fair at the Beginning of the Century", etc. For junior audience, the repertory of the theatre contents a series of plays based on Russian folktales: "The Sea King and Vasilisa the Wise", "Tale of Ivan-Tsarevitch, the Firebird and the Grey Wolf", "Winter Fairytale", "Go I Don't Know Where and Bring I Don't Know What", "The Magic Ring", "The Light-Moon and Ivan the Bogatyr", "Neznaiko and the Magic Mirror", "Marya-Morevna and Koschei the Deathless". Among large-scale performance projects accomplished by the theatre are: "Posadnik" by A. K. Tolstoy staged in the St. George's Cathedral of Yuryev Monastery in Novgorod (ordered by the International Foundation for Sl

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