Viktor Kovalev

Review of summercamp (the Bolshoi theate...

In July 1820, the construction of a new theater be...

In July 1820, the construction of a new theater began, which was to become the center of the town-planning composition of the square and adjacent streets.
Even closer, on a wide area, stands the Petrovsky Theater, a work of modern art, a huge building made according to all the rules of taste, with a flat roof and a magnificent portico, on which rises the alabaster Apollo, standing on one leg in an alabaster chariot, motionlessly controlling three alabaster with horses and with vexation he gazes at the Kremlin wall, which jealously separates it from the ancient shrines of Russia!
M. Lermontov, youthful essay
"Panorama of Moscow"