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Review of summercamp (the Bolshoi theate...

The theater is located in the same place where the...

The theater is located in the same place where the Petrovsky theater stood, which had been inaugurated in 1780 and which was burned down in 1805. In 1819 a competition was announced for the new theater project; the competition was won by Andrej Michajlov. However, his project was deemed to be too expensive, so Moscow governor Dmitry Vladimirovich Golicyn commissioned architect Giuseppe Bove to modify it. The work on the new project began in 1820 and the new Gran (Bol' oj) Petrovsky Theater was inaugurated on January 18, 1825 with the ballet Cendrillon by Fernando Sor.