Playwrights and their stage works 

Nikolay Nikolayevich Yevreinov

(1879-1953)

Russian theatre director-producer, theorist, critic, and dramatist. Beginning as a music and law student, and after a brief stint as an actor, Yevreinov founded in St. Petersburg the Theatre of Yore (Starinnyi Teatr, 1908-1912), dedicated to the production of pre-realistic drama — mediaeval moralities, commedia dell'arte and pastorales

Stage Plays

  1. A Gay Death (Vesyolaya smert, 1909) - Produced St. Petersburg, Merry Theatre for Grown-up Children, 1909.
  2. The Spectacle of Love (Predstavleniye lyubvi, 1909)
  3. Backstage of the Soul (V kulisakh dushi, 1912) - Produced St. Petersburg, Krivoye Zerkalo Theatre, October 14, 1912.
  4. The Fourth Wall (Chetvyortaya stena, 1915) - Produced St. Petersburg, Krivoye Zerkalo Theatre, December 22, 1915.
  5. The Storming of the Winter Palace (Vzyatiye zimnego dvorsta, 1920)
  6. The Chief Thing (Samoye glavnoye, 1921)