Lensovet Theatre

As Stalinist repression arose against "Meyerholdism" in the mid-1930s, Kroll was dismissed and actor, director and teacher Boris Mikhailovich Sushkevich appointed.

[citation needed] The troupe's first home was in a building acquired by the Lensovet on Nevsky Prospekt, which formerly housed a Dutch church; however, this was destroyed by fire.

[1] The name derives from Leningrad Council of People Deputies, or Lensovet, which was succeeded by the Legislative Assembly of Saint Petersburg in 1994.

In 1960, Igor Petrovich Vladimirov, a student of Georgy Tovstonogov, took up the post as director, where he remained until his death in 1996.

Young artists such as Konstantin Khabensky, Mikhail Porechenkov, Andrei Zibrov, and many others were recruited, and performances began to participate in festivals and to win awards.

The theatre building is located at 12 Vladimirski Prospekt, the historic neoclassical mansion built in 1920 (1828?