The idea of the theater belongs to Maxim Gorky, as well as the Commissioner of theaters and circuses and actress Maria Andreeva. In August 1918, MF Andreeva signed a decree on the establishment of Petrograd “theater of tragedy, romantic drama and high comedy,” today . world-famous by the acronym BDT
One of the founders of the theater was also an artist, who later became a director at the BDT -. Alexander Benois
basis of the troupe made actors of Theatre and drama Theatre artistic tragedy. In December, the first meeting of the troupe, and began rehearsals of two plays.
Bolshoi Drama opened on February 15, 1919 in the premises of the Great Hall of the Conservatory play “Don Carlos” on the play by Friedrich Schiller, which went exactly five hours, and the Conservatory was not heated. Despite the fact that he was bitter cold, every evening the hall was filled with spectators, and nobody left.
In 1920, BTC has received at their disposal in a former Maly Theatre (Theatre Suvorin) on the Fontanka, 65, which is located in the moment .