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The State Theater for Young Spectators (TYuZ) in St. Petersburg was founded in 1922 by the director, People's Artist of the USSR A. A. Bryantsev, who led the theater staff for almost 40 years. At the origins of the theater was professor N. N. Bakhtin, who in the theater directed the pedagogical aspects of working with young students, Professor V. I. Beyer, who was the main theater designer for about twenty years, outstanding actors E. N. Pashkov-Gorlov and P. P. Gorlov, composer P. A. Petrov-Boyarinov. Since the opening of the theater for many years N. M. Strelnikov, who wrote music for many performances.
The first staging of the Youth Theater "The Little Humpbacked Horse" took place in February 1922 on the stage of the former Tenishevsky School, which is on Mokhovaya. This production has become the hallmark of the collective. The hero of Ershov's fairy tale the Little Humpbacked Horse is the first emblem of the theater.
The poet and playwright S. Ya. Marshak, who wrote 2 or more plays for each season and headed the literary and repertoire parts. It was in the Youth Theater that the theatrical debut of director B. V. The zone, which staged the play "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" here in 1924.
The Youth Theater is a theater of three generations. His repertoire includes performances that are interesting to young people, teenagers, children. Since 1924, an impromptu children's parliament has been working in the theater for young spectators.
With the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, many people from Tyuz went to the front. The rest gave concerts with front-line brigades. Performances continued twice a day. The Youth Theater was evacuated in January 1942 to the small town of Berezniki, where he continued to work. There was no theater in Berezniki, but in spite of this, the residents of Tyuz played performances for both children and adults without any allowances for difficulties. The troupe returned to the roof of the theater on Mokhovaya in the summer of 1944.
The Youth Theater moved to Pionerskaya Square in 1962. This building was built specifically for children and has no analogues anywhere in the world. All the peculiarities of children's perception of the world and the theater were taken into account in the architectural details, design solutions, even in the color scheme.
The names of poets and playwrights E. Schwartz, S. Marshak, K. Paustovsky, V. Kataev, M. Roshchin, R. Pogodin, B. Okudzhava, G. Oster, L. Razumovskaya, V. Tendryakov, actors N. Cherkas, B. Freindlikh, B. Chirkov, V. Police. Yuri Kamorny, Rem Lebedev, Nina Mamaeva, Alexander Khochinsky, Nina Kazarinova, Olga Volkova, Georgy Taratorkin, Nina Drobysheva, Nikolai Lavrov began their journey here. The theater directors Leonid Makariev, Boris Zon, Pavel Veisbrem, Semyon Dimant, Lev Dodin worked at the Youth Theater.
In 1962-1985. The Youth Theater was led by the People's Artist of the USSR Z. Ya. Korogodsky. The performances of works by Mark Twain, Cervantes, A. Pushkin, A. Chekhov, Shakespeare, A. Ostrovsky, Moliere have become the brightest moments in the history of modern theater.
The theater was awarded the Order of Lenin. In 1980 TYuZu was named after its founder - A. A. Bryantsev.
The Theater for Young Spectators was headed by Sergey Konstantinovich Kargin, Andrey Dmitrievich Andreev, Grigory Mikhailovich Kozlov, Anatoly Arkadevich Praudin. Since September 2007, the St. Petersburg Youth Theater has been headed by the director, President of the Russian branch of the International Association of Theaters for Children and Youth (ASSITEZH) A. Ya. Shapiro.
The repertoire of the collective of the Theater of Young Spectators includes about 30 plays, the target audience of which is both children and adults. Theatrical performances are carried out by leading directors of Russia, far and near abroad. The works of the Youth Theater have been repeatedly awarded the highest national and international prizes and awards.
Every year the St. Petersburg Theater of Young Spectators holds the international festival "Rainbow", a festival of children's groups, is the curator and direct participant of the project "Rainbow-Baltia", the target audience of which is Russian-speaking residents of the Baltic countries.
