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  1. Arkhangelskoye Pietro Gonzaga teatr: 1817
  2. Arkhangelskoye Pietro Gonzaga teatr 1817: stage #1
  3. Arkhangelskoye Pietro Gonzaga teatr 1817: stage #2
  4. Arkhangelskoye: Privileged at Front Seats, Less Privieged on Benches
  5. Arkhangelskoye: Loges

No photographs at all, are permitted of the Arkhangelskoye Pietro Gonzaga teatr. Why? Claims are made of the theatre, but the claims are a bit expansive. To be precise, the claims are groundless, and photographs would clearly show this. Lets examine these claims.

  1. Flats exist, but are moved manually. No machinery exists under the stage attached to the flats to move them. No ropes, no pulleys, no winding machinery. The flats must be moved manually. Indeed, the vertical space under the stage decreases from a maximum of about 4' to about 2'. There is not adequate understage space for machinery to move flats (or trap doors for people to descend under the stage, unless dwarfs are used for actors or singers).
  2. No linear perspective is in evidence, none at all! Not painted on flats for example. A loge is set aside for the "presence" (Tsar), but is not designed to take advantage of perspective. Linear perspecive is ignored in this theatre.
  3. No machinery such as wind machines, rolling thunder machines, rain machines, or wave machines. No aerial machines can be seen, either.
  4. As an interesting note, the orchestra pit is separated from the main audience, at the same level. However, the Yousapov theatre at the Yusupov estate in Saint Petersburg has the orchestra pit at 10 meters below the level of the main audience level! The members of the orchestra must not contaminate the people in the audience! Music is not so significant! There are no "blind loges" for the orchestra. How significant is music at the Yusupov Arkhangelskoye Pietro Gonzaga teatr?

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