Literary and Artistic Cabaret of St. Petersburg

NadezhdaV 1912, more than 50 cabaret houses were raised the curtain in Moscow and St Petersburg alone. Most of them flared up and went out, leaving no trace. That is why newspaper and magazine publications of those years, covering the cultural life of Russia, are almost the main source for later evaluation of the work and life of literary and artistic courgette. Theatre columnists from major Russian newspapers and magazines looked at cabaret as a direct imitation of European small theatres. The opening cabaret was portrayed by journalists as a phenomenon of transient fashion, a kind of entertainment seeking to attract attention and earn more money. Such publications were opposed by serious material in theatre publications, whose authors tried to explain their passion for cabaret, to identify its origins and reasons. This work attempts to classify some of these materials. Many sources have been compared in order to gain an objective understanding of the way of life of literary and artistic cabaret created by the 1910s press in the minds of their audiences.