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Abstract

Andrei Bely’s Peterburg on Moscow Stage : Sergey Golomazov's Production." In this paper, I examine Sergey Golomazov's production of Andrey Bely's Peterburg, set on the stage of the Gogol theater in Moscow from 1998 to 2004. The paper, based on the actual production and on the study of the materials that cover the only other significant production of the play the Bely-Mikhail Chekhov production of 1925 -juxtaposes the recent Golomazov production with its original predecessor. My major point in this paper is that in his approach to the staging of the play, Golomazov borrows the elements of farce from Bely's stage adaptation of the novel, his play Gibel Senatora. At the same time, in his overall approach, Golomazov, who wrote the script for his contemporary production, stays closer to the novel Peterburg by trying to expose the ambivalent nature of the father-son conflict and the moral underpinnings of the novel. I also quote from several sources to demonstrate the reception of both productions, which was mostly negative in the Russia of the 1920's and decidedly positive in contemporary Russia. For my secondary sources, I have relied mostly on Russian and American literary criticism and on my personal interview with Sergey Golomazov, currently the artistic director of the Malaya Bronnaya Theater.