Boris Pokrovsky Chamber Stage
(Nikolskaya, 17)

Premiered at the Boris Pokrovsky Musical Theatre on September 12, 1974.

Sung in Russian with English surtitles.

Presented with one interval.

Running time: 2 hours 15 minutes.
Libretto by Yevgeny Zamyatin, Georgy Ionin, Alexander Preis and Dmitry Shostakovich based on the novel of the same name by Nikolai Gogol

Conductor of the premiereGennady Rozhdestvensky 
Stage DirectorBoris Pokrovsky
Set Designer: Viktor Talalay
Choreographer: Lilia Talankina
Lighting Designer: Vladimir Ivakin

Sergei Ostroumov <br>as Police Inspector. <br> Photo: archive of the Boris Pokrovsky Musical Theatre.
Sergei Ostroumov
as Police Inspector.
Photo: archive of the Boris Pokrovsky Musical Theatre.
A scene from the performance. <br> Photo: archive of the Boris Pokrovsky Musical Theatre.
A scene from the performance.
Photo: archive of the Boris Pokrovsky Musical Theatre.
Evgeny Boluchevsky as Platon Kuzmich Kovalyov. <br> Photo: archive of the Boris Pokrovsky Musical Theatre.
Evgeny Boluchevsky as Platon Kuzmich Kovalyov.
Photo: archive of the Boris Pokrovsky Musical Theatre.
German Yukavsky as a Doctor, <br> Boris Druzhinin as Ivan. <br> Photo: archive of the Boris Pokrovsky Musical Theatre.
German Yukavsky as a Doctor,
Boris Druzhinin as Ivan.
Photo: archive of the Boris Pokrovsky Musical Theatre.
German Yukavsky as a Doctor,Evgeny Boluchevsky as Platon Kuzmich Kovalyov. <br> Photo: archive of the Boris Pokrovsky Musical Theatre.
German Yukavsky as a Doctor,Evgeny Boluchevsky as Platon Kuzmich Kovalyov.
Photo: archive of the Boris Pokrovsky Musical Theatre.
Irina Narskaya as Pelageya Grigorievna Podtochina, <br> Olesya Starukhina as Mrs Podtochina’s daughter. <br> Photo: archive of the Boris Pokrovsky Musical Theatre.
Irina Narskaya as Pelageya Grigorievna Podtochina,
Olesya Starukhina as Mrs Podtochina’s daughter.
Photo: archive of the Boris Pokrovsky Musical Theatre.
Zlata Rubinova as Seller, Olesya Starukhina as Mrs Podtochina’s daughter. <br> Photo: archive of the Boris Pokrovsky Musical Theatre.
Zlata Rubinova as Seller, Olesya Starukhina as Mrs Podtochina’s daughter.
Photo: archive of the Boris Pokrovsky Musical Theatre.
A scene from the performance. <br> Photo: archive of the Boris Pokrovsky Musical Theatre.
A scene from the performance.
Photo: archive of the Boris Pokrovsky Musical Theatre.
Nikolay Shchemlev as Platon Kuzmich Kovalyov. <br> Photo: archive of the Boris Pokrovsky Musical Theatre.
Nikolay Shchemlev as Platon Kuzmich Kovalyov.
Photo: archive of the Boris Pokrovsky Musical Theatre.
Leonid Kazachkov as Nos. <br> Photo: archive of the Boris Pokrovsky Musical Theatre.
Leonid Kazachkov as Nos.
Photo: archive of the Boris Pokrovsky Musical Theatre.
A scene from the performance. <br> Photo: archive of the Boris Pokrovsky Musical Theatre.
A scene from the performance.
Photo: archive of the Boris Pokrovsky Musical Theatre.