The Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow began as a private company run by Prince Pyotr Urusov and the English entrepreneur Michael Maddox, who received a privilege from Empress Catherine the Great. Its first theatre burned down in 1805, and later buildings were also destroyed by fire; the neoclassical façade was designed by Joseph Bove, and the present form dates from reconstruction after a fire in 1853. It became the leading home of Russian ballet and opera, premiering works by Tchaikovsky, whose Swan Lake was staged there in 1877. The theatre underwent a lengthy and costly renovation that reopened in 2011.
Before and after
- from June 1775 to October 1776Invasion of Quebec (1775)
- 17 June 1775Battle of Bunker Hill
- 16 December 1775Birth of Jane Austen
- 9 March 1776Publication of The Wealth of Nations
- 28 March 1776Construction of Bolshoi Theatre
- from 18 May 1776 to 27 May 1776Battle of The Cedars
- 29 June 1776Founding of San Francisco
- 4 July 1776United States Declaration of Independence
- 9 August 1776Birth of Amedeo Avogadro
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