Leningrad Theatre of the Estrada and the Miniature
Soviet theater
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career of Raikin
- In Arkady Isaakovich Raikin
…opened his own theatre, the Leningrad Theatre of the Estrada and the Miniature, where he offered homespun homilies and satirical skits (called “miniatures”). Over the years, he toured the Soviet Union and occasionally abroad but remained based in Leningrad (St. Petersburg) until 1984, when he moved his company to Moscow…
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