Moscow Art Theatre, Theatre company in Moscow, Russia

The Moscow Art Theatre is a theatre company founded in 1898 by Konstantin Stanislavski and Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko. Since 1902 it has performed in a building in Kamergersky Lane, rebuilt by architect Fyodor Shekhtel with funds from Savva Morozov. The auditorium seats 1,200, and the entrance bears Anna Golubkina's plaster bas-relief "Wave".

Konstantin Stanislavski and Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko founded the company in October 1898 as an experiment for a new kind of theatre. Later it split in 1987 into two institutions that each took different names and artistic directions.

The venue carries Anton Chekhov's name and regularly stages his plays, which continue to draw audiences and keep the writer's legacy alive. Visitors experience here a performance style based on psychological depth, where actors behave as real people rather than performing in an exaggerated manner.

The theatre stands in Kamergersky Lane, not by Red Square, so plan the walk from Tverskaya or Teatralnaya metro. The auditorium holds 1,200 seats, and the main entrance is on the right, marked by Anna Golubkina's plaster bas-relief "Wave".

The theatre's emblem, a seagull flying over the waves, was sketched by architect Fyodor Shekhtel for the curtain of the 1902 building. It refers to Chekhov's play The Seagull, whose 1898 premiere made the company famous. The right entrance is decorated with Anna Golubkina's plaster bas-relief The Wave.