Gogol Center Archive

Gogol Center was a theater center created in 2012 at Gogol Moscow Drama Theater by artistic director Kirill Serebrennikov. The repertoire consisted of performances by the center’s permanent residents, Studio Seven (Serebrennikov's students at the Moscow Art Theater School), the company Dialogue Dance, and the studio SounDrama. The center had a bookstore, a café, and a media library with recordings of performances from Russia and Europe. It also hosted a wide variety of cultural events, including meetings with important cultural figures, film screenings, concerts, and exhibitions. In February 2021, Kirill Serebrennikov resigned as the center’s artistic director and was replaced by actor Aleksey Agranovich. In June 2022, the Department of Culture of Moscow announced a change in the theater's management team and the reinstatement of its former name.

The Gogol Center archive consists of two parts, electronic and paper. The electronic archive (2013–2022) includes photographs and videos. The paper archive (2009–2019) includes a collection of Russian and foreign press cuttings about the activities of the theater and projects by its actors. It also contains internal documents (related to productions, the repertoire, ticket prices, discounts, administrative orders, hall diagrams), ephemera (booklets, programs, flyers), award plaques, statuettes of various awards, and award certificates.

The archive materials enable researchers to study the repertoire policy and public activities of one of the brightest phenomena on the Moscow‑and Russian‑theater scene of the 2010s, and to trace the creative development of numerous actors and directors.