The Moscow Academic Satire Theater is a dramatic theater in Moscow located on Triumfalnaya Square.
It opened on October 1, 1924. The first performance of the theater was Moscow from the Viewpoint by V. Tipot and N. Erdman.
By 1930, the theater moved to a new auditorium that seated more than 800 spectators. In 1951, it moved to a building on Malaya Bronnaya Street. In 1953, it began to stage performances after stage plays The Bathhouse, The Bedbug and Mystery Buff by V. Mayakovsky. Significant events were the productions of Was there Ivan Ivanovich? by N. Hikmet, Tyorkin in the Other World by A. Tvardovsky and Profitable Place by A. Ostrovsky.
The main productions in the 1960s were Don Juan, or The Love of Geometry by M. Frisch, The Mad Day, or The Marriage of Figaro by P. Beaumarchais, The Inspector General by N. Gogol, Woe from Wit by A. Griboyedov and others.
In 1984, the Ministry of Culture of the USSR awarded the theater the title of Academic Theater. In 2015, the Satire Theater was recognized as one of the most visited Moscow theaters.
The envelope with a commemorative stamp provides an image of the building of the Moscow Academic Satire Theater; the commemorative stamp features four actor's emotion masks symbolizing theatrical genres and the emblem of the theater.
| Denomination |
Paper |
Printing method |
Format of the envelope |
Edition |
| Letter “A” |
High Whiteness Modified (HWM) |
Offset |
110 × 220 mm |
0,5 million copies |