The premiere of "Pushkin's Dreams" took place at the Luzhniki Stadium

The secular gala premiere of a large-scale theatrical circus show based on the fairy tales of the Russian writer and poet Alexander Pushkin took place at the Luzhniki Stadium. The play "Pushkin's Dreams" was the result of a creative experiment by the New Russian Circus.

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The works "Ruslan and Lyudmila", "The Tale of the Dead Princess", "The Tale of Tsar Saltan", "The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish", "The Tale of the Priest and his employee Balda", "The Tale of the Golden Cockerel" were chosen for the show. Timur Ochilov will appear in the image of Pushkin.

"When we were writing the script, we not only studied Pushkin's diaries, and also analyzed the perception of fairy tales using artificial intelligence, but also digitized the poet's personality," Elizabeth Hamburg, general director of the New Russian Circus, creative producer of the show Pushkin's Dreams, told Izvestia.

Pushkin himself becomes the guide and hero of these fantasy worlds, where Lukomorye, Buyan Island and underwater palaces come to life. This is not a retelling of classic plots, but a phantasmagoria born in the poet's dreams to the lullaby of the nurse: dreams where reality is intertwined with fiction. The end—to-end plot is Pushkin's fate, shown through the prism of his dreams and creativity.

The show will run until September 21, 2025 at the Druzhba Universal Sports Hall in Luzhniki.

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