A new play from the man who helped write Russia’s history textbooks tackles the Decembrists’ assassination of a tsarist general

Source: Teatral

The Maly Theater will stage a play about the Decembrist uprising written by Vladimir Medinsky in its 2026/2027 season, the theater’s actor Vladimir Dubrovsky said in an interview with the newspaper Tula.aif.ru.

Dubrovsky gave the interview after a Maly Theater performance in Tula of another Medinsky play, “Smuta, 1609–1611.” He called Medinsky “one of the most popular” authors and was then asked whether he watches Medinsky’s lectures.

Yes, I watch them with pleasure. What’s more, Medinsky has written a new play about the Decembrists. Its protagonist is Miloradovich, who was shot dead on Senate Square. It withholds judgment on whether that shooting was right or wrong. What it insists on is that an act took place. The play is slated to premiere next season at the Maly Theater.

The magazine Teatral reports that Maly Theater chief director Alexei Dubrovsky will direct the production. Dmitry Kharatyan will play Miloradovich.

Vladimir Medinsky was Russia’s minister of culture from 2012 to 2020 before becoming an aide to President Vladimir Putin. He also leads the Russian Military Historical Society, a body he created on his own initiative — despite not being a trained historian, and despite a dissertation that critics say has little to do with actual scholarship. He’s also a co-author of Russia’s unified history textbooks used in schools.

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