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Old Theatre of Vilnius ( lt, Vilniaus senasis teatras) is a Russian-language theatre in Vilnius, the capital of
Lithuania Lithuania (; lt, Lietuva ), officially the Republic of Lithuania ( lt, Lietuvos Respublika, links=no ), is a country in the Baltic region of Europe. It is one of three Baltic states and lies on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea. Lithuania ...
. Performances in it are mainly held in Russian (or in Russian with Lithuanian subtitles), as well as in Lithuanian. It was established in 1864 by the actor of Alexandrinsky Theatre Pavel Vasilyev as Russian Drama Theatre (russian: Русский драматический театр, lt, Lietuvos rusų dramos teatras). At that time it was the only theatre in Vilnius. During the Second World War, the theatre was disestablished and re-established in 1946. Following the
2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine On 24 February 2022, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which began in 2014. The invasion has resulted in tens of thousands of deaths on both sides. It has caused Europe's largest refugee crisis since World War II. An ...
, the theatre was renamed the Old Theatre of Vilnius.


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