The recently closed Gogol Center could reopen as a restaurant where former theater actors worked on the project. This is reported by the IGutsal telegram channel.

channel says.

There is no official confirmation of this information yet.

At the end of June, the Moscow Ministry of Culture dismissed the artistic director of the Gogol Center Alexei Agranovich. Then the creator and first artistic director of the Gogol Center, Kirill Serebrennikov, announced the closure of the theater. – wrote on the telegram channel.

Serebrennikov suggested that the decision to close may be due to the theater staff’s opposition to the Russian Federation’s military special operation in Ukraine. The director himself also opposed the military special operation and left Russia.

At the same time, the cultural department refused to completely close the theater, adding that the artistic director and director of the Gogol Center had changed: “the reason for this was the termination of business relations and the termination of employment contracts with the former management of institutions.” Anton Yakovlev became the new artistic director of the theater.