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The Coryphaeus Theater is the first professional Ukrainian theater. It was opened in 1882 in the then Elisavtgrad (now Kropivnitsky), and this year the Ukrainian theater was separated from Polish and Russian. The founder of the theater was Marco Lukich Kropivnytsky, who had all theater professions. After him the most active was Nikolai Karpovich Sadovsky, who fought for the Ukrainian word and Ukrainian theater during their prohibition.

The names of Mariya Zankovetska, Panas Saksagansky are also associated with the Coryphaeus Theater.

The style of the syncretic theater, combining a dramatic and comedic action with musical, vocal scenes, including choral and dance ensembles, struck by purely folk freshness and incompatibility with any existing theater.

The origin of the term
In 1901, the book "Curiosities of the Ukrainian Scene" was published in Kyiv, which was written anonymously by leading Ukrainian intellectuals through censorship. In it Mark Kropivnitsky, Mykhailo Starytsky, Ivan Tobilevich and others were named for the first time as the luminaries of the Ukrainian theater. This somewhat poetic term has become inseparable with the theater

History
In 1881, after years of struggle of the Coryphaeus, Ukrainians were given the opportunity to put their plays in Ukrainian. With all the limitations and conventions (before Russian performances had to take place), this step of the Ministry of Internal Affairs was still legalized by the Ukrainian theater.

In 1885 the only theatrical corporation was divided: Marco Kropivnitsky with his actors separated from Mikhail Staritsky and his supporters. Both teams immediately began an independent creative life. Everywhere, where Ukrainian actors gave performances, they had unchanging success. In 1907, Nikolai Karpovich Sadovsky managed to open the first stationary Ukrainian theater in Kiev.

In the repertoire of the theater were such performances as "Zaporozhetsy after the Danube", "Sold Bride", "Pebble", "Kateryna", and "Aneida" Kotlyarevsky. A bold victory was the production of Gogol's "Revisor" in Ukrainian.

Mykola Sadovsky made his stationary theater truly popular not only in the repertoire, but also in the availability of his visit. Ticket prices were significantly lower than other Kyiv theaters.

The Sadovsky Theater lasted seven years before the start of the First World War (1914), when the authorities closed not only the theater, but all Ukrainian newspapers, magazines, bookstores.