Warsaw Theatre Directorate

The Warsaw Theatre Directorate (Warszawskie Teatry Rządowe) was the chief authority for theatres in the Duchy of Warsaw in Warsaw during the 19th and early 20th centuries. It was set up by decree of Frederick Augustus I of Saxony on 14 April 1810 as the Rządowa Dyrekcja Teatru (Government Directorate for Theatre), its draft statute having been developed by Wojciecha Bogusławskiego. In 1822 it changed its name to Dyrekcja Teatrów i Wszelkich Widowisk Dramatycznych i Muzycznych w Królestwie (Directorate of all theatres and dramatic and musical performance in the Kingdom), then in 1833 to the Warsaw Theatre Directorate. It ceased to exist in July 1915.

It guided theatrical output and provided theatres with financial stability, enabling shows in Polish to be put on and new theatre buildings to be constructed. Its companies included ones for operettas, ballets, dramas, comedies, the National Theatre and later opera and farce. It had 5 buildings:

from 1833 - Teatr Wielki and the Teatr Rozmaitości
from 1870 - Teatr Letni
from 1880 - Teatr Mały
from 1881 - Teatr Nowy
from 1901 - Teatr Nowości

Presidents

The body's president was supported by a board of governors and by directors, and from 1907 by literary managers.

From	To	President
1810	1813	Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz
1814	1820	Józef Lipiński
1821	1830	Aleksander Rożniecki
1832	1842	Józef Rautenstrauch
1842	1862	Ignacy Abramowicz
1862	1868	A. Hauke
1868	1880	Siergiej Muchanow
1880	1882	Wsiewołod Wsiewołożski
1882	1889	Longin Gudowski
1889	1892	Dymitr Palicyn
1892	1895	Aleksander Karandiejew
1895	1897	Piotr Andriejew
1898	1901	Paweł Iwanow
1901	1908	Konstantin Herschelman
1908	1914	Jurij Małyszew
1914	1915	Jurij Burman

Sources

Bartłomiej tytuł= Encyklopedia Warszawy Kaczorowski: Warszawa: Wydaw. Naukowe PWN, 1994, s. 933, 934. ISBN 83-01-08836-2.
Maria Olga Bieńka: Warszawskie teatry rządowe : dramat i komedia : 1890–1915. Warszawa: Instytut Sztuki Polskiej Akademii Nauk, 2003. ISBN 83-89101-12-2.
Teatr polski w latach 1890-1918. Warszawa: PWN, 1988, s. 272. ISBN 978-83-01-06777-9.

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