Conclusion

This tour covered theater, ballet, opera, and the circus from the early days of performance arts with serf theater to traditional opera and theater to more modern trapze arts at the circus. Surveying different time periods and mediums at these five sites shows that the art at each site struggled to express and invent while sometimes under social or political oppression. This tour highlights all the variety and vibrantness of Russian performance arts throughout history that can still be seen today.