Molieres comedy "Tartuffe"' in the Tomsk newspaper reviews in late 19 - early 20 century (on material of newspapers "Sibirsky Vestnik" and "Sibirskaya Zhizn"')
The article analyses the particularities of the reception of Moliere's comedy ''Tartuffe'' in Tomsk newspapers at the end of the 19th - beginning of the 20th century. The play was staged in Tomsk several times. This fact is proved by the articles and reviews published in ''Sibirsky Vestnik'' (1885-1905) and ''Sibirskaya Zhizn'' (1894-1919). Five articles of different volume and content devoted to the staging of ''Tartuffe'' appeared in Tomsk newspapers during the period from 1888 to 1911. Observations and statements of Tomsk critics formed the image of the French playwright, a famous representative of European classicism in the eyes of the local audience (readers), and developed a taste to the theatre in whole. Newspaper ''Sibirsky Vestnik'' was edited by a Tomsk lawyer V.P. Kartamyshev and an exiled criminal E.V. Korsh. Two reviews (1888, 1892) written by the famous Tomsk author V.A. Dolgorukov, a staff writer of ''Sibirsky Vestnik'' newspaper, were published on the pages of this periodical. Another article introducing Moliere's works to the local readers was written by an unknown author who named himself ''Nevidimka'' in 1900. G. Vyatkin was the author of the review, thoroughly describing the staging of ''Tartuffe'' comedy in the building of the railway assembly. Newspaper ''Sibirskaya Zhizn'', edited by a well-known Siberian philanthropist, enlightener and public person P.I. Makushin, contained only one small note about the play based on Moliere's comedy ''Tartuffe'', which was staged in Tomsk in 1911. The author of this note preferred to cover his name under the pseudonym ''Y''. The analysis of the material, published in Tomsk newspapers, shows that the theatre of French classicism was not popular in Tomsk at the end of the 19th - beginning of the 20th century. Unfortunately, the plays of other French classic writers, except for Moliere's comedy, were not staged in Tomsk. However, the reception of Moliere's comedy ''Tartuffe'' did not have a consistent history (the play was staged interruptedly). Each staging of the comedy was played by a different cast and in different theatrical seasons, the repertoire of which was determined by a concrete entrepreneur. Nevertheless, no theatrical season showed any special interest of the local audience to the classic play. On the contrary, after the staging of this play entrepreneurs in order not to sustain a loss had to stage musical comedies and light operas, which were loved by the major part of Tomsk audience