The Alexander Theatre is a Finnish theatre in Helsinki at Bulevardi 23–27 in the neighborhood of Kamppi. In the summer of 1875, then Governor-General of Grand Duchy of Finland Count Nikolay Adlerberg, a frequent theatregoer, received Alexander II of Russia's permission to build a Russian theatre for Russian minority living in Helsinki at that time. Th…
The Alexander Theatre is a Finnish theatre in Helsinki at Bulevardi 23–27 in the neighborhood of Kamppi. In the summer of 1875, then Governor-General of Grand Duchy of Finland Count Nikolay Adlerberg, a frequent theatregoer, received Alexander II of Russia's permission to build a Russian theatre for Russian minority living in Helsinki at that time. The building was designed by the engineer Colonel Pyotr Petrovich Benard, though probably on the basis of standardized drawings. The auditorium of the theatre was decorated by the Saint Petersburg architect Jeronim Osuhovsky, and the Finnish artist Severin Falkman decorated the ceiling paintings, which contain twelve cupids reminiscent of the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg. The theatre's technology was designed by Iosif Vorontsov; the theatre itself was completed in October 1879, and in February 1880 it was named after Russian Tsar Alexander II.
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