On November 23, 2011, an Alexandrinsky Theater Director and founder and artistic director of the formal theater Andrey Moguchy will celebrate his 50th birthday.  Andrey Moguchy is one of the key figures of the modern Russian theater. Last season, a repeated incumbent of the Golden Soffit and Golden Mask theater awards, Andrey Moguchy was honored with the International Stanislavsky Theater Award in the nomination “Director’s Mastership” and the European New Theater Reality Award for the last years’ jobs. The Formal Theater he had founded in the early 1990s united together dozens of talented artists, actors, and musicians; from a semi-amateurish theatric laboratory it turned into one of the brightest and nontrivial collectives carrying out experimental quests in the field of stage forms and languages. The Formal Theater’s performances were shown at numerous Russian and foreign festivals; “The School for Fools” after Sasha Sokolov’s novel was awarded with the BITEF Grand Prix of the Edinburg International Festival, the top national theater Golden Mask award, and the top St. Petersburg Golden Soffit theater award.  Andrey Moguchy’s cooperation with the Alexandrinsky Theater started with the Seagull’s Flight Festival dedicated to the 100th anniversary of Chekhov’s play.  Andrey Moguchy’s street performance “A Konstantin Treplev’s Play “People, Lions, Eagles, and Quails…”" was played in front of the theater building at the festival opening. Later on, in 1999, another Andrey Moguchy’s performance “Snow Queens” by K. Speht was opening the Modern German Drama Festival at the Alexandrinsky Theater. In 2001, the idea to produce A. Bely’s “Petersburg” with the Alexandrinsky Theater’s actors appeared, but the project was postponed due to a series of technical obstacles. Only in 2004, when Andrey Moguchy became a full-time director at the Alexandrinsky Theater, rehearsals of “Petersburg” had started.  In 2005, the first night of this performance took place on May 27. It had been played only during the White Night Season: in the yard and museum halls of the Michael’s Castle. Today, three Andrey Moguchy’s performances are played on the Alexandrinsky stage: “The Ivans” after N. Gogol’s novel “How Ivan Ivanovich Quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich” and other stories (December 7 and 8), “Izotov” by M. Durnenkov (November 24) and “The Fortune” by A. Moguchy and K. Filippov (December 4 and 25).