North East (musical)

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Nord-Ost ( Russian Норд-Ост ) is a musical by Georgi Wassiljew and Alexei Iwaschtschenko based on Wenjamin Kawerin's novel Two Captains . The musical premiered on October 19, 2001 in the Theater Center on Dubrovka in Moscow .

Based on a love story, the musical tells the Soviet story from the pre-revolutionary period to the Great Patriotic War .

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The young Alexander (Sanja) Grigoryev falls in love with Katja, the stepdaughter of a Moscow school home manager. Katja's father is the famous explorer Captain Tatarinov, who died in 1913 on an Arctic expedition . After the captain's death, Katja's mother married his brother. Letters sent by Captain Tatarinov about this expedition had fallen into little Sanja in 1915. Katja's mother also learns from him that the captain blames his brother for the failure of the expedition. Katja Sanja accuses her mother of committing suicide.

Inspired by the desire to solve the polar explorer's death, Sanja becomes a flight captain. When he returned to Moscow years later, he and Katja became a couple. The war with Germany separates the two again - Sanja goes into battle, Katja remains in the blocked Leningrad . Due to the intrigues of Romaschow, a former schoolmate of Sanja who is after Katja, both are convinced of the death of the other. After a flight in the polar region, Sanja has to make an emergency landing. There he came across the traces of the 1913 expedition and learned about the circumstances of the death of Captain Tatarinov. For the "happy ending" the lovers find themselves on the edge of the world, and Sanja can tell Katja the truth about her father's fate.

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On October 23, 2002, during a performance of the musical, a mass hostage-taking occurred in the Dubrovka Theater by Chechen terrorists . During the liberation by special forces about 130 hostages and the hostage-takers were killed.

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