President of the Golden Mask Association Georgy Taratorkin, right, presented Vladimir Zeldin with the Golden Mask award for Honor and Dignity. The 16th Golden Mask national theater awards ceremony was held at Gostiny Dvor in Moscow.16.04.2010#629227
President of the Golden Mask Association Georgy Taratorkin presenting Vera Vasilyeva with the Golden Mask award for Honor and Dignity.16.04.2010#629226
President of the Golden Mask Association Georgy Taratorkin, right, presenting Ivan Romashko with the Golden Mask award for Honor and Dignity.16.04.2010#629225
Artistic director of the Nations State Theater Yevgeny Mironov, left, and director Alvis Hermanis receiving the Golden Mask award for Best Drama for their play Shukshin's Tales. The 16th Golden Mask national theater awards ceremony was held at Gostiny Dvor in Moscow.16.04.2010#629224
Artistic director of the Studio of Dramatic Arts Sergei Zhenovach received the Golden Mask award for Best Small Drama for the play The River Potudan. The 16th Golden Mask National Theater awards ceremony was held at Gostiny Dvor in Moscow.16.04.2010#629223
Yury Pogrebnichko received the Golden Mask award for Best Drama Director for his play L'Estrade, staged at the Theater near Stanislavski's House in Moscow.16.04.2010#629222
Andrei Popov received the Golden Mask award for Best Opera Singer for his parts of Khristofor Burdyukov in The Litigation and Grigory Storchenko in Shponka and His Aunt, staged at the Mariinsky Theater in the framework of the Gogoliada festival to mark the 200th anniversary of Nikolai Gogol's birthday.16.04.2010#629221
Vsevolod Polonsky, center, wins best conductor in a musical/operetta (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg production by Karambol Musical Theater, St. Petersburg). From right: actress Yekaterina Guseva and composer Maksim Dunayevsky at the Golden Mask awarding ceremony at Gostiny Dvor.16.04.2010#629220
Yegor Druzhinin, left, wins best actor in a musical/operetta (for Leo Bloom in The Producers production by Et Cetera theater, Moscow). From right: actress Yekaterina Guseva and composer Maksim Dunayevsky, at the 16th Golden Mask awarding ceremony at Gostiny Dvor.16.04.2010#629219
Natalya Blagikh, center, wins best actress in a musical/operetta (for Ulla in the Producers production by Et Cetera theater, Moscow) at the 16th Golden Mask awarding ceremony at Gostiny Dvor.16.04.2010#629218
Irina Prokhorova, co-founder and the head of the council of experts of the Mikhail Prokhorov Foundation, receiving the Golden Mask award in the category "For the support of the Russian Theater Art".16.04.2010#629216
From left: Head of the Theater Union of Russia Alexander Kalyagin, winner of the Golden Mask award for Honor and Dignity Vladimir Zeldin, Russian Minister of Culture Alexander Avdeyev before the 16th Golden Mask national theater awards ceremony.16.04.2010#629215
Theater director Alla Surikova and Alexander Kalyagin, head of the Theater Union of Russia, attending the 16th Golden Mask awarding ceremony at Gostiny Dvor.16.04.2010#629212
Vladimir Kozhin, the Kremlin property chief and the winner of Golden Mask for support of the performing arts, attending the 16thGolden Mask awarding ceremony at Gostiny Dvor.16.04.2010#629211
Russian Culture Minister Alexander Avdeyev and his wife before the 16th National Theater Award "The Golden Mask" at Gostiny Dvor in Moscow.16.04.2010#629210
Alexander Kalyagin, head of the Theater Union of Russia, attending the Golden Mask awarding ceremony at Gostiny Dvor.16.04.2010#629209
Oleg Tabakov, artistic director of the Moscow Chekhov Art Theatre, attending the 16th Golden Mask awarding ceremony at Gostiny Dvor.16.04.2010#629208
Theater director Alla Surikova attending the Golden Mask awarding ceremony at Gostiny Dvor.16.04.2010#629207
Theater director Nina Chusiva attending the 16th Golden Mask awarding ceremony at Gostiny Dvor.16.04.2010#629206
Natalya Blagikh received the Golden Mask award for Best Operetta/Musical Actress for her role as Ulla in The Producers, staged at the Et Cetera Theater in Moscow.16.04.2010#629202
The 16th Golden Mask National Theater Award winners: Yevgeny Mironov, left, wins best drama actor (The Shukshin Stories, Theatre of Nations, Moscow) and Alvis Hermanis, right, director of The Shukshin Stories, wins best drama.16.04.2010#629200
Polina Kutepova received the Golden Mask award for Best Drama Actress for her role as Molly Bloom in James Joyce's Ulysses, staged at Pyotr Fomenko's Workshop Theater.16.04.2010#629199
Polina Kutepova received the Golden Mask award for Best Drama Actress for her role as Molly Bloom in James Joyce's Ulysses, staged at Pyotr Fomenko's Workshop Theater.16.04.2010#629197
Alexander Titel, left, and Vladimir Kobekin receiving the Golden Mask award for the Hamlet play (staged by Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theater) in the categories "Best Opera Director" and "Best Composer in the Musical Theater" at Gostiny Dvor.16.04.2010#629195
Vladimir Varnava received the Golden Mask award for Best Ballet Dancer/Modern Dancer for his role as Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet, staged at the Musical Theater of the Republic of Karelia in Petrozavodsk.16.04.2010#629194
Svetlana Zakharova, the Bolshoi Theater Prima Ballerina and the State Duma deputy, attending the 16th Golden Mask awarding ceremony at Gostiny Dvor.16.04.2010#629192
Painter Mikhail Shemyakin attending the Golden Mask awarding ceremony at Gostiny Dvor.16.04.2010#629190
Composer Maksim Dunayevsky with his wife, Marina, attending the Golden Mask awarding ceremony at Gostiny Dvor.16.04.2010#629187
