At the beginning of the 20th century, on the site where the summer amphitheater is now located, Larry's circus, depicted in the painting “Circus. Etude." Yudel Pen - the first teacher of Marc Chagall. Yudel Peng studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg on the course of the famous painter and teacher Pavel Chistyakov. At the same time, Valentin Serov, Mikhail Vrubel, Ilya Repin studied at the Academy.