The Moscow Art Theater is named after him. Chekhov and the Moscow Art Theater named after him. Gorky can unite and thus solve the confusing situation, said the artistic director of the First Theater, People's Artist Konstantin Khabansky. "Naturally, the thought that someday this confusion with the Moscow Art Theater-1 and the Moscow Art Theater-2, with which the Moscow Art Theater is the first and the second, should end. In time, it will probably happen," he said (quoted by TASS). Khabansky recalled that he cannot make a decision on merging theaters, but he only has the right to "offer to take the first steps so that the theaters become one entity." "But the state of reconciliation should not be as painful as the state of separation. Everything must happen in a civilized way," he stressed. RBC channel at max.