Samarin, Ivan (1817 – 1885) – a famous actor from the Moscow Drama Theatre, the son of a serf, he studied at the Moscow Theatre School, where he drew attention to the teacher of dramatic art, the famous actor M. Schepkin.
In 1832, Samarin, was admitted to the debut and immediately became a favorite of Moscow audience, but continued to work diligently under the leadership Shchepkina. Carrying out some very stilted role in flooded then our scene melodramas translated, Samarin was always simple, without resorting to stretched effects, nor to crude gaerstvu.
On line first lover, he gradually moved to the role that previously were available only for Shchepkina. From Shakespearean roles Samarin acted Lear, Shylock and Hamlet. Thanks to his efforts on the Moscow stage were set not play so far in Russia Shakespeare: Taming of the Shrew, Much Ado About Nothing "," Windsor gossips "and" Winter's Tale. "
As a teacher of dramatic art, first at the Moscow Theatre School, and then at the conservatory, Samarin produced such artists as Nikulin, Fedotova et al
He demanded that his disciples serious and deliberate study of the roles of comprehension of each step, gesture and movement. From his play "sleep on it" and "Peremeletsya, flour would be" very staged and not devoid of literary merit, was a success and his "Pretender Luba." See Art. D. Koropchevskogo the Yearbook of Imperial. Theaters. Season 1896 – 1897 "(Book 2 App., SPb., 1898), M. Carnea," Biografich. Essay IV Samarin (Moscow, 1882).