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Biography of Agrippina Vaganova Yakovlevna

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Agrippina Vaganova Yakovlevna (24.06 (06.07) .1879 – 05.11.1951), Soviet ballet dancer, choreographer and teacher, People's Artist of the RSFSR (1934). In 1897 she graduated from Petersburg Theatre School (student LI Ivanova, EO Vazem. Gerdt, PA). In 1897-1916 performed at the Mariinsky Theatre (St. Petersburg). I received fame as a virtuoso classical dancing. Among the best parts: Odette-Odile ("Swan Lake" by Tchaikovsky), king-girl ("Humpbacked Horse" Pugni), and others leave the stage, started in 1917 as a teacher. Since 1921 teacher of the Leningrad Choreographic School (since 1946 a professor). In the 1931-37 artistic director of Ballet of Leningrad Opera and Ballet Theatre. Kirov, where he staged ballets: "Swan Lake" (1933), "Esmeralda" Pugni (1935). Choreography activities Vaganova marked the search for new expressive means of classical dance, yavivshimisya excellent school of performing arts, dance and acting. In 1946-51 headed the department of choreography at the Leningrad Conservatory. Rimsky-Korsakov. Teaching methods outlined in the book "Fundamentals of Classical Dance" (1934, reprinted four times), the essence of which is a requirement of comprehension and artistic expression of dance movements, fluency in technology, based on a correct formulation of the body and hands. Educational system prevalent in the Soviet Vaganova Choreography pedagogical practices, has a significant impact on foreign ballet. Among Vaganova's pupils: G. Ulanova, M. Semenov, OG Jordan, NA Anisimova, T. Vecheslova, NM Dudinskaya, AY Rustle etc. State Prize USSR (1946). She was awarded the Order of Labor Red Banner and medals.

Lit.: Bogdanov-Berezovsky, VM, Vaganova, Moscow – Leningrad, 1950; Vaganova. Articles. Memoirs. Materials. (Collection), Moscow – Leningrad, 1958.

Biography Davydov, Vladimir Nikolaevich

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Davydov, Vladimir (1847 – 1925). In the Maly Theatre in 1922 g.Lish at sunset of his life Davydov came to the Maly Theatre, at the theater, which a student, Ivan Nikolaevich Gorelova (this is the real name of a famous actor) made him such a strong impression that the choice of future career for him was solved yet. Having broken with his family – his father was a soldier, did not think that his name "came on the scene, turned into a bauble, and fluttered on the fence on the dirty bills" – Davydov became a provincial actor (1867-1880 years).. His work is associated mainly with the St. Petersburg Theatre of Alexandria, was familiar to Moscow and the theater Korsch, where Davydov created Miser – Moliere and his famous images of the mayor, Famusov, Rasplyuev, and many latter-day tour. This first-class actor, the essence of his creative method was close to the art of the Maly Theatre. When Petersburgers participated in performances of this troupe, even though it was a juicy, bright and true consumer actor Varlamov, always clearly felt the difference of their "tone" manner of acting, an approach to the role of generally accepted in the Maly Theatre. Davydov was in the basis of their creativity successor of the same school of artistic realism, which is inherent in small theater, so it is well suited to it. Softness imposed their colors, simplicity, and spoke of genius, savings and complex diversity of creativity, simplicity, which was not a single superfluous gesture, not a single artificially exaggerated intonation, extraordinary skill elocution, which precludes all theatrical declamation, alien to the Russian living word, beautiful dialect Russian is a specific feature of this huge master, allowing more than any actors, thc Davydova with Schepkinym.Vmeste so his game was a further development of stage art. Mastery of the external transformation, the force of internal transformation, which he reached the parts, the basic idea, put it in a way, expressive facial expressions (his remarkable visual pause, a deep rich content), mild humor in the depth of true feelings and the charm of the enchanting personality far extraordinary man – this ground that could not hit all of his speeches at stsene.V Maly he showed Famusov, mayor, Rasplyuev, Kuzovkin ("parasite"), Obroshenova ("Jokers"), Tugouhovskogo ("Woe from Wit") and "Sailor "(role, which once shook the audience Shchepkin). Game seventy "grandfather", as everyone called him in the theater, preserves freshness neuvyadaemuyu skill. Davydov has always believed that "everything in the actor's art should be strictly and precisely designed. In his tales of the past ", he said:" The inspiration, encouragement give wings actor on stage, temperament makes his images lively and persuasive, but only the preparatory work for the premeditated plan provides an opportunity scenic artist in the creative process, in the eyes of the viewer, to strictly control every gesture, every turn, every sound of voices. " This is essentially a shepkinskie tradition derived by OT Samarin, which Davydov considered his teacher, and enabled him, despite their age, always cause a strong reaction in the auditorium. The inherent susceptibility of him alive, the interest in the surrounding reserve and creative forces were retained until the end of his days.

After the October Revolution Davydov – People's Artist of the Republic, whose work, always cheerful and vigorous, highly regarded new audience. And the name Davydova, went down in history as the great phenomenon of Russian art, a bridge connecting the modern theatrics culture with the pioneer and founder of this culture – the great Shchepkin.

Biography Massalitinovoy Barbara Levinton

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Massalitinova Barbara Levinton (17 (29) .07.1878 – 10.20.1945), Russian Soviet actress, People's Artist of the RSFSR (1933).

In 1901 she graduated from drama courses at the Moscow Theatre School, class of AP Lenski and joined the troupe of the Maly Theatre.

The first big role (in a box "Dead Souls" by Gogol) played on the stage of the New Theatre (Minor Branch). The basic repertoire of assalitinovoy were typical of the role of old women in the plays of Ostrovsky, Gogol.

In 1919-20 actress State Demonstration Theatre. In 1922, again at the Maly Theatre, where she created her best work: Nenfla Sidorovna ("In a strange feast hangover Ostrovsky), Khlestov (" Woe from Wit "Griboyedov) Demidevna (" Invasion "Leonov), and returned to the roles previously played Manefa and Kukushkina ("Every Wise Man Stumbles", "Lucrative" Ostrovsky), etc.

Embodying the realist tradition of the Maly Theatre, Massalitinova able to combine deep psychology, truthful, based on keen observations of life, with vivid expressiveness of the external image of the image. She searched for the role of each individual speech characteristic.

Courage and strength of a satirical depiction of the actress raised art to the deep social generalizations. In 1918 he starred in the movies.

Bright life-affirming nature of the grandmother Akulina Ivanovna created in the films "Gorky's Childhood" and "In humans" (1938, 1939, the USSR State Prize, 1941).

She was awarded two medals.

Lit.: V. Afanasiev, VO Massalitinova, MA, 1951; M. Ilyin, V. Massalitinova, in the book.: Actors of Soviet cinema, in. 6, AL, 1970.

Biography Sosnitsky Ivan Ivanovich

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Sosnitsky Ivan Ivanovich (1794 – 1877) – a famous actor.

His father, apparently, was the ushers. Sosnitsky was given a theatrical school 6 years old and already the age of 13 appeared on the big stage in the drama Kryukovsky "Pozharskii." The greatest part in the stage career took Sosnitsky Prince Shakhovskoy, when in 1811 arranged a so-called, a young troupe, which Sosnitsky and was released the same year.

The first big success was the play Sosnitsky Shakhovsky: "Lipetsk water or flirt a lesson. Since almost all the roles and rakes vertoprahov moved to Sosnitsky, many authors have even specially translated for him from the French play to the roles of its line (incidentally, Griboedov comedy in verse "newlyweds").

But gradually the role of its becoming more colorful. Preeminent polozhenie Sosnitsky acquires the appearance on the stage "Woe from Wit" and "Inspector. In "Woe from Wit (1829) Sosnitsky played and Chatsky and Zagoretskogo and Repetilova; latest role – one of the best works of artist – remained behind him for a lifetime.

In the "Inspector" (1836) Sosnitsky created the role of mayor is quite satisfied with the author. Mainly, however, had to create their Sosnitsky types in vaudeville, then substituted for a light comedy, in drama puppeteer and field, and rarely in the classical plays in translation ("Tartuffe", Polonius – in "Hamlet," Arnolfo – a "School of Women" , Wurm – in "Intrigue and Love").

Theatre Ostrovsky Sosnitsky little appreciated and even rebelled against him. Octrovsky appeared when Sosnitsky was already the sixth decade and the artist was bypassed in these plays. However, he did not want to recognize his old age and in letters a close friend of many complains that he did not give new roles. The new Russian repertory Sosnitsky, there are still managed in a bikini during a typical person (in plays by Potekhin – "Tinsel" and "blame"; N. Potekhina – "Share-hill", Palma – "The Benefactor" Ustryalov – "The Gap", Mann – "Web" and others). The latter played his role was in the comedy Minaeva "Liberal"). Belinsky was not immediately appreciated Sosnitsky, during his arrival in Moscow, he even wrote a rather venomous article Heading Sosnitsky her name and speaking about it a lot about other actors, but not a word about Sosnitsky.

Subsequently, in St. Petersburg, Belinsky gave rightly Sosnitsky and wrote about him: "Sosnitsky superb, can not ask for more renunciation of personality – it is a rebirth of the protean. This is his superiority over Shchepkin. Sosnitsky was also an excellent teacher of dramatic art. He totally owes his career to the famous Barbara Asenkova sisters Samoilovs etc.

In 1861, solemnly celebrated the fiftieth anniversary Sosnitsky and in 1871 – sixty years. In private life Sosnitsky different good-natured character. Wife of actor Sosnitsky, Helen Y., daughter of singer Vorobyov – was very handsome, appeared on the scene in 1814, first in the opera "Ivan Susanin" (the role of Alyosha), Shakhovsky and Cavos.

Subsequently, different artistic development of thin comic roles. One of the best roles Sosnitsky – the role of Susanna in The Marriage of Figaro. " Over the years the artist gradually changed its role, performing consistently with the same design and the success of their roles.

In his later years one of the brilliant creations was her performance as Kaurovoy, in Turgenev's comedy "Breakfast with the leader. She died in 1855, a victim of his jealous attitude to his stage work, not wanting to cede the role Lanskoy, she played a patient and the illness intensified.

Biography of Alexander Dovzhenko P.

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Dovzhenko, Aleksandr Petrovich (30.08 (11.09) .1894 – 25.11.1956), the Ukrainian Soviet film director, writer, screenwriter, People's Artist of the RSFSR (1950).

In 1914 graduated from Hlukhouski Teachers Inst. After the Great October Revolution he worked in the Commissariat of Ukraine, has worked in newspapers and magazines as an artist. In 1926 wrote the script and was sorezhisserom movie "Vasya the Reformer. Original creative individuality Dovzhenko first revealed in the movie "Zvenigora" (1928). Already this film revealed the origins of the popular talent Dovzhenko. Sublime romance and angry satire, song lyrics and political journalism, epic interpretation of events merged into a single artistic whole, gave all his films unique heroic-poetic coloring.

Genuine philosophic heights attained Dovzhenko in historical revolutionary film "Arsenal" (1929) and especially in the film "Earth" (1930), dedicated to the struggle for collectivization in Ukraine. In 1958 at the Brussels Film Festival (under Internat. Exhibition) film has been named among the 12 best films of all time.

In 1932 Dovzhenko directed the film "Ivan", one of the first Soviet sound pictures. In 1935, staged "Aerograd. A major achievement was the Dovzhenko film Schors "(1939; Gos. Pr USSR, 1941).

During the Great Patriotic War of 1941-45 Dovzhenko was a war correspondent, wrote agitated journalistic articles, essays, short stories. Documentaries Dovzhenko "Liberation" (1940, reunification of the West. Ukraine), "The Battle for Our Soviet Ukraine" (1943), "Victory in Right Bank Ukraine" (1945) were outstanding examples of poetic kinopublitsistiki.

In the postwar years Dovzhenko wrote the play and the script "Life in Bloom", which put a color film Michurin "(1949; Gos. Pr USSR, 1949).

Death interrupted his work on the film Dovzhenko "Poem of the Sea", a scenario which Dovzhenko was awarded posthumously in 1959 Lenin Prize.

On both the "Poem of the Sea," "The Tale of ardent years," the lyrical story of devoted childhood Dovzhenko, "Enchanted Desna" (1955, publ. 1957) and his other stories directed YI Solntseva created the same movie.

Dovzhenko was a writer for almost all his films, writer and publicist, who claimed the spiritual richness and beauty of the Soviet people, are actively fighting for a communist morality. He was a teacher work, in 1949-51 and from 1955 taught in VGIK.

Dovzhenko made a great contribution to the development of Soviet and world cinema. The name assigned to the Kiev Dovzhenko film studio of feature films.

Awarded the Order of Lenin, the Order of Labor Red Banner and medals.

Cit.: Express Yourself, Vol 1-5. Joined. Statte M. Rilski, Kiiv, 1964-66; Coll. cit., v. 1-4, Moscow, 1966-69.

Lit.: Bazhan M., O. Dovzhenko, Kiiv, 1930, Eisenstein S., The Birth of masters, "The Art of Cinema", 1940, № 1 – 2; Yurenev RN, Alexander Dovzhenko, Moscow, 1959; Maryamov A ., Dovzhenko, Moscow, 1968 (bibl. and filmogr., pp. 378-82).

Biography Blumenthal, Tamara Maria Mikhailovna

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Blumenthal-Tamarina Mary M. (1859) – Distinguished Artist. Since 1883 he plays on stage in Moscow Position B.-T. – "A comic old woman." Blumenthal-Tamarina, Mary M. (nee Klimov). Rod. 4 (16) July 1859, in St. Petersburg, died. October 16, 1938, in Moscow. The actress, the wife of the famous Russian actor and director A. E. Blumenthal-Tamarina. She debuted in 1885 on the amateur stage, in 1887, first played on the stage of professional theater ("Kin, or debauchery and genius" by A. Dumas, Kitty). She worked in Moscow with MV Lentovskogo, in the province. Since 1933, the Maly Theatre. The best part: Galchiha ("Guilty Without Guilt", 1891), Domna Panteleyevna ("Talents and admirers", 1894), Anfisa ("Wolves and Sheep", 1896), Feklusha and Kabanova ("Thunderstorm", 1894, 1896), nanny Marina ("Uncle Vanya", 1896), Elizabeth Antonovna ("Days of Our Lives, 1909), Poshlepkina (" Auditor "), Vanyushina (Children Vanyushina, 1901). Film credits: Pelagia (Don Diego and Pelageya, 1928), wife Babchenko ("Counter", 1932), Dvoyra ("Seekers of Happiness", 1936), etc. Since 1936 the People's Artist of the USSR.

Biography Granovskaya Helena Altenburg

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Granovskaya Elena Altenburg (06/13/1877 – 15/06/1968), Russian Soviet actress, People's Artist of the RSFSR (1944).

Professional stage career began in 1897 in St. Petersburg Ozerkovskaya theater, played in Panaevskom Theatre (St. Petersburg), Theatre Korsch (Moscow). From 1903 to entreprise SF Saburova (mosk. Theatre Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Theatre "Passage").

From 1931 he served in the Leningrad Theatre of satire and comedy (from 1935 – Leningrad. Comedy Theatre). In 1939 joined the troupe of the Bolshoi Drama Theatre. Gorky.

Won renown as a brilliant comedienne, fluent in the art of dialogue, expressive gesture. In pre-revolutionary period of his career played mostly in comedies, farces and the role of fine, elegant and frivolous society women. Having successfully played the role of Catherine ("Madame Sans-Gene" Sardou and Moreau).

In Soviet times, clearly opened up new aspects of talent actress, the depth of psychological characteristics, the art of reincarnation.

The best role of 1930-40-ies.: Mirandolina ("landlady" Goldoni), Katharina ("The Taming of the Shrew" Shakespeare), Ranevskaya ("The Cherry Orchard Chekhov), Polina Bardin (" Enemies "Gorky), etc.

USSR State Prize (1951) for the execution of the role of Sofia Petrovna ("Break" Lavrenev). She was awarded the Order of Labor Red Banner and medals.

Lit.: Yureneva V., Actresses, M., 1925.

Biography of Vladimir Gardin Rostislavovich

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Gardin, Vladimir Rostislavovich (Blagonravov) (1877 – 1965). Born 1877, died 1965. Actor, director and screenwriter. He made his debut in the theater in 1898, the cinema in 1913 ("The Keys to Happiness" with J. Protazanov). Other pre-revolutionary films: "Days of Our Lives" (1914), "Anna Karenina" (1914), "Kreutzer Sonata" (1914), "Enver Pasha – a traitor in Turkey" (1914, Autologous. Screenplay), "War and Peace" (1915, with J. Protazanov), "Yesterday" (1915), "Savage" (1915), "Privalov Millions" (1915), etc. After the October Revolution – one of the organizers (1919), and later head of the 1 st Goskinoshkoly in Moscow (RSIC). Actively worked in the Soviet cinema ("The Funeral Sverdlov, Doc. P., 1918;" Hammer and Sickle, 1921; "Hunger … Hunger … Hunger …", 1921; "The Cross and Mauser, 1925;" Bear Wedding ", 1926, "The Poet and the King", 1927, etc.). Filming began in the years of sound cinema. Raleigh: work Babchenko ("Counter", 1932), Porfiry Golovlyov ("Judas Golovlyov, 1933), Count Tolstoy (2 nd ser." Peter I "), etc. Since 1947, People's Artist of the USSR.

Biography Vassiliev

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Vasileva: Sergey V. (1827 – 1862) and Yekaterina Nikolaevna (1826 – 1877). In the Small Theatre from 1836 to 1861 in the Maly Theatre since 1848 many first-class actors know Maly Theatre for their existence – their names are not listed. This theater is rightly recognized as "theater actor, and his company has always been a wonderful talent who had not only deserved success with the public, but also the undeniable importance in the theater of his time. Their memory is preserved in the theater and so far, but the general public their names say little. If the Lvov-Sinetskaya, Saburova, Repin, for example, or Nemchinov, Potanchikov and stories are known only to historians of the theater, if Akimov, Talanova, Kolosov, Orlov, sisters Borozdin, Poltavtseva, Dmitrevsky, Reshimova, Maksheyev remembered as brilliant artists of his time, or Stepanova Nikiforov and appreciate how wonderful embodiment of the secondary or incidental roles, if, finally, dozens of actors of high artistic value not found yet reflected in the theatrical historiography, the explanation that we find the following. For all the values of the images they created, with all the brilliance of their personalities with all their skill they were successors to the earlier open and working in another theater, they could make him the glory, but here, on the boards of the oldest drama theater, talent eclipsed their talents those Mohicans Performing Arts, which contributed to the laying of the new ways of acting technique. There are among the last names that are in his work stand out – their life on the stage so happens that, as in life generally recognized major masters, they must be known to everyone seeking to find a theatrical past, and they, together with those half-forgotten. These spouses Vasileva: Sergey and his wife Ekaterina, born Lavrov. The fate of SV tragic. In the fifties it was "the most important and original artist after P. Sadowski," but in 34 years in the prime of his artistic forces, had to leave the theater – he went blind. His contemporaries called him "brilliant". He turned into the living wooden, formulaic figures vaudeville characters, and laughter, they are excited, "was the lighting, cleansing the soul, imprinted in it, as a good, happy moment of life." The images reproduced in their repertoire Ostrowski, were "creatures", "beyond which no one went out the next performers, not excepting such as AE Martynov," an actor of genius Drama Theater of St. Petersburg. His Borodkin ("Not in his sleigh would not sit down"), Razlyulyaev ("Poverty Is No Crime"), Andrew ("In somebody else's feast hangover") – not to mention the amazing performance Milashina ("Poor Bride"), or Tikhon ( "Storm"), whom he "was so fully and artistically recreated" ("Kabanov, Vasiliev typical, livelier, brighter, although equally simple and bezeffekten as Kabanov, Martynov," according to Bazhenova) – contributed to the consolidation of new repertoire. At the same time "an amazing ability to gesture, movement, and intonation to highlight a word, give explanatory smear domestic character portrayed the role (Stakhovich), and, as a particular, his mime game covering the inner essence of the image is constantly evoked the applause of spectators. He was the best inspector general, whom she'd known the Maly Theatre, – "quite lively, familiar to every person." In all roles, as mentioned, and in Mitrofanov ("minor"), Lancelot ("Shylock") Harpagon (The Miser), he gave so eapechatlyayuschiesya way that they are forced out before the audience had seen and not forgotten in new artists. He, finally, despite his youth and the tragedy of his fate, was the founder of Role "comic-simpleton", despite the fact that the brilliantly played and dramatic roles (Michael – "Alien in a good proc does not go"). E. Vasilieva especially impressed by the fact that the actress was out of line: "the range of her talent amazed by their size" – a light farce and tragic images of her were equally available. Ophelia and the Queen (Hamlet), Pedzh ("Twelfth Night") as "brilliant, elegant, subtle and passionate" performed by it, as Maria Andreevna ("Poor Bride"), Anna Pavlovna ("Jokers") and subsequently Gorodnichiha ("Auditor"). "Her policies were the characters. Here she had no rivals "; Contemporary (Carnea) believed that, living 'in France, Germany or Italy, it would be a Catholic celebrity" and "this great talent" would be recognized as "brilliant".Another contemporary (Bazhenov) believed that "neither in Moscow nor the Petersburg stage we do not know now (written in 1865), another actress whose performance in the arts and the mind are so closely connected to …" Not for nothing student Moscow University in the same year, making her the gift, engrave it: "First Russian actress.

Bio-Kositskoy Nikulina Lyubov P.

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Kositskaya-Nikulin Lyubov P. (1829 – 1868) – a famous actress.

Debuted in Nizhny Novgorod, and then moved to Moscow where he enjoyed great success in the roles of Louise ("Intrigue and Love" Schiller), Marsh ("Mother's Blessing"), Regan (King Lear), Desdemona (Otello), Ophelia ("Hamlet"), Julie (Romeo and Julia ") and many others. etc.

At the time of full flowering of her talent came repertoire AN Ostrovsky, who Kositskaya-Nikulin completely controlled, especially aptly playing the role of Catherine ("Storm").

Since 1851 Kositskaya-Nikulin was married to an artist of the Imperial Moscow theater Eve. I. Nikulin.

Her biography in the "Drama album" P. Arapova (MM, I860) and in A. Gatsisskogo: "People of the Nizhniy Novgorod Volga (Nizhny Novgorod, 1887).