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Talents And Admirers
''Talents and Admirers'' (russian: Таланты и поклонники, Romanized as Talanty y poklonniki) is a play by Alexander Ostrovsky premiered on December 20, 1881, in Maly Theatre. The author started working upon this 4-act comedy in August 1881 and finished it on December 6 of that year. Background Ostrovsky wrote the play in the days when he was working for the Theatre reform commission. The problem facing the main character Negina was the one which the author himself knew only too well, according to the biographer Vladimir Lakshin. He often had to apply for help to rich men but thought such compromises necessary and considered he had to "bear his cross" in the interest of the theatre. According to the author, "the art is unable to stand for itself when facing rough brutal forces and has to find rich mentors." The original title of the comedy was "Open Letters". According to the literary historian Ilya Shlyapkin, it has been read for the first time for the circle of b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aleksandr Ostrovsky
Alexander Nikolayevich Ostrovsky (russian: Алекса́ндр Никола́евич Остро́вский; ) was a Russian playwright, generally considered the greatest representative of the Russian realistic period. The author of 47 original plays, Ostrovsky "almost single-handedly created a Russian national repertoire." His dramas are among the most widely read and frequently performed stage pieces in Russia. Biography Alexander Nikolayevich Ostrovsky was born on 12 April 1823, in the Zamoskvorechye region of Moscow, to Nikolai Fyodorovich Ostrovsky, a lawyer who received religious education. Nikolai's ancestors came from the village Ostrov in the Nerekhta region of Kostroma governorate, hence the surname. Later Nikolai Ostrovsky became a high-ranked state official and as such in 1839 received a nobility title with the corresponding privileges. His first wife and Alexander's mother, Lyubov Ivanovna Savvina, came from a clergyman's family. For some time the family lived in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikhail Klimov
Mikhail Mikhailovich Klimov (Russian: Михаил Михайлович Климов; November 20, 1880July 9, 1942) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor. People's Artist of the USSR (1937). From 1909 to 1940 he was a leading actor of the Maly theatre. During the 1920s and 1930s he was also a popular film actor, he usually played roles of the main hero's antagonists. Filmography Awards and honors * Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1928) * People's Artist of the RSFSR (1933) * People's Artist of the USSR (1937) * Order of the Red Banner of Labour The Order of the Red Banner of Labour (russian: Орден Трудового Красного Знамени, translit=Orden Trudovogo Krasnogo Znameni) was an order of the Soviet Union established to honour great deeds and services to th ... (1937) References * *Biography at the Maly Theatre website 1880 births 1942 deaths 20th-century Russian male actors Male actors from Saint Petersburg Male actors from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladimir Davydov
Vladimir Davydov ( – ) was the second son of Lev and Alexandra Davydov, and nephew of the composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, who called him "Bob". Life From his earliest years, Davydov showed an aptitude for music and drawing, which was encouraged by his uncle. After he studied at the Imperial School of Jurisprudence in Saint Petersburg, however, Bob decided on a military career and joined the Preobrazhensky Lifeguard regiment. He resigned his commission as a lieutenant in 1897Holden, 403. and moved to Klin, where he helped the composer's brother Modest create a museum to commemorate Tchaikovsky's life. Prone to depression, Davydov turned to morphine and other drugs before he committed suicide in 1906 at the age of 34. He is buried at the town's Dem'ianovo Cemetery. Relationship with Tchaikovsky After Tchaikovsky lost the support of Nadezhda von Meck in 1890, he made Davydov his confidant.Holden, 313. Tchaikovsky considered relocating from Klin to Saint Petersburg in the last ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonina Abarinova
Antonina Ivanovna Abarinova (russian: Антони́на Ива́новна Аба́ринова, 24 July 1842, Vladimir – 29 July 1901, Sukhodol, Tula Governorate, Imperial Russia) was a Russian Empire opera singer (originally contralto, later mezzo-soprano) who performed at Maryinsky Theatre, while being also an Alexandrinsky Theatre actress.Russian Drama Theatre. Encyclopedia. 2001, p. 568 // Русский драматический театр: Энциклопедия / Большая Российская энциклопедия, 2001. — 568 с.: ил. Abarinova's best-known operatic roles were as the Princess in '' Rusalka'' and Laura in '' The Stone Guest'', both by Alexander Dargomyzhsky, as well as Spiridonova in Alexander Serov's ''The Power of the Fiend'' and Lady Pamela in Daniel Auber's ''Fra Diavolo''. In theatre she excelled as Natalya Dmitriyevna in Alexander Griboyedov's ''Woe from Wit'', Zvezdintseva in '' The Fruits of Enlightenment'' by Leo Tolstoy, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marius Petipa
Marius Ivanovich Petipa (russian: Мариус Иванович Петипа), born Victor Marius Alphonse Petipa (11 March 1818), was a French ballet dancer, pedagogue and choreographer. Petipa is one of the most influential ballet masters and choreographers in ballet history. Marius Petipa is noted for his long career as ''Premier maître de ballet'' (''First Ballet Master'') of the St. Petersburg Imperial Theatres, making him Ballet Master and principal choreographer of the Imperial Ballet (today known as the Mariinsky Ballet), a position he held from 1871 until 1903. Petipa created over fifty ballets, some of which have survived in versions either faithful to, inspired by, or reconstructed from the original. Among these works, he is most noted for ''The Pharaoh's Daughter'' (1862); ''Don Quixote'' (1869); ''La Bayadère'' (1877); '' Le Talisman'' (1889); '' The Sleeping Beauty'' (1890); ''The Nutcracker'' (choreographed jointly with Lev Ivanov) (1892); ''Le Réveil de Flor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Nilsky
Alexander Alexandrovich Nilus (russian: Александр Александрович Нильский, 22 July 1840—12 August 1899) was a Russian stage actor associated with Alexandrinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg and known under his stage name, Nilsky (Нильский). Biography After graduating from the Saint Petersburg Theatre College he made his debut on stage the Alexandrinka in 1860 and stayed with it until 1883. In 1883—1889 he toured the province and worked with the private troupes in Saint Petersburg (the Nemetti and Panayevsky Theatres) and Moscow (Korsh Theatre), then in 1889—1892 headed the Alexandrovsky Theatre in Helsingfors. In 1892 he returned to Alexandrinka to stay there until 1897.The Theatre Encyclopedia in 4 volumes//Театральная энциклопедия. Гл. ред. П. А. Марков. Т. 4 — М.: Советская энциклопедия, Нежин — Сярев, 1965. (стр. 68-69) [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Savina
Maria Gavrilovna Savina (russian: link=no, Мария Гаври́ловна Са́вина, née Podrame′ntsova, 11 April 1854, Kamenets-Podolsky, Imperial Russia – 21 September 1915, Petrograd, Imperial Russia) was a renowned Russian stage actress. Biography Born Maria Podramentsova into a family of stage actors, she debuted in Minsk in 1869, then joined the Mikhail Leontovsky troupe in Kharkov. While there, she married the actor N. N. Slavich who used the stage name Savin, and has been known as Marya Savina ever since. In 1874 Savina, then the leading actress at the Saratov Theatre, moved to Saint Petersburg to join the Alexandrinsky Theatre. It was there that she became famous, mostly for her parts in Alexander Ostrovsky's plays (including '' Without a Dowry'', '' Talents and Admirers'', ''A Profitable Position'', ''Hard-Earned Bread'', ''The Last Victim'', ''Vasilisa Melentyeva'', ''Wild Thing''), as well as in Nikolai Gogol's ''Revizor'', Ivan Turgenev's '' A Month in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandrinsky Theatre
The Alexandrinsky Theatre (russian: Александринский театр) or National Drama Theatre of Russia is a theatre in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The Alexandrinsky Theatre was built for the Imperial troupe of Petersburg (Imperial troupe was founded in 1756). Since 1832, the theatre has occupied an Empire-style building that Carlo Rossi designed. It was built in 1828–1832 on Alexandrinsky Square (now Ostrovsky Square), which is situated on Nevsky Prospekt between the National Library of Russia and Anichkov Palace. The theatre was opened on 31 August (12 September) 1832. The theatre and the square were named after Empress consort Alexandra Feodorovna. The building is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Historic Centre of Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments. It was one of the many theatres of the Imperial troupe. Dramas, operas and ballets were on the stage. Only in the 1880s, the theatre has become dramatic and tragedy filled. The premières of n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Yuzhin
Alexander Ivanovich Yuzhin (russian: Алекса́ндр Ива́нович Ю́жин; 1857–1927) was a stage name of the Georgian Prince Sumbatov (Sumbatashvili), who dominated the Malyi Theatre of Moscow at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. He was best known for the Romantical parts in the dramas by Schiller and Victor Hugo but also penned a number of plays himself. Yuzhin lived on to become one of the first People's Artists of the Republic in 1922. He was a freemason. Initiated to February 17, 1908 in the masonic lodge "Renaissance" (Grand Orient of France The Grand Orient de France (GODF) is the oldest and largest of several Freemasonic organizations based in France and is the oldest in Continental Europe (as it was formed out of an older Grand Lodge of France in 1773, and briefly absorbed the r ...).Серков А. И. Русское масонство. 1731—2000 гг. Энциклопедический словарь. М.: Российская пол ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maly Theatre (Moscow)
Maly Theatre (, literally ''Small Theatre'' as opposed to nearby Bolshoi, or ''Grand'', opera theatre) is a theatre in Moscow, Russia, principally associated with the production of plays. Established in 1806Londre, Margot p. 307 and operating on its present site on the Theatre Square since 1824, the theatre traces its history to the Moscow University drama company, established in 1756. In the 19th century, Maly was "universally recognized in Russia as the leading dramatic theatre of the century", and was the home stage for Mikhail Shchepkin and Maria Yermolova. 40 of Alexander Ostrovsky's 54 plays premiered at Maly, and the theatre was known as The House of Ostrovsky.Londre, Margot p. 306 The Maly Theatre in Moscow and Alexandrinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg "to a great extent determined the development of Russian theatre during the 19th and 20th century". Maly Theatre positions itself as a traditional drama theatre that produces classical heritage plays. For example, the 200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sergey Aydarov
Sergey Vasilyevich Aydarov (russian: Сергей Васильевич Айдаров, born Vishnevsky, Вишневский, 20 October 1867 — 16 August 1938) was a Russian and Soviet stage actor and theatre director, associated with the Moscow's Maly Theatre where he made his debut in 1898. Aydarov was born in Moscow, then in Imperial Russia. His most acclaimed parts were those in the plays by Alexander Ostrovsky (Krutitsky in ''Enough Stupidity in Every Wise Man'', Vyshnevsky in ''A Profitable Position'', Berendey in ''The Snow Maiden'', Ivan Grozny in ''Vasilisa Melentyeva'', Dulebov in '' Talents and Admirers''), as well in ''Julius Caesar'' and '' The Tempest'' by William Shakespeare. As a theatre director, Aydarov produced several plays, including Pyotr Gnedich's ''Before the Dawn'' (1901), as well as Ostrovsky's ''Vasilisa Melentyeva'' (1914) and ''A Busy Place'' (1915). In 1925—1930 he was the head of the Maly Theatre Yermolova Studio, later to be reformed into the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aleksandr Pavlovich Lensky
Aleksandr Pavlovich Lensky (Russian ''Александр Павлович Ленский''; 1 (13) October 1847 in Kishinev – 13 (25) October26 October according to other reports 1908 in Moscow) was a Russian actor, director and theatrical educator. He was an outstanding figure of theatre under the Russian Empire The Russian Empire was an empire and the final period of the Russian monarchy from 1721 to 1917, ruling across large parts of Eurasia. It succeeded the Tsardom of Russia following the Treaty of Nystad, which ended the Great Northern War. .... References and notes 1847 births 1908 deaths Male actors from the Russian Empire Theatre directors from the Russian Empire Educators from the Russian Empire Actors from Chișinău 19th-century people from the Russian Empire 19th-century male actors from the Russian Empire Russian male stage actors {{Russia-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
