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The Ardent Heart
''An Ardent Heart'' (russian: Горячее сердце, translit=Goryacheye serdtse; also translated as ''Burning Heart'') is a play by Alexander Ostrovsky written in 1858 and first published in the January 1869 issue of ''Otechestvennye Zapiski''. It was premiered on 15 January 1869, at the Moscow's Maly Theatre and then on 29 January at the Saint Petersburg's Alexandrinsky Theatre. History "I am now working upon a new large play which will be finished in November," Ostrovsky wrote to his friend, the Alexandrinka actor Fyodor Burdin in October 1869. Once it was over, the dramatist sent the copy to ''Otechestvennye Zapisky'' magazine which published it in the No.1, January 1869 issue. Burdin, as usual, has taken it upon himself to see the play through the censorship routine. To play it safe, he's left his own inscription upon the title page: "The action here takes place 30 years ago." On January 4, 1869, the comedy was licensed by the Imperial Theatres of Russia. On January 15 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aleksander 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] |
Sergey Shumsky
Sergey Vasilyevich Chesnokov (russian: Сергей Васильевич Чесноков; 19 October 1820, in Moscow, Imperial Russia – 18 February 1878, in Moscow, Imperial Russia) was a Russian stage actor better known under his stage name, Sergey Shumsky. Career A Shchepkin School graduate, Sergey Chesnokov made his stage debut as early as 1830, in the Nikolai Khmelnitsky's vaudeville Vaudeville (; ) is a theatrical genre of variety entertainment born in France at the end of the 19th century. A vaudeville was originally a comedy without psychological or moral intentions, based on a comical situation: a dramatic composition ... ''Actors Among Themselves'', playing a character called Shumsky. The dramatist Fyodor Kokoshkin, who was the Imperial Theatres's Moscow department director at the time, praised the boy's performance and suggested that he should keep this surname to himself, as a stage name. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikolai Khmelyov
Nikolai Pavlovich Khmelyov russian: Николай Павлович Хмелёв, — 1 November 1945) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor, theater director and pedagogue, associated with the Moscow Art Theatre and later the Yermolova Theatre. Biography Nikolai Khmelyov was born in Sormovo, Nizhny Novgorod, to a working-class family. "A man who was highly ambitious, always dissatisfied with himself and difficult to contact with," he joined the MAT's Second Studio in 1919, soon to become "one of the most intriguing figures of the 'second generation' of MAT actors," according to the theatre historian Inna Solovyova. He excelled in the parts of Tsar Fyodor in '' Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich'' by Aleksey Tolstoy (1935), Karenin in '' Anna Karenina'' (1937), Tuzenbach in '' Three Sisters'' by Anton Chekhov (1940), but before that as Alexey Turbin in '' The Days of the Turbins'' by Mikhail Bulgakov, which brought him critical recognition and fame in 1926. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boris Dobronravov
Boris Georgiyevich Dobronravov (russian: Борис Георгиевич Добронравов, 16 April 1896, Moscow, Imperial Russia, – 27 October 1949, Moscow, USSR) was a Russian and Soviet actor, associated with the Moscow Art Theatre.Boris Dobronravov at the Soviet Theatre Encyclopedia // Театральная энциклопедия. Гл. ред. С. С. Мокульский. Т. 1 — М.: Советская энциклопедия, А — «Глобус», 1961, стр. 707) The People's Artist of the USSR (1937), and a recipient of numerous high-profile state awards, including the Order of Lenin (1938) and the Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1837), he is best remembered for his parts in ''An Ardent Heart'' and '' The Storm'' by Alexander Ostrovsky (Narkis, Tikhon respectively), ''The Days of the Turbins'' (Mikhail Bulgakov, Myshlayevsky), ''Dead Souls'' (Nikolai Gogol, Nozdryov), ''The Cherry Orchard'' (Anton Chekhov, Lopakhin).Boris Dobronravov at the Great Sov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladimir Gribunin
Vladimir Fyodorovich Gribunin (russian: Владимир Фёдорович Грибунин, in Kostroma Governorate, Russian Empire – 1 April 1933 in Moscow, USSR), was a male actor from the Russian Empire and later the Soviet Union. He learned drama at the Maly Theatre Drama college in the class of Mikhail Sadovsky, then joined the Moscow Art Theatre in 1898 with which he stayed until his death in 1933. Critically lauded were his performances as Nikita (in Leo Tolstoy's '' Power of Darkness''), Simeonov-Pishchik (Anton Chekhov's ''The Cherry Orchard'') and Kuroslepov in the 1926 production of Alexander Ostrovsky's ''An Ardent Heart'', the latter considered to be the high point of his artistic career. He was cast in three early Soviet films: ''Alyosha's Pipe'' (Алёшина дудка, 1919), ''Threesome'' (Трое, 1919) and ''Limping Landlord'' (Хромой барин, 1920). "Never rivaling Stanislavski, Moskvin, Kachalov or Leonidov in terms of the scope of artistic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikhail Tarkhanov (actor)
Mikhail Mikhaylovich Moskvin (russian: Михаил Михайлович Москвин, 19 September 1877, Moscow, Imperial Russia, — 18 August 1948, Moscow, USSR) was a Russian and Soviet stage actor and theatre director, better known by his stage name Mikhail Tarkhanov (Тарханов). Having made his stage debut in 1898 on stage the Ryazan Theatre, he performed in numerous troupes (including those led by Nikolai Sinelnikov and Vasily Kachalov) before joining the Moscow Art Theatre in 1922 where he soon became one of the leading actors and, in the late 1920s, a stage director. In 1935 he started to teach drama and in 1942-1948 was the head of Russian Academy of Theatre Arts. In 1937 Tarkhanov was awarded the prestigious People's Artist of the USSR title. He was the recipient on numerous high-profile Soviet state awards, including the Order of Lenin (1838, 1947) and the Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1937) as well as the Stalin Prize laureate (1943, 1st Grade). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivan Moskvin
Ivan Mikhailovich Moskvin (russian: Иван Михайлович Москвин; 18 June 1874, in Moscow – 16 February 1946, in Moscow) was a Russian and Soviet actor and theater director. People's Artist of the USSR (1936). He became director of the Moscow Art Theatre in 1943. He was a student in the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra from 1893 to 1896. He also performed in the Yaroslavl company and the Korsh company in Moscow. Filmography * '' Polikushka'' (1922) * '' The Stationmaster'' (1925) * ''An Hour with Chekhov'' (1929) * ''Wish upon a Pike'' (1938) File:Moskvin Fyodor.jpg, Moskvin as Tsar Fyodor in ''Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich'' by A. K. Tolstoy in 1898 File:Ivan Moskvin and Vasily Kachalov in The Lower Depths.jpg, Moskvin (left) in ''The Lower Depths'' by Maxim Gorky in 1902 File:Ivan Moskving in Revizor.jpg, Moskvin as Bobchinsky in ''Revizor'' by Nikolai Gogol in 1906 File:Ivan Moskvin as the Cat in The Blue Bird 1908 trim.jpg, Moskvin as the Cat in ''The Blue Bird'' by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moscow Art Theatre
The Moscow Art Theatre (or MAT; russian: Московский Художественный академический театр (МХАТ), ''Moskovskiy Hudojestvenny Akademicheskiy Teatr'' (МHАТ)) was a theatre company in Moscow. It was founded in 1898 by the seminal Russian theatre practitioner Konstantin Stanislavski, together with the playwright and director Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko. It was conceived as a venue for naturalistic theatre, in contrast to the melodramas that were Russia's dominant form of theatre at the time. The theatre, the first to regularly put on shows implementing Stanislavski's system, proved hugely influential in the acting world and in the development of modern American theatre and drama. It was officially renamed the Gorky Moscow Art Theatre in 1932. In 1987, the theatre split into two troupes, the Chekhov Moscow Art Theatre and the Gorky Moscow Art Theatre. Beginnings At the end of the 19th-century, Stanislavski and Nemirovich-Danchenk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikolai Sazonov
Nikolai Fyodorovich Sazonov (russian: Николай Фёдорович Сазонов; 2 May 1843, in Saint Petersburg – 4 January 1902, in Saint Petersburg) was a Russian stage actor, associated with the Alexandrinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg. Having made his stage debut in 1864, Sazonov soon became one of Alexandrinka's leading actors, who excelled mainly in operettas. Starting from the mid-1870s, he became involved in a more serious repertoire, and was lauded for his parts (in all, 25 of them) in the plays by Alexander Ostrovsky. He was the first performer of the part of Trigorin in Anton Chekhov's ''The Seagull''.Linksy, V. Н.Ф. Сазонов. ''Teatr i Iskusstvo'', No.1, 1903. pp. 5-6 The writer Sophia Smirnova (1852–1921) was his wife. References Russian stage actors Male actors from Saint Petersburg 1843 births 1902 deaths Burials at Nikolskoe Cemetery Burials at Tikhvin Cemetery {{russia-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivan Gorbunov
Ivan Fyodorovich Gorbunov (russian: Ива́н Фёдорович Горбуно́в, 22 September 1831 — 5 January 1896) was a Russian writer and stage actor, considered to be a forefather for the "literary theatre" subgenre in his county.Горбунов, Иван Федорович at Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary Career Born in in the of the |
Vasily Samoylov
Vasily Vasilyevich Samoylov (russian: Василий Васильевич Самойлов, 25 January 1813, Saint Petersburg, Imperial Russia — 8 April 1887, Saint Petersburg, Imperial Russia) was a Russian stage actor, associated with Alexandrinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg. Initially an opera singer, he was also an artist whose several albums of paintings include the gallery of stage self-portraits, amounting to a visual autobiography.В.В. Самойлов at the Russian Online encyclopedia Krugosvet Biography Samoylov was born into an artistic family of the opera singers Vasily Samoylov (1782—1839) and Sofya Chernikova (1787-1854) and was educated f ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pyotr Zubrov
Pyotr Ivanovich Zubrov (russian: Пётр Иванович Зубров, 1822, Saint Petersburg, Imperial Russia, — 9 December 1873, Saint Petersburg, Imperial Russia) was a Russian stage actor, associated with the Alexandrinsky Theatre. Having debuted on stage in 1851, he achieved his first success as Gordey Tortsov in Alexander Ostrovsky's '' Poverty is No Vice'', and since then excelled in many of the latter's plays' productions, as well as the works by Alexey Pisemsky (Nikashka in ''A Bitter Fate'') and Nikolai Gogol (Gorodnichy in ''Revizor ''The Government Inspector'', also known as ''The Inspector General'' ( rus, links=no, Ревизор, Revizor, literally: "Inspector"), is a satirical play by Russian dramatist and novelist, Nikolai Gogol. Originally published in 1836, the pla ...''). Zubrov translated several plays into Russian and authored two original vaudevilles, ''The Deaf One Is to Blame'' (Глухой всему виной) and ''Honestly'' (Честное ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
