''Balakirev The Buffoon'' (russian: Шут Балакирев, Shut Balakirev) is a 2002 Russian televised version of 1999

Lenkom Lenkom Theatre, formerly known as Lenin’s Komsomol Moscow Theatre or Moscow Leninist Komsomol Theatre is the official name of what was once known as the Moscow State Theatre named after Komsomol, a Communist youth league set up by Vladimir Leni ...

theatrical presentation,

written Writing is a medium of human communication which involves the representation of a language through a system of physically inscribed, mechanically transferred, or digitally represented symbols. Writing systems do not themselves constitute h ...

Grigori Gorin Grigori Gorin (russian: Григо́рий Го́рин), real name Grigori Israilevich Ofshtein (russian: Григо́рий Изра́илевич Офштейн; March 12, 1940, Moscow — June 15, 2000, Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian playw ...

. Theatrical version directed by

Mark Zakharov Mark Anatolyevich Zakharov (russian: Марк Анатольевич Захаров; 13 October 1933 – 28 September 2019) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film director, screenwriter and pedagogue best known for his fantasy parable movies. He ...

, televised version by Nikolay Skuyibin.

Plot

Buffoon A jester, court jester, fool or joker was a member of the household of a nobleman or a monarch employed to entertain guests during the medieval and Renaissance eras. Jesters were also itinerant performers who entertained common folk at fairs and ...

of the court circle, Ivan Balakirev,Балакирева полное собрание анекдотов шута, бывшего при дворе Петра Великого. Москва. 1839. В типографии Кириллова. 72 (12) is a constant participant of the Tzar's festivities and

buffoonery A jester, court jester, fool or joker was a member of the household of a nobleman or a monarch employed to entertain guests during the medieval and Renaissance eras. Jesters were also itinerant performers who entertained common folk at fairs and ...

. Under the will of the circumstances he was drawn into the intricate relations inside the court and inside the royal family...

Cast

Oleg Yankovsky Oleg Ivanovich Yankovsky (russian: Оле́г Ива́нович Янко́вский; 23 February 1944 – 20 May 2009) was a Soviet Union, Soviet and Russia, Russian actor who excelled in psychologically sophisticated roles of modern intellectu ...

, Aleksandr Lazarev jr. as ''

Peter The Great Peter I ( – ), most commonly known as Peter the Great,) or Pyotr Alekséyevich ( rus, Пётр Алексе́евич, p=ˈpʲɵtr ɐlʲɪˈksʲejɪvʲɪtɕ, , group=pron was a Russian monarch who ruled the Tsardom of Russia from t ...

'' * Sergei Frolov as ''Ivan Balakirev'' *

Aleksandra Zakharova Aleksandra Markovna Zakharova ( rus, Алекса́ндра Ма́рковна Заха́рова, born 17 June 1962) is a Soviet and Russian actress, daughter of famous film director Mark Zakharov and actress Nina Lapshinova. Zakharova has been ...

, Maria Mironova as ''

Catherine I of Russia Catherine I ( rus, Екатери́на I Алексе́евна Миха́йлова, Yekaterína I Alekséyevna Mikháylova; born , ; – ) was the second wife and empress consort of Peter the Great, and Empress Regnant of Russia from 1725 un ...

'' * Aleksandr Lazarev jr. as

Willem Mons Willem () is a Dutch and West FrisianRienk de Haan, ''Fryske Foarnammen'', Leeuwarden, 2002 (Friese Pers Boekerij), , p. 158. masculine given name. The name is Germanic, and can be seen as the Dutch equivalent of the name William in English, Gui ...

Aleksandr Zbruyev Aleksandr Viktorovich Zbruyev (russian: Александр Викторович Збруев; born 31 March 1938, in Moscow, Soviet Union) is Soviet and Russian theatrical and cinema actor. Selected filmography * ''My Younger Brother'' (1962) as ...

as ''Count Yaguzhinskii, chief prosecutor'' *

Nikolai Karachentsov Nikolai Petrovich Karachentsov (russian: Николай Петрович Караченцов, 27 October 1944 – 26 October 2018) was a Soviet and Russian film and stage actor of Lenkom Theatre. Karachentsov's popularity peaked in the late 1970 ...

Viktor Rakov Viktor Viktorovich Rakov (russian: Виктор Викторович Раков; born February 5, 1962) is a Soviet and Russian film and theater actor. People's Artist of Russia (2003). Biography Was born February 5, 1962, in Moscow. In 1984 he ...

as ''

Alexander Menshikov Alexander Menshikov may refer to: * Alexander Danilovich Menshikov (1673–1729), Russian statesman * Alexander Sergeyevich Menshikov Prince Alexander Sergeyevich Menshikov (russian: Князь Алекса́ндр Серге́евич Ме́н� ...

'' *

Olesya Zheleznyak Olesya Vladimirovna Zheleznyak (russian: Оле́ся Влади́мировна Железня́к; born November 11, 1974) is a Russian theater and film actress, TV presenter.

as ''Dunya Burykina'' * Yuri Kolychev as ''

Peter Shafirov Baron Peter Pavlovich Shafirov (russian: Пётр Павлович Шафиров; 1670–1739) was a Russian statesman and a prominent coadjutor of Peter the Great. Early life and career Shafirov was born into a Polish Jewish family. His fa ...

'' *

Tatyana Kravchenko Tatyana Eduardovna Kravchenko (russian: Татья́на Эдуа́рдовна Кра́вченко; born 9 December 1953, Stalino (since 1961 — Donetsk), Ukrainian SSR, USSR) is a Soviet and Russian film and stage actress, People's Artist of Ru ...

as ''Anisya Kirillovna Balakireva'' *

Lyudmila Artemyeva Ludmila, Ludmilla, or Lyudmila (Cyrillic script, Cyrillic: Людмила, ''Lyudmila'') may refer to: People * Ludmila (given name) a Slavic female given name (including a list of people with the name) * Ludmila da Silva (born 1994), Brazilia ...

as ''Darya Burykina'' *

Lyudmila Porgina Lyudmila Andreevna Porgina (russian: Людмила Андреевна По́ргина; born November 24, 1948 in Moscow) is a Soviet and Russian stage and film actress, named an Honored Artist of the Russian Federation in 1999 and the widow of ...

as ''Golovkina, chamber-maid'' * Igor Fokin as ''Shapsky, chief jester''

Balakirev in reality

Based on a real story set time in a

era. Ivan Alexandrovich Balakirev was a trusted servant of Peter I and

Catherine I Catherine I ( rus, Екатери́на I Алексе́евна Миха́йлова, Yekaterína I Alekséyevna Mikháylova; born , ; – ) was the second wife and empress consort of Peter the Great, and Empress Regnant of Russia from 1725 un ...

since 1699. In the time of the empress Anne he became an official court buffoon. One of the version around the Balakirev surname etymology is that it formed from ''Bala kire'', a

tatar The Tatars ()Tatar
in the Collins English Dictionary is an umbrella term for different

for ''stubborn kid''.

Ksenofont Polevoy Ksenofont Alexeyevich Polevoy (russian: Ксенофонт Алексеевич Полевой, 1 August 1801, Irkutsk, Imperial Russia, – 21 April 1867, Tyukhmenevo, Smolensk Governorate, Imperial Russia) was a Russian writer, literary crit ...

published a book entitled ''Collection of anecdotes by Balakirev'', using the real name of Ivan Balakirev as his pseudonym. It's in fact a collection from various people and sources.

References

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