A great number of ranks and professions were outstanding man Pavel Osipovich Chomsky. He was a famous director, People's Artist of the RSFSR, artistic director of the State Academic Theater named after the Mossovet, Honored Artist of the Latvian SSR, professor, and also Honored Artist of the RSFSR.
Biography
Until 1941, little was known about how Pavel Osipovich Chomsky lived. The personal life of the director until this time is little covered. There is very little information about his parents and family.
It is known that Pavel’s parents were employees and had a law degree. He did not grow up in a simple family. Father's name was Chomsky Osip Pavlovich, he worked in the Ministry of Paper and Forestry as a legal adviser. Mom Khomskaya Berta Isidorovna also worked as a lawyer for a long time, she was even elected a people's judge.
In Moscow, in March 1925, Pavel Osipovich Chomsky was born. Nationality never interfered with his work, he held high managerial positions. His wife was born in 1939. In the marriage of Pavel and Natalia, three daughters were born: Natalia, born in 1959, Catherine, born in 1966, and Love, born in 1975.
Pavel Chomsky had four grandchildren: Anna, Barbara, Mikhail and Esther.
Behind Enemy Lines
The terrible tragedy of the early 40s changed the fate of millions of people, including Khomsky Pavel Osipovich. His biography has changed dramatically in connection with these events.
Until 1941, he studied at a secondary school in Moscow. After the outbreak of war, he decided to go on the construction of defensive fortifications in the Smolensk region. In June of the forty-first, he leaves for a construction site as part of the Komsomol brigade. At this time, German troops landed on this territory, and the brigade was completely cut off from its soldiers, the Germans took them into a tight ring, the Komsomol members were behind enemy lines.
There was nothing else to do but break through the environment. The young and inexperienced brigade was reorganized into a militia and, under the leadership of an experienced foreman, was sent to break through to their soldiers. Despite the fact that they were people who did not have military experience, they had to engage in an exchange of fire with the enemy more than once and even fight with tanks. A large number of militias died, but still they managed to break through the enemy ring.
Pavel Osipovich Chomsky at that time did not reach the draft age, he was only 16 years old, and everyone who was older was immediately enlisted in the ranks of the army. He and all the young guys were sent home.
War years
Since he did not enter the army by age, he went to live with his relatives in Tomsk. At that time, my father was transferred to Tomsk to the position of deputy director of the plant.
After graduating from grade 10, where he passed exams externally, Pavel entered the Leningrad Theater Institute, which was evacuated to Tomsk. After the second course, he receives a summons for admission to the Red Army.
He spends very little time at a military school and decides to file a report on demobilization to the front. His petition is satisfied and immediately sent to Gorky, where he is trained in an artillery regiment. Having received a specialty as a gunner-gunner, the future director Khomsky Pavel Osipovich served on the Western Front.
The beginning of creative activity
The command of the unit decides to transfer Pavel to the army variety theater and miniatures, as soon as it became known that before the war he studied at the Leningrad Theater Institute. This theater, to maintain the military spirit, very often traveled with numbers to the front, and also constantly visited various military units of the Moscow region.
In this theater, Pavel served until the end of the war. In 1945, he was discharged and decided to continue his career. Then he undergoes training in Moscow, at the Stanislavsky Opera and Drama Studio.
First work
In 1947, he completed his studies, and he was immediately hired here to work, however, his career at the Stanislavsky Opera and Drama Theater lasted only a year. Pavel leaves Moscow and goes to work at the Russian Drama Theater in Riga. Here he worked as a second director, along with A. A. Efremov, and an actor.
It was in this theater that Pavel Osipovich Chomsky made his debut as a director. His first performances were the works of M. Svetlov, entitled "20 Years Later" and the work of Calderon, "They Are Not Joking With Love." The plays really liked the audience and received a large number of positive reviews from theater critics.
After such a success, Chomsky was noticed and offered to go to work at the State Theater for Young Spectators of the Latvian SSR. First, he was given the post of full-time director, and in 1957 Pavel Chomsky became the main director.
He combined his work in the theater with his studies at GITIS, at the faculty of theater studies. The transfer to the post of chief theater director made Pavel Chomsky famous throughout the Soviet Union as the youngest director, and a little later he was awarded the title of Honored Artist of the Latvian SSR.
During the time that he worked in the Riga Young Spectator Theater as a director, Chomsky staged more than forty performances, each of which was a real masterpiece.
In 1959, Chomsky, already as the main director, returned to the Riga Russian Drama Theater. Many outstanding performances were also staged within these walls, such as The Naked King by Evgeny Schwartz, Irkutsk Story by Alexei Arbuzov, The Ocean by Abram Stein and many others.
Homecoming
In those days, Leningrad and Moscow theaters often came to Riga . After reviewing some of Chomsky’s works, the leadership of the Leningrad Theater decided to invite a talented young director to stage the play Two Colors by Kuznetsov and Zak, and then Seeing Off White Nights by Vera Panova.
Both performances were stunning. Not only the spectator liked them, but also the theater management, in connection with this success, Chomsky was offered the position of chief director of the Lenin Komsomol Leningrad Theater.
But not everything went so smoothly. For five years of work in this theater, Pavel Osipovich Chomsky staged a large number of famous performances, however, not all of his works appealed to representatives of the nomenclature top of the city. He was severely reprimanded several times, including for the play "On the Road" by Viktor Rozov. By the way, the director until the last days considered this particular work to be his best creation.