Bersenev Ivan Nikolaevich - an outstanding director and actor of theater and cinema of the Soviet Union. It is about this wonderful person that the article will be discussed.
Childhood
Ivan Nikolaevich Pavlishchev was born in the capital in April 1889. As a child, the boy was transported to Ukraine. His father worked as a manager in trade in Kiev. When Ivan was seven years old, his father dies.
Hobbies and the beginning of a creative path
At a young age, as a gymnasium student, Ivan became interested in theater and became a member of the performances of the Lepkovsky drama school. Since high school students were not allowed to play on stage, Pavlishchev had to abandon his father's surname and take the pseudonym Bersenev.
Ivan, after graduating from high school, enters the University of Kiev, the faculty of jurisprudence, simultaneously plays in performances. Gradually, the craving for creativity turns out to be stronger, and in 1907 the young man leaves his studies at the university and enters the Solovtsov Theater in Kiev. K. A. Mardzhanov becomes his leader, the meeting with which was a decisive event in the life of Ivan Nikolaevich Bersenev. Subsequently, Bersenev transferred to Kote Mardzhanov in the Odessa city theater and played in it, as well as in Yekaterinodar, Vinnitsa and other provincial cities in 1908-1909, playing mainly the main roles (for example, Rode in the Chekhov play "Three Sisters").
Activities in adulthood
In 1911, Ivan Nikolaevich Bersenev joined the Moscow Art Theater. For the period of work until 1919, the actor played about twenty roles.
The hungry winter in Moscow 1918-1919 prompted Bersenev to tour with the Moscow Art Theater troupe in Ukraine. While working in Kharkov, the troupe with V.I. Kachalov at the head was cut off from Moscow in connection with the Civil War, and the wanderings of the Kachalov group began, first in southern Russia, then abroad. Only in May of the 22nd group returned to Moscow. In December of this year, Ivan Nikolaevich was invited by the actor and board member to the First Moscow Art Theater Studio, in 1924 Bersenev became an assistant to M. Chekhov, Director of the Second Moscow Art Theater Studio, then Deputy and, finally, Director and Artistic Director of the Theater. Bersenev's directorial work was first seen in 1925.
Ivan Nikolaevich has been working in the ISMOS Theater for two years as an actor and director.
From 1938 to 1951, Bersenev was the constant and indispensable director of the Lenkom Theater on Malaya Dmitrovka and an excellent actor. The leader brought a team of remarkable actors from the Moscow Art Theater School with him, including Sofia Giatsintova.
Ivan Bersenev: personal life
The wife of Ivan Nikolaevich - Giazintova Sofya Vladimirovna - was born in 1895 and died at the age of eighty-seven. A magnificent actress, theater director, in 1955 she was awarded the title of People's Artist of the USSR.
Violet, Violet - that was the name of Sonya at the Art Theater. The talented, diligent and emotional girl quickly began to receive small roles. Around Sonya, fans were constantly spinning. The girl, taking their courtship, did not give anyone special preference.
Hyacinth was lucky to work with Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko, Vakhtangov and Chekhov. Sophia becomes the leading actress of the Second Moscow Art Theater Studio. Here she finds her love - a talented actor, a wonderful director and just a handsome man, Ivan Nikolaevich Bersenev. The marriage between them lasted thirty-five years. Ivan Nikolaevich dearly and faithfully loved and idolized his wife until he met Galina Sergeyevna Ulanova.
Ulanova in the life of Bersenev
In 1949, Bersenev met the great ballerina Galina Ulanova, who was 21 years younger than him, they lived in a civil marriage. Bersenev was so in love that he left his previously beloved Sofya Giatsintova and began to meet with Ulanova at the Metropol, then moved to her at Novoslobodskaya. He broke off relations with his legal wife Ivan Nikolaevich hard, he suffered very much from his own betrayal, but he could not resist the magnificent Ulanova. Galina’s relationship with the famous director and actor lasted only two years. The novel was bright and fast-moving.
Bersenev Ivan Nikolaevich died in 1951, and two loving beautiful women stood at the memorial service at the tomb: a wonderful actress and legal wife Sofya Vladimirovna and a magnificent ballerina and common-law wife Galina Sergeevna.
Characteristics of Bersenev
Spectacular appearance, beautiful, sonorous voice, incredible charm, artistry and organizational talent are qualities that Ivan Nikolaevich possessed. Bersenev looked sleek, self-confident and spoiled, accustomed to comfortable conditions. In magnificent costumes, snow-white shirts, with butterflies and an invariable cigar in the corner of his lips, Ivan Nikolaevich resembled an English lord. In fact, he was unpretentious and simple. A man by nature, shy, uncertain and timid, Bersenev always doubted whether he would cope with the next role, and played it brilliantly.
The whole hectic life of Bersenev was connected with the need for theater. The theater was its air, each performance was a holiday, a triumph. An artist of a bright personality, showing a sea of imagination and witty decisions, full of creative ideas, endowed with a rich inner world, he remembered thousands of his daily duties as a manager, about all the actors, their problems and their roles, the words of which he constantly mumbled.
Ivan Nikolaevich was harsh, unjust, and harsh, but his passion, obsession and devotion to the theater overshadowed the negative qualities of Bersenev.
"Sword of Mercy"
This is an attribute for ceremonies associated with the coronation of monarchs in the UK. Historians suggest that the sword of mercy was the property of Edward the Confessor. Its peculiarity lies in the fact that the blade is broken at the sword, therefore it is called shortened. In ancient times, it was considered an honor to carry a sword before the king, which was an act of mercy. According to legend, the edge of the sword was torn off by an angel to prevent an unjust kill. A sword of mercy was also used for knighting.
The film "Sword of Mercy" was shot in 1918, its premiere took place in Kharkov in 1919, January 31. The film is the psychological drama of the publishing house "Screen". The director of the film was George Azagarov, the scriptwriter was Olga Blazhevich. Bersenev Ivan Nikolaevich starred in the role of the young beautiful Voite, the son of Count Stephen Tsikhovsky. Unfortunately, the film has not been preserved to this day.
Bersenev's contribution to theatrical art
With the advent of the remarkable director and wonderful actor I.N. Bersenev, the theater on Malaya Dmitrovka became one of the leading theaters in Moscow.
Theater them. The wonderful actors of Russia and the Soviet Union were brought up by the Lenin Komsomol, but when Ivan Nikolaevich left in the prime of life and creative talent, he literally "became orphaned." For many years, various leaders were replaced, but they did not leave a special trace, memory and vivid events and performances.
Bersenev starred in the movie unfairly, but his roles are leading, vivid and memorable.
A huge contribution was made by Ivan Nikolaevich Bersenev in the development of Soviet theater art, for which he was awarded numerous awards from the government.
Russian actors can be proud that they had such a wonderful teacher, a role model. Bright memory to this wonderful person!