In our article, we will talk about such a Soviet actor as Ivan Moskvin. What started his career? What roles brought fame and recognition to the artist? How successful was Ivan Moskvin? About all this and not only - further in the article.
Childhood and youth
Moskvin Ivan Mikhailovich was born on June 18, 1874. The future artist was born in the family of a watchmaker and an ordinary housewife. In addition to our hero, eight more children were brought up in a small house on Ilyinskaya Street. Of these, only the youngest son named Mikhail received a good education. Ivan was lucky to study at the City School, which he graduated in 1890. Then he immediately had to experience all the hardships of adulthood. In his youth, Ivan Moskvin served as an assistant in the trading organization of the merchant Kalashnikov, where in fact he was an “errand boy”. Then our hero held the positions of order acceptor and cast iron weigher at a metal casting plant.
In his free time, Ivan Moskvin attended church services in the Trinity-Sergius Lavra. The guy went here with his sister, each time overcoming seventy miles on foot. Church chants fell in love with Ivan. It was the impressions received from visiting religious services that led the young man to the idea of becoming an artist.
In 1893, Ivan Moskvin was enrolled in the Music and Drama School. Here he studied in the class of the famous theater director V. I. Nemirovich-Danchenko. Having received a diploma, the novice artist began to take part in theatrical enterprises.
The beginning of the creative path
In 1896, at the final exams of the Music and Drama School, Ivan Moskvin, an actor, received an assignment from his mentor Nemirovich-Danchenko to play several roles that were opposite in content to his stage character. Oddly enough, our hero was able to successfully reveal the images of diametrically opposite characters in the plays "Nora", "A festive dream before dinner" and "In the old years." Theater critics immediately started talking about Ivan as an extremely capable student of the great teacher Nemirovich-Danchenko.
In the spring of the same 1896, Moskvin received an offer to go as a member of a professional acting troupe to Tambov. It was at local venues that the first serious tests of Ivan Mikhailovich as a theater artist took place.
After successful debut performances, the young actor went to Yaroslavl, where he was in the troupe of Z.A. Malinowski. Here, for one season, Moskvin played more than seventy roles. Local theater critics immediately began to prophesy for Ivan a great future.
Career development
Since 1897, Ivan Moskvin began to play in a fairly respected theater near Moscow in the town of Kuskovo. This place attracted our hero with its proximity to the capital. The following season, the young artist moved to the Korsch theater troupe, which was located in one of the buildings of the Theological Lane of Moscow.
In 1898, the actor reunited with his former mentor Nemirovich-Danchenko, who was just opening a new Art Theater. Soon, Moskvin announced himself as a mature, skilled artist, playing the main role in the production of “Tsar Fedor Ivanovich”. Subsequently, this image became a real calling card of the actor.
In 1906, Ivan Mikhailovich first went on tour abroad. Success came to the artist after the first performances. In the foreign press, two names were most often noted - the director of plays K.S. Stanislavsky and actor I.M. Moskvina. Especially liked the game of the actor to the public from Berlin. Local theatergoers immediately christened our hero a brilliant artist.
Movie debut
Ivan Moskvin appeared in Russian cinema in 1919. During this period, the famous theater artist was invited to play the main character named Polikey in the film "Polikushka", based on the eponymous story by the classic of Russian literature - Leo Tolstoy. Participation in the work on the creation of the tape once again glorified Ivan Mikhailovich. Subsequently, the film "Polikushka" acquired the status of the first Soviet film, which received worldwide recognition.
In 1925, Moskvin decided to try himself as a director. The first work for Ivan Mikhailovich in this field was the film "College Registrar." The artist acted not only as the director of the art tape, but also played the main role of a character named Simeon Vyrin in it.
Filmography
During his career in Soviet cinema, Ivan Moskvin managed to take part in the filming of the following films:
- "Polikushka".
- "Man was born."
- "College registrar."
- "By pike command."
- "Concert on the screen."
- "Ranks and people."
- "Surgery".
- "Border is locked tight".
Personal life
The first wife of Ivan Mikhailovich was actress Lyubov Geltser, who was the daughter of the famous Russian ballet dancer Vasily Fedorovich Geltser. However, celebrities soon divorced, and Moskvin connected his life with a partner in the theater scene Alla Tarasova. However, this union was not destined to last long. Tarasova left Ivan and married a high-ranking military man, Major General Pronin.
Subsequently, Moskvin decided to restore an alliance with his first wife, Lyubov Geltser. The latter entered his house already with her son from a third-party marriage.