Giatsintova Sofya is a well-known and wonderful film and theater actress, who proved herself both as a magnificent theater director and artistic director of the Lenkom Theater. For a long time she was engaged in pedagogical activities, teaching young and talented actors. The outstanding actress Sofya Vladimirovna told about her life, love and work in the autobiographical book “With Memory Alone”.
Childhood
Giatsintova Sofya was born in Moscow. This happened on the fourth of August 1895. Her family was noble. Father, Vladimir Egorovich, was keen on writing. Mother, Elizabeth Alekseevna Venkstern, was engaged in raising children.
The uncle of the future actress Giatsintova Alexey Venkstern was not only a Pushkinist, but also composed small comic plays. Sister Sophia Elizabeth married the famous artist Mikhail Rodionov.
Getting an education
In 1911, Sofya Vladimirovna Giatsintova entered the capital's Higher Women's Courses, choosing the faculty of history. In these courses, she studied for two years, and also attended classes of actress Elena Muratova, where she mastered acting.
Theatrical career
Soon Giatsintova Sofya joined the Moscow art theater. Her responsibilities included constantly being at rehearsals and actively participating in all extras where the young actress had no words. But the beginning actress at that time was only fifteen years old, so she was glad to participate in theatrical productions.
And in 1910 Sophia Giatsintova passed the competition and entered the youth group formed at the Moscow Art Theater. They were engaged in the Stanislavsky system. She also got a stage name - Violet, which Kachalov gave her, and then colleagues began to constantly call her that.
Soon she already played small roles on the stage, where there were always a few words. Everyone treated her well, as the girl behaved diligently and neatly, and her charming appearance and the presence of enormous talent were added to this. At this time, she managed to play in six performances: the role of a handmaid in the theatrical production “At Life in the Claws”, the role of Mitil in the play “The Blue Bird”, the role of Masha in the theatrical production “For every sage is quite simple” and others.
The work of Sofia Vladimirovna in the art theater was highly appreciated by such theater teachers as Nemirovich-Danchenko and Stanislavsky. Soon, this group of talented youth was renamed the First Moscow Art Theater School. Since 1913, after the formation of the first studio school at the Moscow theater, the actress Giazintova Sofya Vladimirovna, which was always interesting to the audience, played in five performances: the role of Clementine in the theatrical production of The Death of Hope, the role of Mary in the play Twelfth Night Ides in the play "Peace Festival" and others.
When the second group was recruited, actress Sofya Giatsintova, whose photo is presented below, easily overshadows the other actors. Now the young and charming actress could not imagine life without this acting brotherhood. During this time, starting in 1925, Sofya Vladimirovna played in nine performances: the role of Sofya Likhutina in the theatrical production of Petersburg, the role of Sima in the performance of Odd Man, the role of Ranevskaya in the theatrical production of The Cherry Orchard and others.
In 1936, the Art Theater was closed, and this became a real tragedy for the actress Hyacinth. But in 1938, she begins to work elsewhere. Already at the beginning of her activity in the Lenin Komsomol Theater she played one of her best and most significant roles. This is the role of Nora in the play "Doll House". On the stage, Sofia Giatsintova, whose personal life is eventful, played more than 20 performances. Among them are such roles as the role of Natalya Petrovna in the play "A Month in the Village", the role of Lisa in the theatrical production of "The Living Corpse", the role of Alexandra Trapeznikova in the play "Good Name" and others.
Sofya Vladimirovna worked at the Lenin Komsomol Theater for over 40 years, playing a huge number of main roles on its stage and becoming the leading actress of this theater.
Giatsintova - head of the theater
After the death of her husband, Ivan Bersenev, Sofia Giatsintova, an actress who became famous for her roles, began to lead the theater. She needed an unusual world, because she was always in demand professionally. She participated in all the affairs of the theater, lived his life, but always skillfully kept her distance.
Cinematic career
In the movie, the charming and outstanding actress Giatsintova starred for the first time in 1946. In the film "Oath" directed by Mikhail Chiaureli, she played the role of Varvara Petrova, the wife of the protagonist. Stepan Petrov, along with his family, makes his way through the territory occupied by gangs in order to transmit to Lenin a letter in which fists are described. Stepan himself dies, but the wife fulfills her husband’s request and transmits a letter. She also brings up children who die for their homeland. This role is considered the most famous work of the talented actress Hyacinth.
In 1949, Sofya Vladimirovna plays the role of mother Ivanova in the film “The Fall of Berlin,” directed by Mikhail Chiareuli. It is known that in the cinema she was most often offered to star in propaganda films. In total, in the creative piggy bank of a talented actress, more than 10 films.
The role of Maria Ulyanova in the film "The Family of Ulyanovs" directed by Valentin Nevzorov is also considered significant. This film tells about the leader of the proletariat, shows his childhood and those years of his youth, until he left his native home.
The last role of the talented actress Hyacinth was the role of Ksenia Averyanova in the film "Autumn Days of Enchantment" directed by Vasily Davidchuk, which was released in 1980. The main character once invites guests to her house, wanting to make a precious gift - a record of the famous singer Fedor Chaliapin. This record is a rare copy.
Directorial activity
Since 1952, Sofya Vladimirovna also became the director of the Lenin Komsomol Theater, where she staged more than twenty performances. Significant is such work by Hyacinth as the play “Provincial”, which was staged in 1969 in conjunction with the television director Liliya Ishimbaeva. In addition, in the director’s piggy bank of Sofia Vladimirovna, the following theatrical productions can be distinguished: “Good Name”, “Smoke of the Fatherland” and others.
Educational activities
Since 1958, the talented outstanding actress Giatsintova began to engage in teaching activities at the GITIS named after Lunacharsky. For three years, she successfully taught students acting skills. And after this, Sofya Vladimirovna, along with the theater teacher Valentin Smyshlyaeva, also led the Belarusian class in the drama studio at the Moscow Art Theater.
Autobiographical book “With a memory in private”
Shortly before her death, Sofya Vladimirovna wrote an amazing book, which described in detail not only her life, but illuminated the theater world, without which she could not imagine her existence. About her family, about the people with whom her life and theater were brought together, about her beloved and close people - Sofia Giazintova wrote about all this in the book “With a memory in private”. It reflects the views of the actress herself on what happened in the country, in her fate, in the life of talented and famous actors. It is known that this autobiographical book has been reprinted several times.
Personal life
In 1910, the poet Sergei Soloviev was in love with a talented and charming actress, but the girl rejected him. Soon he threw himself out of the window, but survived, for some time he was in a psychiatric hospital.
It is known that in 1917, the charming actress Giatsintova married the beautiful and young officer Giatsintova. Erast Nikolaevich was her cousin. When the Civil War began, the young officer first joined the Volunteer Army, and then emigrated from Crimea to Europe. He later moved to America. But Sofya Vladimirovna did not follow her husband, but remained in Moscow, since she could not imagine life without a theater.
Sofya Vladimirovna will meet with her husband one more time later, when she and the theater will be on tour in Prague. Then, in 1923, this meeting influenced the decision of the actress, and the next year she achieved a divorce from her husband.
Sophia Vladimirovna had a strange and difficult time developing, as her biography, personal life testifies. Giatsintova Sofya Vladimirovna in the years of work in the capital's Art Theater met actor Ivan Bersenev. Despite the fact that this meeting took place in 1911, a romance between them began only after thirteen years.
When Sofya Vladimirovna stopped listening to friends' advice about Bersenev, who could take care of several women at once, the young people began a stormy romance. But they hid these relations, since Bersenev was not free, and Sofya Vladimirovna was afraid of the condemnation of her friends. But it was this connection that caused the divorce of Ivan Bersenev, and soon after that they got married.
Sofya Vladimirovna lived with her second husband until the end of his days, helping him in his work and always supporting him. The outstanding actress Giatsintova herself died on April 12, 1982.