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hidden Monuments of history and culture | Monakhov Nikolay Fedorovich hidden Monakhov N.F., (1875-1936), actor | |
MONAKHOV Nikolay Fedorovich (1875, St. Petersburg - 1936, Leningrad), actor, People's Artist of Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1932). Received some education at a school in St ... | | MONAKHOV Nikolay Fedorovich (1875, St. Petersburg - 1936, Leningrad), actor, People's Artist of Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1932). Received some education at a school in St. Petersburg, and in the City School of Novgorod, but graduated from neither. In 1896-1904, he performed as an accordionist, singer, balalaika-player, and couplets singer on stages of cafes theatres throughout St. Petersburg, Moscow, and in the provinces. From 1904, he played mostly simpleton parts; then he got a part as a jeune premier in an operetta. He scored an instant and huge success and became an operetta leading actor. He performed on operetta stages in St. Petersburg (Buff, Passage, Panaev Theatre), Moscow, and the provinces. In 1913-14 he was an actor at K.A. Mardzhanov's Free Theatre in Moscow, and in 1915-27 as a guest actor in various operettas. In 1918-19, Monakhov took part in the establishment of the Bolshoy Drama Theatre. In 1919-36 he was one of the BDT principals, becoming the BDT's director in 1921-23. His first performance at the BDT (Philip II in Don Carlos by F. Schiller, 1919) confirmed Monakhov's reputation as an outstanding tragic actor who masterfully painted the images of his characters with large lavish strokes while accurately representing psychological undertones. On the drama stage, Monakhov demonstrated his musical talent and virtuoso synthesising technique. Monakhov's best-performed dramatic roles at the BDT included Iago in Othello and Shylock in The Merchant of Venice by W. Shakespeare (1920); Franz Moors in F. Schiller's The Robbers (1919), Tsarevitch Alexey in the play of the same name by D.S. Merezhkovsky (1920); and Captain Christopherson in Anna Christie E. O'Neill (1924). Monakhov's talent was also exhibited in the comic characters of Mascarille in The Pretentious Young Ladies and Sganarelle in The Doctor in Spite of Himself by J.-B. Moliere, Truffaldino in The Servant of Two Masters by C. Goldoni (1921). His most recognized achievements are considered the creation of characters from modern plays: Rasputin in The Plot of the Empress by A.N. Tolstoy and P.E. Shchegolev and Ruzaev in The Rebellion by B. A. Lavreneva (1925), Granatov in A Man with a Brief Case by A.M. Faiko (1928), Egor Bulychov in Egor Bulychov and others by M. Gorky (1932). In 1928 he began acting in films. He wrote the memoirs Story of Life (Leningrad, 1936 and Leningrad; Moscow, 1961) and was buried at Necropolis of Artists. References: Николай Федорович Монахов: К 30-летию артистич. деятельности, 1896-1926. Л., 1926. (Дела и дни Большого драм. театра; № 2); Кугель А. Р. Театральные портреты. Л., 1967. С. 265-283. A. A. Kirillov.
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Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy with his family moved into the house of Vuich located in 6 Proletarskaya Street (now it is Tserkovnaya (Church) Street). In this house Tolstoy worked on the novels "Pyotr I" (Peter the First") ... | | Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy with his family moved into the house of Vuich located in 6 Proletarskaya Street (now it is Tserkovnaya (Church) Street). In this house Tolstoy worked on the novels "Pyotr I" (Peter the First"), "Chernoye zoloto" ("the Black Gold"), the trilogy of novels "Khozhdeniye po mukam", consisting of "Sestry" (“Sisters”), "Vosemnadtsaty god" (“The Year 1918”), and "Khmuroe utro" (“A Gloomy Morning”), wrote the story "Gobelen Marii-Antuanetti" ("The Tapestry of Marie-Antoinette"), the tale "Zolotoy Klyuchik" ("The Golden key"), the libretto for Yu. Shaporin's opera "Dekabristi" ("Decembrists"), started the work on "Oborona Tsaritsina" ("The Defence of Tsaritsin"). He lived and worked here untill his departure to Moscow in 1938. The house of A.N. Tolstoy, the centre of the cultural life of Detskoye Selo of the 1930s, was visited by writers V.A. Rozhdestvensky, V.M. Inber, V.Ya. Shishkiv, O.D. Forsh, I.A. Andronikov, L.V. Nikulin, B.A. Lavrenev, M.M. Zoshchenko, the literary critic P.Ye. Shchegolev, artists G.S. Ulanova, Ye.I. Time, V.I. Kachalov, N.V. Pevtsov, M.F. Monakhov, the painter K.S. Petrov-Vodkin, composers Yu.A. Shaporin, V.M. Bogdanov-Berezovsky, D.D. Shostakovich, conductors A.V. Gauk, A.Sh. Melik-Pashayev, scientists A.F. Ioffe, A.M. Bonch-Bruyevich, L.D. Landau. During 1933-1934 A.N. Tolstoy was a deputy of the Detskoye Selo District Soviet, his articles were often published on pages of the district newspaper "Bolshevistskoye slovo" ("Bolsheviks' Word"). Repairing excavators was mastered in the Stream Locomotive Repair Base named after Uritsky (PPRMZ) under the direction of the talented engineer Vladimir Ivanovich Shkvokhin, who became the director of plants "Remputmash" of the Ministry of Transport.
Persons Andronnikov Irakly Luarsabovich Bogdanov-Berezovsky Valerian Mikhailovich Bonch-Bruevich Mikhail Alexandrovich Forsh Olga Dmitrievna Gauk Alexander Vasilievich Inber Vera Mikhailovna Ioffe Abram Fedorovich Kachalov (the real surname is Shverubovich), Vasily Ivanovich Landau Lev Davydovich Lavrenev Boris Andreevich Melik-Pashayev, Aleksandr Shamilyevich Monakhov Nikolay Fedorovich Nikulin Lev Veniaminovich Petrov-Vodkin Kuzma Sergeevich Pevtsov Illarion Nikolaevich Rozhdestvensky Vsevolod Alexandrovich Shaporin Yury Alexandrovich Shchegolev Pavel Eliseevich Shishkov Alexander Semenovich Shkvokhin, Vladimir Ivanovich Shostakovich Dmitry Dmitrievich Time Elizaveta Ivanovna Tolstoy Alexey Nikolaevich Ulanova Galina Sergeevna Zoschenko Mikhail Mikhailovich
Addresses Tserkovnaya Street/Pushkin, town, house 6
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