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CHERKASOV Nikolay Konstantinovich (1903, St. Petersburg - 1966, Leningrad), actor, People's Artist of the USSR (1947). Graduated from the Leningrad Dramatics School in 1926 ... | | CHERKASOV Nikolay Konstantinovich (1903, St. Petersburg - 1966, Leningrad), actor, People's Artist of the USSR (1947). Graduated from the Leningrad Dramatics School in 1926. In 1919-21, worked as a mime at the Petrograd Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre, and in 1922-25, an artist at the Petrograd Studio of Young Ballet (among his parts is Don Quixote in L.F. Minkus's ballet of the same name). Caught the public's attention in productions by the Dramatics School as a brilliant character actor and dynamically expressive comedy actor mainly inclined toward eccentric transformation (Sir Andrew in W. Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, Rabourdin in The heirs of Rabourdin by E. Zola, Pat in the mock dance Pat, Patachon and Charlie Chaplin, which he performed for many years on various stages, and which was filmed). The same qualities characterised Cherkasov's work at the Leningrad Young Spectators' Theatre (1926-29; Don Quixote in A.Y. Brustein and B.V. Zon's play of the same name; father Moor in The Robbers by F. Schiller; Zvezdintsev in The Fruits of Culture by N. Tolstoy), at the travelling Kosmoglaz Theatre of New Operetta (1927-28), throughout Leningrad and Moscow music-halls, circuses in the Moscow and Volga region (1929-30), and as part of the Leningrad Travelling Comedy Theatre (1931-33). In 1934-65, he acted at the Leningrad Academic Drama Theatre (see Alexandrinsky Theatre), where he brilliantly created the comic characters of Varlaam in Alexander Pushkin's Boris Godunov (1934 and 1949), Osip in The Inspector General by N.V. Gogol (1936 and 1952), and Bulanov in The Forest by A.N. Ostrovsky (1936). Other significant roles included Peter the Great in A.N. Tolstoy's play Peter I (1938), Don Quixote in Don Quixote (1941) and Khludov in Flight (1958) by M.A. Bulgakov, Ivan the Terrible in Great Prince by V.A. Solovyev (1945), and Baron in The Miserly Knight by Alexander Pushkin (1962). Found success as a clown, abandoned this specialisation, and began rotating between characters of "historical" and "socially heroic" natures (Dronov in Everything Remains for the People by S.I. Aleshin; for the theatre in 1959, on film in 1963). He began appearing in films in 1927, playing over 40 parts, including Kolka Loshak in Hectic Days (1935), Paganel in Captain Grant's Children (1936), Professor Polezhaev in Baltic Deputy and Prince Alexey in Peter the First (1937), Alexander Nevsky in Alexander Nevsky (1938), Ivan the Terrible in Ivan the Terrible (1945), and Don Quixote in Don Quixote (1957). From 1948, and for the rest of his life, he was the chairman of the Leningrad Department of the All-Union Theatre Society. A major part of Cherkasov's works and recollections about him are collected in the book Nikolay Cherkasov (Moscow, 1976). He won the Stalin Prize (1941, 1946, 1950, and 1951), the Lenin Prize (1964), a prize at the Moscow Film Festival in Stratford, Canada (1958), and the Grand Prix of the International Exhibition in Paris (1937). He lived at 27 Kronverkskaya Street (memorial plaque installed) from 1944 until 1966. Buried at Necropolis of Artists. A new street in the Vyborgsky District was named after Cherkasov in 1970. Reference: Герасимов Ю. К., Скверчинская Ж. Г. Черкасов. М., 1976. A. A. Kirillov.
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January. In Tsarskoye Selo, the Town Duma, Zemstvo and Menshevik Soviet were dissolved. N.I. Tatarintsev became the head of the new Bolshevik Soviet, this Soviet was declared as the only power in Tsarskoye Selo. 15 January ... | | January. In Tsarskoye Selo, the Town Duma, Zemstvo and Menshevik Soviet were dissolved. N.I. Tatarintsev became the head of the new Bolshevik Soviet, this Soviet was declared as the only power in Tsarskoye Selo. 15 January. The commission, as a part of Tsarskoye Selo Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies, was organized which registered all dwellers appartments with furnishings and then this commission distributed appartments among the workers families. The Palace Hospital, casualty ward of the Red Cross, private pharmacy of Deringer were nationalized. 23 February. V.I. Lenin, the chairman of the Council of People's Commissars, ordered "to transfer officially the Tsarskoye Selo radio station to the new power…, that our radiogram was transmitted urgently and with absolute guarantee" in connection with the necessity of the communication with the Soviet delegation for the peace agreement with Germany . 3 March. The Tsarskoye Selo organizaton of RSDWP(b), despite the opposition of Trotskysts, passed the Lenin peace resolution "The Gemany peace conditions are unacceptable for the Russian Republic but taking into account the all-country tiredness and the necessity to arrange the disbalanced economy, the Tsarskoye Selo Soviet decided that the Council of People's Commissars reached the right decision about the peace agreement". 13 April. The first train arrived to Tsarskoye Selo from Petrograd with children-orphans for the "Model Health-Improving Children Colony" organized on the basis of the Tsarskoye Selo nationalized mansions according to the initiative of People's Commiassariat of Education; People's Commissar A.V. Lunacharsky regarded that this colony was the laboratory for the education of the future builders of communist society. Meetings and debates on attracting the teachers to work in the new schools were held in the Manege building in Sadovaya Street (it was renamed Komsomolskaya Street). Here, commissars A.V. Lunacharky and A.M. Kollontai made speeches devoted to the propaganda of ideas about the separation of religion from the state, general literacy, great duty of teachers before working people. The intelligentsia of Tsarskoye Selo protested against these ideas but gradually teachers began to come into schools. In 1918 in spring, 180 primary schools worked in the Tsarskoye Selo uyezd and 20 children colonies worked in 1919. 9 June. The Catherine Palace was opened as a museum. On the first day, 244 men visited the museum. The architect V.I. Yakovlev was appointed as the first head of the museum. 15 July. The museum was opened on the basis of the palace of Princess Palei. At first Princess Olga Valeryanovna was a guide, the description of the museum collection was made by E.F. Gollerbach. 18 July the poet Vladimir Palei, a son of Princess Palei and Grand Duke Pavel Aleksandrovich, was executed near Alapayevsk. 23 July. The Uyezd Committee of VKP(b) (All-Union Communist Party, Bolshevik) and its newspaper "The Tsarskoye Selo Truth" were organized at the 2nd Tsarskoye Selo uyezg conference. October. The Tsarskoye Selo commission for the protection of culture heritage was organized. Art historians and artists F.G. Bernstam, S.M. Korovin, E.F. Gollerbach, G.K. Lukomsky, M.I. Roslavlev were included in this commission and G.K. Lukomsky was the head of the commission. A.N. Benois, P.N. Neradovsky, D.A. Schmidt were invited as experts. 7 November. Soviet of Commissars of the Union of Communes of the North region published decree about the renaming of Tsarskoye Selo "... Henceforth former Tsarskoye Selo threw aside its disgraceful name and become Detskoye (Children) Selo named after Uritsky". Buildings of Cossacks Barracks were transferred to the Petrograd Agronomic Institute. The building of the Martial Chamber was accommodated for the student club in 1920. V.V. Mayakovsky, N.K. Cherkasov, S.A. Esenin, citizens of Tsarskoye Selo A.N. Tolstoy, V.Y. Shishkov, L.R. Kogan and others performed here at the hall having 400 seats during the 1920s - the 1930s.
Persons Benois Alexander Nikolaevich Cherkasov Nikolay Konstantinovich Esenin Sergey Alexandrovich Hollerbach Erich Fedorovich Kogan Lev Rudolfovich Kollontay Alexandra Mikhailovna Lenin (real name Ulyanov) Vladimir Ilyich Lukomsky Georgy Kreskentievich Lunacharsky Anatoly Vasilievich Mayakovsky Vladimir Vladimirovich Neradovsky Peter Nikolaevich Paley Olga Valentinovna, Duchess Paley, Vladimir Pavlovich Schmidt D.A. Shishkov Alexander Semenovich Tatarintsev, Nikolay Ivanovich Tolstoy Alexey Nikolaevich Yakovlev Vsevolod Ivanovich
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