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SHOSTAKOVICH Dmitry Dmitrievich (1906, St. Petersburg. - 1975), composer, pianist, pedagogue, People's Artist of the USSR (1954), Hero of Socialist Labor (1966). Honorary Doctor of Oxford (1958) and of many other foreign universities and academies ... | | SHOSTAKOVICH Dmitry Dmitrievich (1906, St. Petersburg. - 1975), composer, pianist, pedagogue, People's Artist of the USSR (1954), Hero of Socialist Labor (1966). Honorary Doctor of Oxford (1958) and of many other foreign universities and academies. Graduated from Petrograd Conservatory as a pianist (studied under L.V. Nikolaev, 1923) and a composer (studied under M.O. Steinberg, 1925). In 1923-25 he worked as a ballroom pianist at the Svetlaya Lenta Cinema (today Barricade, 15 Nevsky Prospect), Crystal Palace (72 Nevsky Prospect), Splendid Palace (today Cinema House, 12 Karavannaya Street), and Piccadilly (today Avrora, 60 Nevsky Prospect). In 1929-31 he composed music for plays staged at the Theatre for Working Youth. In 1929 Shostakovich began collaborating with the Music-Hall, and directors from Lenfilm, such as G.M. Kozintsev, L.Z. Trauberg, L.O. Arnstam, and S. I. Yutkevich. He wrote music for the films Alone, Golden Mountains, Passenger, and the Maxim Trilogy. Later he returned to the fruitful association with Kozintsev, composing music for his films Hamlet (1964) and King Lear (1971). The 1930s became the age of Shostakovich's creative maturity, when several universally recognised masterpieces were created and premiered in Leningrad: his operas The Nose and Lady Macbeth (1930 and 1934, Maly Opera Theatre, conductor S.A. Samosud); and ballets The Golden Age and The Bolt (1930 and 1931, Mariinsky Theatre). After his ballet The Limpid Stream (1935, Maly Opera Theatre), certain attempts were made to suppress Shostakovich's success with the article-manifestos Chaos Instead of Music and Ballet Falsity were published. But the stain of being called a formalist didn't ruin Shostakovich's creative life. The first performance of his Symphony No. 5 (1936) was cancelled, but in 1938 Leningrad saw the triumphal opening night of his Symphony No. 5 under the baton of E.A. Mravinsky (from then until Symphony No. 12 (1961) Shostakovich conducted all premiers and established his own standards of performance). Symphony No. 7, also known as The Leningrad Symphony, was first conducted by K.I. Eliasberg in St. Petersburg during the Leningrad Siege on 9 August 1942, the day of the German Army's intended celebration at having captured the city. The radio broadcast of the concert attracted world-wide attention to the tragedy of Leningrad. In 1937-41 and in 1962-65 Shostakovich taught at the Conservatory, of which he had been a professor since 1939. Among his students were acclaimed Petersburg composers G.I. Ustvolskaya, V.A. Uspensky, and B. I. Tishchenko. Among Shostakovich's honours are the Stalin Prize (1941, 1942, 1946, 1950, 1952), the Lenin Prize (1958), the State Prize of the USSR (1968), and the State Prize of Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1974). Shostakovich was born at 2 Podolskaya Street (memorial plaque installed). In 1914-34 he lived at 9 Marata Street, and in 1937-41 at 29/37 Bolshaya Pushkarskaya Street (memorial plaque installed; monument by sculptors A.N. Chernitsky and S.А. Chernitsky, 1997). On 1 October 1941, Shostakovich was evacuated from Leningrad, after which he lived in Moscow, but he frequently visited St. Petersburg and during the summer used to work in the House of Composers' Creativity (Repino). A street on Vyborgskaya Side was named after Shostakovich; his name was also given to the Petersburg Philharmonic, and to secondary school № 235 (1996). References: Хентова С. М. Шостакович в Петрограде - Ленинграде. Л., 1981; Ее же. Шостакович: Жизнь и творчество: Моногр.: В 2 т. 2-е изд., доп. М., 1996. A. L. Porfiryeva.
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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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