Bersenev Ivan Nikolayevich (Pavlishchev): Russian actor of theater and cinema

Bersenev Ivan Nikolayevich is an outstanding director and actor of the theater and cinema of the Soviet Union. It is about this remarkable person that the article will be discussed.

Childhood

Ivan Nikolaevich Pavlishchev was born in the capital in April 1889. As a child, the boy was transported to Ukraine. His father worked in Kiev as a manager in trade. When Ivan is seven years old, his father dies.

Hobbies and the beginning of the creative path

At a young age, as a schoolboy, Ivan became interested in theater and became a participant in the performances of the Lepkovsky drama school. Since the gymnasium was not allowed to play on stage, Pavlishchev had to abandon his father's surname and take the pseudonym Bersenev.

Ivan, after graduating from high school, enters the Kiev University, the faculty of jurisprudence, simultaneously plays in plays. Gradually, the desire for creativity is stronger, and in 1907 the young man leaves his studies at the university and enters the Solovtsov Theater in Kiev. Its leader is K. A. Mardzhanov, the meeting with which became the decisive event in the life of Ivan Nikolayevich Bersenev. Subsequently, Bersenev moves to Kote Mardzhanov for the theater of Odessa and plays in it, as well as in Yekaterinodar, Vinnitsa and other provincial towns in 1908-1909, mainly performing main roles (for example, Rode in Chekhov's play Three Sisters).

Activity in mature years

In 1911 Ivan Nikolayevich Bersenev entered the Moscow Art Theater. For the period of work until 1919, the actor played about twenty roles.

The hungry winter in Moscow in 1918-1919 prompts Berseneva to tour with the Moscow Art Theater troupe. While working in Kharkov, the troupe with Kachalov V. I. headed off from Moscow in connection with the Civil War, and the wanderings of the Kachalov group began first in the southern part of Russia, then abroad. Only in May the 22nd group returns to Moscow. In December of this year, Ivan Nikolayevich was invited by an actor and board member to the First Studio of the Moscow Art Theater, in 1924 Bersenev became assistant to M. Chekhov, director of the Second Studio of the Moscow Art Academic Theater, then deputy director, and finally the director and art director of the theater. Bersenev's director's work was first seen in 1925.

In the theater of the Moscow Patriarchate, Ivan Nikolaevich works for two years as an actor and director.

From 1938 to 1951, Bersenev was an invariable and irreplaceable head of the Lenkom Theater on Malaya Dmitrovka and a fine actor. With him, the head led a team of wonderful actors of the Moscow Art Theater, among them was Sofya Hyacintova.

Ivan Bersenev: personal life

Ivan Nikolaevich's wife, Sofiya Vladimirovna Hyacintova, was born in 1895 and died at the age of eighty-seven. Magnificent actress, theater director, in 1955 she was awarded the title People's Artist of the USSR.

Violet, Fialochka - that's the name of Sonia in the Art Theater. The talented, diligent and emotional girl quickly began to receive small roles. Around Sony were constantly spinning fans. The girl, taking their courtship, gave no special preference to anyone.

Hyacinth was lucky enough to work with Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko, Vakhtangov and Chekhov. Sophia becomes the leading actress of the Second Moscow Art Theater. Here, she finds her love - a talented actor, a wonderful director and just a handsome man Ivan Nikolaevich Bersenev. The marriage between them lasted thirty-five years. Ivan Nikolayevich gently and faithfully loved and idolized his wife, until he met Galina Sergeevna Ulanova.

Ulanova in the life of Bersenev

In 1949 Bersenev met a great ballerina Galina Ulanova, who was 21 years younger than him, they lived in a civil marriage. Bersenev was so in love that he left his formerly beloved Sofya Hyacintov and began to meet Ulanova in the Metropole, then moved to her house in Novoslobodskaya. I broke off relations with his lawful wife Ivan Nikolayevich hard, very much suffered from his own betrayal, but he could not resist the magnificent Ulanova. Galina's relationship with the famous director and actor lasted only two years. The novel was bright and impetuous.

Bersenev Ivan Nikolayevich died in 1951, and at the memorial service two loving beautiful women stood at the coffin: a wonderful actress and lawful wife, Sofya Vladimirovna, and a gorgeous ballerina and civil wife Galina Sergeyevna.

Characteristic of Bersenev

Spectacular appearance, beautiful, sonorous voice, incredible charm, artistry and organizational talent - qualities that Ivan Nikolayevich possessed. Bersenev looked sleek, self-assured and spoiled, accustomed to comfortable conditions. In magnificent costumes, snow-white shirts, with butterflies and an immovable cigar in the corner of his lips, Ivan Nikolaevich resembled an English lord. In fact, he was unpretentious and simple. A person by nature shy, insecure and timid, Bersenev always doubted whether he would cope with the next role, and brilliantly played it.

The whole restless life of Bersenev was connected with the necessity in the theater. The theater was its air, every performance - a holiday, a triumph. He remembered the thousands of his daily duties on the part of the leading person, about all the actors, their problems and their roles, the words of which constantly muttered. He was an artist of a bright personality, showing a sea of fantasy and witty decisions, full of creative ideas, endowed with a rich inner world.

Ivan Nikolayevich was harsh and unfair and sharp, but his passion, obsession and devotion to the theater overshadowed Bersenev's negative qualities.

"Sword of Mercy"

It is an attribute for ceremonies related to the coronation of monarchs in the UK. Historians suggest that the sword of mercy was the property of Edward the Confessor. Its peculiarity lies in the fact that the sword has a broken blade, so it is called shortened. In ancient times it was considered an honor to carry a sword before the king, which was an act of mercy. According to legend, the point of the sword was torn off by an angel to prevent an unjust killing. Also, the sword of mercy was used to initiate knights.

The film "Sword of Mercy" was filmed in 1918, its premiere took place in Kharkov in 1919, January 31. The film is a psychological drama of the film-making "Screen". The film was directed by Georgy Azagarov, screenwriter - Olga Blazhevich. Bersenev Ivan Nikolayevich is removed in the role of young beautiful Vojte, son of Count Stefan Tsykhovsky. Unfortunately, to this day the film has not survived.

Bersenev's contribution to theatrical art

With the arrival of a remarkable director and a fine actor, I. N. Bersenev, the theater in Malaya Dmitrovka became one of the leading theaters in the city of Moscow.

Theater them. Lenin's Komsomol raised beautiful actors in Russia and the Soviet Union, but when Ivan Nikolayevich left in the prime of his life and creative talent, he literally "orphaned". For many years different leaders have been replaced, but they have not left a special trace, memory and bright events and performances.

In the movie Bersenev acted unfairly, but his roles are leading, vivid and memorable.

A huge contribution was made by Ivan Nikolaevich Bersenev in the development of Soviet theater art, for which he was awarded numerous awards from the government.

Actors of Russia can be proud of the fact that they had such a wonderful teacher, a role model. Blessed memory of this wonderful man!