Volkov biography Theater

The theater did not leave for temporary tour, from now on he changed his place of stay. From the shores of the Volga, the Yaroslavls left to the banks of the Neva. Why were the Yaroslavls, and not “hunting comedians” from Moscow or St. Petersburg, were invited to the capital's city of Petrov to play comedies and tragedies? There are several reasons. The Container of the Vyaroslavl Theater is a profession, and the content of the theater is its own “business”, and not fun, not a whim.

Not one -time - from case to case - production, but an extensive, replenished repertoire. The real creative and financial leader is Fedor Volkov, who has multilateral talents. Permanent composition of the troupe. All this was the reason for the call of the Yaroslavls to the capital by the capture of the Empress Elizabeth Petrovna. The Empress ordered the Yaroslavl to train in the court gentry cadet corps -a accumulated higher educational institution of that time.

The rest could go to Yaroslavl again or arrange their lives at will in the capital's St. Petersburg. Gavrila Volkov was returned to Yaroslavl, but then he left for his brothers and later successfully played in the theater.

Yakov Shumsky studied on his own, looking at his comrades, whom he did not leave. And he became an outstanding comic actor of the Russian theater, a friend of Fonvizin himself. Just like Dmitrevsky, for whom Fonvizin specially wrote the role of Starodum in the comedy “Undergrowth”. At the birth of the Russian theater, a close interaction of the provincial and metropolitan theater culture arose, this has become an important factor in the entire cultural and historical process.

It was the Yaroslavls, having received education in St. Petersburg, that compiled the core of the first state Russian professional national public theater, established in the year. The name of Fedor Volkov is associated with the formation of the Russian acting national school. Having become a successor to Volkov, Yaroslavl Ivan Dmitrevsky first founded a Russian theater school in St.

Petersburg and raised several generations of actors, developing in his students a combination of “art with nature. Volkov, the features of the Russian School of Theater Game were laid. They reflected in the “inspiration” of Jacob Shumsky, “unusual simplicity” by Vasily Pomerantsev, “sensitivity”, “naturalness” of the “fiery” Alexei Yakovlev, “animation and ease” Katerina Semenova, in the “lightning from the eyes” of Pavel Mochalov, “lyricism” by Mikhail Shchepkin.

The tradition of the Russian acting school, laid down by Fedor Volkov, still affirms itself in the world.