Biography of Sergey Obraztsov

Bibliography, he played dolls until the last day of his life. In the hands of the masters, limp toys came to life, sang, danced and performed on stage. The audience idolized his ideas. With his theater, Soviet actor Sergei Obraztsov traveled almost the whole world, meeting enthusiastic applause everywhere. Childhood and youth of Samples Sergey Vladimirovich was born on June 22, July 2, according to the new style of the year in the capital of Russia.

Members of his family of Russian nationality were hereditary nobles. Father Vladimir Nikolaevich worked as an engineer of railways and was a scientist. He was part of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union. A man for 2 years in a row became the laureate of the Stalin Prize in the years. Sergey’s mother was a teacher. The future actor also had a younger brother Boris, working as a zoologist.

Despite the fact that the parents of the young man dreamed of receiving a son of higher education, Sergei consciously and independently made a choice in favor of the school. After that, he entered the highest artistic and theater workshop at the picturesque faculty. The direction of activity, which samples wanted to engage in a professional basis, he chose in his young years.

The reason was the first doll purchased by his mother, putting on his hand. The guy was so fascinated by the idea of ​​"living" toys that he began to independently make them together with a friend. Sergey’s activity was very attracted to peers and adults - those who wanted to purchase dolls were weekly. The guy became a puppeteer not from an easy life - Sergey’s career began in difficult post -revolutionary years, when the new state was just starting to be built.

Samples subsequently successfully graduated from the highest art theater workshop, where he was a student of V. Favorsky and A. Creativity in the musical studio man performed up to a year. His first performance with theatrical dolls took place 10 years earlier. During this time, samples managed to gain popularity as a pop artist who staged performances in the comedy style of "romances with dolls." The play "Extraordinary concert" of the Puppet Theater Sergei Obraztsov in addition, he composed and independently implemented several productions in the Vaudeville genre on the stage.

In his parodies, Sergei denounced the vulgarity and philistine philistinism characteristic of some famous pop artists. In mid -September, the director was offered to stand at the head of the State Central Puppet Theater in the House of Artistic Education of Children. For 4 years, the theater was a vagabond - instead of a full -fledged scene, the puppeteers used a portable screen, which was put where they had to.

Later, Obraztsov was offered the building of a realistic theater, which is located on Mayakovsky Square in Moscow. The Central Puppet Theater played a huge role in the creative biography of a man, he led the institution until his death. Sergei Vladimirovich made a considerable contribution to the development of technique and theory, as well as to determine the genre features of the puppet theater.

He became the inventor of the new doll system, before his eyes, more than one generation of talented artists - directors, actors, artists, sceneders, who still hold supreme positions in Russian and world theaters, grew up.

In the performances of Obraztsov, the actor-Kuklovod appears not at all a faceless figure, which sets the toy in motion, but a real creator of visual art. Using the application of effective analysis and the method of physical fraud, Sergei Vladimirovich proves that the artist of artistic images is a difficult process of reproduction by an artist as in the drama theater.

The work of Obraztsov as a director is highlighted in a deep analysis, the search for non -standard solutions in the installation of decorations, a screen and an anatomy of puppet characters. Among other things, Sergey Vladimirovich was a talented writer. In his books “My Profession” and “Actor with a Doll”, which became unique documents of the era, the man spoke about the system of acting, as well as directorial work.

In addition, he retained a rich theoretical and literary heritage in his other works, such as “according to the steps of memory”, “about what I saw, learned and understood during two trips to London”, “The Relay of the Arts”, “My Kunstkamera” and others. Any of these books can be found in the theater museum. The performances, directed by Sergei Obraztsov, forever became part of the Golden Fund of domestic and world stage art.

Having received the love of the audience and the support of critics, they still continue to appear on the posters of modern theaters. Personal life of Sergei Obraztsov was as rich as creative. His first wife was the teacher Sofya Semenovna, who worked in the Hot orphanage, which is the Preobrazhenskaya Zastava. It was there that the acquaintance of the spouses took place, where the summer samples got a job as a teacher of drawing.

In the winter of the year, the couple had a son named Alexei. After 3 years, a tragedy occurred in their family - during the birth of Natalia’s daughter, the woman died.The second wife of the director was actress Olga Shaganova, with whom he made a marriage in the year. They were united by love for dogs - it was the pet’s pet who was used by the gray dog ​​muz in the play "Uncle Tom's hut." The children did not appear in marriage, but Olga Alexandrovna tried in every possible way to replace her mother to the children of Sergey.

The death of Sergei Obraztsov was not a disease and an accident. In life, he easily coped with any difficulties, but could not overcome one - old age. The director was gone on May 8, he was 90 years old. Until the death of the samples, he got to work on foot. In the year, in honor of the Soviet director and artist, a bronze monument was erected near the Central Academic Puppet Theater.

The basis was a photo of a man and a porcelain figure, created in the middle of the 20th century by a sculptor Ilya Elephant.