Sergey Vasilyevich Chesnokov (Russian: Сергей
Ð'Ð°Ñ Ð¸Ð»ÑŒÐµÐ²Ð¸Ñ‡ Ð§ÐµÑ Ð½Ð¾ÐºÐ¾Ð²; 19 October 1820, in Moscow,
Imperial Russia â€" 18 February 1878, in Moscow, Imperial Russia) was
a Russian stage actor better known under his stage name, Sergey
Shumsky.A Shchepkin School graduate, Sergey Chesnokov made his stage
debut as early as 1830, in the Nikolai Khmelnitsky's vaudeville Actors
Among Themselves, playing a character called Shumsky. The dramatist
Fyodor Kokoshkin, who was the Imperial Theatres's Moscow department
director at the time, praised the boy's performance and suggested that
he should keep this surname to himself, as a stage name.While still a
student, Shumsky started to perform at the Maly Theatre where his
appearance as Dobchinsky in Gogol's Revizor was noticed and lauded by
Vissarion Belinsky, who wrote: "Shumsky, as Dobchinsky is brilliant...
This air of good-natured provincial idiocy which he is apparently so
good at assuming, cannot be praised enough." In 1841, after the
graduation, Shumsky was invited to the Maly Theatre where for the next
six years he played more than sixty parts, notably in plays by Dmitry
Lensky, Nikolai Gogol and Alexander Griboyedov. After a three-year
stint at the Odessa Theatre he returned to the Maly to stay there for
the rest of his life. During his forty years career as a stage actor
Shumsky was engaged in more than 500 parts, some of them in Alexander
Ostrovsky's plays, including Vikhorev (Stay in Your Own Sled, 1853),
Zhadov (A Profitable Position, 1863); Obroshenov (Jokers, 1864);
Krutitsky (Enough Stupidity in Every Wise Man, 1868), Dobrotvorsky
(The Poor Bride, 1853), Schastlivtsev (The Forest, 1871), Margaritov
(The Belated Love, 1873), Groznov (Truth Is Good, But Happiness'
Better, 1876).
Ð'Ð°Ñ Ð¸Ð»ÑŒÐµÐ²Ð¸Ñ‡ Ð§ÐµÑ Ð½Ð¾ÐºÐ¾Ð²; 19 October 1820, in Moscow,
Imperial Russia â€" 18 February 1878, in Moscow, Imperial Russia) was
a Russian stage actor better known under his stage name, Sergey
Shumsky.A Shchepkin School graduate, Sergey Chesnokov made his stage
debut as early as 1830, in the Nikolai Khmelnitsky's vaudeville Actors
Among Themselves, playing a character called Shumsky. The dramatist
Fyodor Kokoshkin, who was the Imperial Theatres's Moscow department
director at the time, praised the boy's performance and suggested that
he should keep this surname to himself, as a stage name.While still a
student, Shumsky started to perform at the Maly Theatre where his
appearance as Dobchinsky in Gogol's Revizor was noticed and lauded by
Vissarion Belinsky, who wrote: "Shumsky, as Dobchinsky is brilliant...
This air of good-natured provincial idiocy which he is apparently so
good at assuming, cannot be praised enough." In 1841, after the
graduation, Shumsky was invited to the Maly Theatre where for the next
six years he played more than sixty parts, notably in plays by Dmitry
Lensky, Nikolai Gogol and Alexander Griboyedov. After a three-year
stint at the Odessa Theatre he returned to the Maly to stay there for
the rest of his life. During his forty years career as a stage actor
Shumsky was engaged in more than 500 parts, some of them in Alexander
Ostrovsky's plays, including Vikhorev (Stay in Your Own Sled, 1853),
Zhadov (A Profitable Position, 1863); Obroshenov (Jokers, 1864);
Krutitsky (Enough Stupidity in Every Wise Man, 1868), Dobrotvorsky
(The Poor Bride, 1853), Schastlivtsev (The Forest, 1871), Margaritov
(The Belated Love, 1873), Groznov (Truth Is Good, But Happiness'
Better, 1876).
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