Yuri Andreyevich Zhelyabuzhsky (Russian: Юрий Рндреевич
Ð–ÐµÐ»Ñ Ð±ÑƒÐ¶Ñ ÐºÐ¸Ð¹; 24 December [O.S. 12 December] 1888 â€" 24
October 1955) was a Russian and Soviet cinematographer, film director,
screenwriter and animator, film theorist and professor at VGIK.Yuri
Zhelyabuzhsky was born into a noble Russian family. His mother Maria
Fyodorovna Andreyeva (born Yurkovskaya) was a famous stage actress and
revolutionary; she also came from a theatrical family of Fyodor
Alexandrovich Fyodorov-Yurkovsky who served as the main director of
the Alexandrinsky Theatre and Maria Pavlovna Leleva, an actress of
mixed German-Estonian origin. Yuri's father Andrey Alekseyevich
Zhelyabuzhsky was an Active State Councillor who belonged to an old
noble family tree which originated in the 15th century and gave birth
to a number of prominent high-ranking officials and diplomats
throughout Russian history.After Andrey Zhelyabuzhsky left the family,
Maria Andreyeva became romantically involved with the major Bolshevik
writer Maxim Gorky. Their civil union lasted for over 15 years, and
Gorky officially adopted Yuri and his sister Ekaterina. They followed
him on his trip to Italy in 1906. A famous series of photos that shows
Vladimir Lenin playing chess with Gorky, Alexander Bogdanov and other
Bolsheviks in exile was made by Zhelyabuzhsky at their Capri residence
in April 1908.Between 1913 and 1916 he studied at the Petrograd Peter
the Great Polytechnic Institute, the shipbuilding faculty. Since 1915
Yuri had been working in cinema â€" first as a film stock developer,
then as a screenwriter for the Era company and other lesser-known
collectives. In 1917 he became a member of the Rus' Film Studio (known
as Mezrabpom-Rus and Mezhrabpomfilm during the Soviet days) where he
had worked as a cinematographer, film director and screenwriter up
until 1935.
Ð–ÐµÐ»Ñ Ð±ÑƒÐ¶Ñ ÐºÐ¸Ð¹; 24 December [O.S. 12 December] 1888 â€" 24
October 1955) was a Russian and Soviet cinematographer, film director,
screenwriter and animator, film theorist and professor at VGIK.Yuri
Zhelyabuzhsky was born into a noble Russian family. His mother Maria
Fyodorovna Andreyeva (born Yurkovskaya) was a famous stage actress and
revolutionary; she also came from a theatrical family of Fyodor
Alexandrovich Fyodorov-Yurkovsky who served as the main director of
the Alexandrinsky Theatre and Maria Pavlovna Leleva, an actress of
mixed German-Estonian origin. Yuri's father Andrey Alekseyevich
Zhelyabuzhsky was an Active State Councillor who belonged to an old
noble family tree which originated in the 15th century and gave birth
to a number of prominent high-ranking officials and diplomats
throughout Russian history.After Andrey Zhelyabuzhsky left the family,
Maria Andreyeva became romantically involved with the major Bolshevik
writer Maxim Gorky. Their civil union lasted for over 15 years, and
Gorky officially adopted Yuri and his sister Ekaterina. They followed
him on his trip to Italy in 1906. A famous series of photos that shows
Vladimir Lenin playing chess with Gorky, Alexander Bogdanov and other
Bolsheviks in exile was made by Zhelyabuzhsky at their Capri residence
in April 1908.Between 1913 and 1916 he studied at the Petrograd Peter
the Great Polytechnic Institute, the shipbuilding faculty. Since 1915
Yuri had been working in cinema â€" first as a film stock developer,
then as a screenwriter for the Era company and other lesser-known
collectives. In 1917 he became a member of the Rus' Film Studio (known
as Mezrabpom-Rus and Mezhrabpomfilm during the Soviet days) where he
had worked as a cinematographer, film director and screenwriter up
until 1935.
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