Yuri Petrovich Lyubimov (Russian: Ð®Ì Ñ€Ð¸Ð¹ ÐŸÐµÑ‚Ñ€Ð¾Ì Ð²Ð¸Ñ‡
Ð›ÑŽÐ±Ð¸Ì Ð¼Ð¾Ð²; 30 September [O.S. 17 September] 1917 â€" 5 October
2014) was a Soviet and Russian stage actor and director associated
with the internationally renowned Taganka Theatre, which he founded in
1964. He was one of the leading names in the Russian theatre
world.Lyubimov was born in Yaroslavl in 1917. His grandfather was a
kulak who fled to Moscow to escape arrest during the collectivisation.
Lyubimov's father, Pyotr Zakharovich, was a merchant, who worked for a
Scottish company, and his mother, Anna Alexandrovna, was a
half-Russian and half-Gypsy schoolteacher. They moved to Moscow in
1922, where both were arrested. Lyubimov studied at the Institute for
Energy in Moscow.He was a member of Mikhail Chekhov's Second Moscow
Art Theater from 1934 to 1936. During the 1930s, he also met Vsevolod
Meyerhold, the avant-garde director. Lyubimov worked in the Song and
Dance Ensemble of the NKVD, where he met and befriended Dmitri
Shostakovich, Nikolai Erdman and many others.After service in the Red
Army during World War II, Lyubimov joined the Vakhtangov Theatre
(founded by Yevgeny Vakhtangov). In 1953, he received the USSR State
Prize. Lyubimov started teaching in 1963 and formed the Taganka
Theatre the following year. His celebrated production of Bertold
Brecht's The Good Person of Setzuan with Anna Orochko's class at the
Schukin Theatre Institute earned him the artistic directorship of the
Taganka Theatre. With Meyerhold, Stanislavsky, Vakhtangov and Brecht
as his spiritual guides, Lyubimov eschewed Soviet drama for the more
imaginative worlds of poetry and narrative fiction, which he
dramatized, and the classics, which he broke apart, reconstituted and
presented from a pronounced critical perspective. Under Lyubimov, the
theatre rose to become the most popular in Moscow, with Vladimir
Vysotsky and Alla Demidova as the leading actors. In 1971
Shakespeare's Hamlet became one of Lyubimov's highly successful and
much acclaimed productions. In 1976 he was awarded by the BITEF First
Prize for Hamlet.
Ð›ÑŽÐ±Ð¸Ì Ð¼Ð¾Ð²; 30 September [O.S. 17 September] 1917 â€" 5 October
2014) was a Soviet and Russian stage actor and director associated
with the internationally renowned Taganka Theatre, which he founded in
1964. He was one of the leading names in the Russian theatre
world.Lyubimov was born in Yaroslavl in 1917. His grandfather was a
kulak who fled to Moscow to escape arrest during the collectivisation.
Lyubimov's father, Pyotr Zakharovich, was a merchant, who worked for a
Scottish company, and his mother, Anna Alexandrovna, was a
half-Russian and half-Gypsy schoolteacher. They moved to Moscow in
1922, where both were arrested. Lyubimov studied at the Institute for
Energy in Moscow.He was a member of Mikhail Chekhov's Second Moscow
Art Theater from 1934 to 1936. During the 1930s, he also met Vsevolod
Meyerhold, the avant-garde director. Lyubimov worked in the Song and
Dance Ensemble of the NKVD, where he met and befriended Dmitri
Shostakovich, Nikolai Erdman and many others.After service in the Red
Army during World War II, Lyubimov joined the Vakhtangov Theatre
(founded by Yevgeny Vakhtangov). In 1953, he received the USSR State
Prize. Lyubimov started teaching in 1963 and formed the Taganka
Theatre the following year. His celebrated production of Bertold
Brecht's The Good Person of Setzuan with Anna Orochko's class at the
Schukin Theatre Institute earned him the artistic directorship of the
Taganka Theatre. With Meyerhold, Stanislavsky, Vakhtangov and Brecht
as his spiritual guides, Lyubimov eschewed Soviet drama for the more
imaginative worlds of poetry and narrative fiction, which he
dramatized, and the classics, which he broke apart, reconstituted and
presented from a pronounced critical perspective. Under Lyubimov, the
theatre rose to become the most popular in Moscow, with Vladimir
Vysotsky and Alla Demidova as the leading actors. In 1971
Shakespeare's Hamlet became one of Lyubimov's highly successful and
much acclaimed productions. In 1976 he was awarded by the BITEF First
Prize for Hamlet.
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