Ivan Vasilyevich (Comedy)

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Mikhail Bulgakov around 1935

Ivan Vasilievich ( Russian Иван Васильевич ) is a comedy by the Soviet writer Mikhail Bulgakov , which was composed in 1935/1936. After the dress rehearsal on May 13, 1936 in the Moscow Satirical Theater, the play was banned. In 1967, the below-mentioned book edition in Bulgakov's dramas and comedies was followed by performances at the Omsk Theater and the Moscow Theater of Cinema Actors . and 1968 in the Baku Samed Wurgun Theater

reality

In Moscow's Banny Street 10, years after the revolution : the engineer Timofejew, something like a Soviet Faust , only dreamed of it all. But one thing is true - this inventor is unsuccessfully working on a time machine in his Moscow cooperative rented apartment . His concept is very promising. Starting from the four-dimensional space-time continuum , he would like to make time leaps forwards and backwards up to three hundred years via the intermediate station of three-dimensional space .

And by the way, Schpak's friend, the filmmaker George Miloslawski, really broke into the apartment of his neighbor Schpak.

dream

Anyway, it works fine. In the first step, the time machine overcomes space; first clears away the wall to the neighboring apartment - at the moment when the thief Miloslawski enriches himself with Schpak's property. In the second step, Timofeev's invention leaps back in time three hundred years: Ivan the Terrible appears in the apartment building. The “anti-Soviet experiment” must be broken off. This is also the opinion of the authoritarian property manager Ivan Wassiljewitsch Bunscha. It does not work. The inventor cannot get to the off switch on his machine. Ivan Wassiljewitsch Bunscha had lost his nerve when the time machine was working at full speed. During the stress, the manager had removed and inserted the key on the off switch. A storm had broken out that had blown Bunscha away. After the storm, the manager holed up on the floor of the apartment building. When the tsar - in government business - disappears from Banny-Gasse 10 and is wanted by his bodyguards armed with battle axes in Banny-Gasse 10, the despot must be portrayed by Ivan Wassiljewitsch Bunscha, who dared to emerge from his hiding place. Since Bunscha looks vaguely similar to the sole ruler from the 16th century, Miloslawski, the man from the film industry, can plausibly dress him up as tsar. In addition, Ivan the Terrible and Bunscha both have the patronymic Vasilyevich. The martial bodyguard can actually be immobilized; kneels in front of the caretaker. Bunscha can rule without restriction in the apartment building. The notorious thief Miloslawski interferes in the late medieval spectacle; seizes two favorable opportunities at court - relieves the Swedish ambassador for a diamond-set medallion and the patriarch for the Panagia, set with a sapphire and two emeralds . Tsar Bunscha dances with Tsarina Marta Wassiljewna. Ivan the Terrible ends his trip through Moscow, appears in Banny-Gasse 10, interferes and Timofejev's time machine breaks. From the dream. Schpak approaches with a militiaman . Bunscha admits that he reigned as tsar and blames the engineer for all of the blame. Miloslawski tells himself that the company comes from a masked ball.

Stalin

In the Bulgakov encyclopedia, the reason for the above-mentioned performance ban in the Stalin era is stated: It could be possible that the portrayal of Bunscha's temporary rule as tsar suggests to the audience that anyone who is mediocre could actually be a dictator in the state fill in passable.

Movie

German-language editions

Output used:

  • Ivan Vasilyevich. Comedy in three acts. Translated from the Russian by Thomas Reschke . Pp. 289–334 in: Michail Bulgakow. Pieces. With an afterword by Ralf Schröder . Verlag Kultur und Progress, Berlin 1970. 432 pages (translation from: Bulgakow. Dramas and Comedies , Moscow 1965)

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annotation

  1. ↑ According to this, the time machine moved the house at 10 Banny Street in Moscow to the autumn of 1571. Ivan the Terrible was married to Marta Vasilyevna Sobakina from October 28th to November 13th of that year.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Russian ru: Театр сатиры (Москва)
  2. ↑ Russian ru: Омский академический театр драмы
  3. ↑ Russian ru: Государственный театр киноактёра
  4. ↑ Russian ru: Азербайджанский государственный русский драматический театр имени Самеда Вургуна
  5. ↑ Russian performances
  6. ↑ Schröder in the afterword of the edition used, p. 425, 17. Zvo
  7. ↑ Russian ru: Панагия - appendage with the image of Our Lady
  8. ↑ Notes in the Bulgakov encyclopedia bulgakov.ru (Russian, third from last paragraph)