Mikhail Semyonovich Shchepkin
Mikhail Shchepkin ( Russian Михаил Семёнович Щепкин ;. Scientific transliteration Mikhail Semenovic Ščepkin ; born November 6 . Jul / 17th November 1788 greg. In Krasnoje, Kursk ; † August 11 jul. / 23. August 1863 greg. In Yalta ) was a famous Russian actor and is considered one of the founders of the Russian theater school. He was born the son of a simple serf. Shchepkin was the first to play Famusov in Griboyedov's comedy Verstand macht Leiden or: Woe der Verstand (Gore ot uma, 1831). The renowned Shchepkin Theater School in Moscow is named after him today and was honored by the Russian Post for its 200th anniversary by issuing a stamp on November 25, 2009. This stamp shows a look at the school building.
The writer , poet , playwright and translator Tatiana Lvovna Shchepkina-Kupernik was a great-granddaughter of Shchepkin.
literature
- Laurence Senelick: Serf Actor: The Life and Art of Mikhail Shchepkin. Westport, Conn .: Greenwood P. 1984; ISBN 0313224943
Web links
- Article about Shchepkin in the encyclopedia «Кругосвет» (Russian)
- Article about Shchepkin in Gumanitarny slovar ( Memento from April 18, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) (Russian)
- Article on Shchepkin in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (Russian)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Shchepkin, Mikhail Semjonowitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Щепкин, Михаил Семёнович (Russian spelling) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 17, 1788 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Krasnoye, Kursk Governorate |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 23, 1863 |
| Place of death | Yalta |