Boris Ravenskikh: biography, creative and pedagogical activity

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Ravenskikh Boris Ivanovich - the most wonderful director and theater actor, teacher. He has a rich creative biography and a large number of state prizes and awards.

Childhood

Boris Ravenskikh was born in Leningrad on June 17, 1914, although the birth year of 1912 is indicated on the grave and in some official documents of this wonderful director.

Boris Ivanovich's father was born in the small village of Yushkovo, Kursk province. He had excellent musical abilities. Therefore, he was given to the choir of one of the monasteries when he was ten years old. They noticed him there, and the auditor, who came from Leningrad, took the teenager with him to the city to sing in the choir of the Holy Trinity Alexander Nevsky Lavra.

When does a young man's voice alreadyformed, he was invited to the theater choir, where he performed with Fyodor Chaliapin. It was said about Boris Ivanovich's father that he could easily extinguish all the candles that were in the same room with his strong solo singing.

At the same time, Ivan Vasilyevich sang in the choir of the Eliseevskaya Church, where he met Alexandra Epifailovna Solovieva, who later became his wife. The mother of the famous theater director belonged to an ancient count family, but tried to hide it under the Soviet regime.

Boris Ravenskikh was always surprised at how educated his mother was, as she not only managed to raise five children, but read well and fluently, and also spoke excellent French. It is known that Alexandra Epifailovna was a graduate of the Institute of Noble Maidens.

Boris was the youngest child in the family. But the wedding of the parents took place after his birth. The mother of a famous theater director and actor died during the siege of Leningrad during the Great Patriotic War.

Education

Boris Ravenskikh after the civil war moves with his family from Leningrad to his native village of Yushkovo, which is located in the Kursk region. But there was no school in the village, so Boris had to study in Stary Oskol. Boris Ravenskikh completed his seven-year education in 1929. Even in his school years, he became interested in theater, but he never went on stage himself, but only helped organize performances. This passion for the theater was also noted in the diploma of a seven-year education. The document stated thathe has a penchant for the dramatic.

Working in the theater

In the late 1920s, the future famous director Boris Ravenskikh returned to Leningrad, but he could not enter the theater institute, having failed the exams. But he immediately enters the theater of working youth, headed by M. Sokolsky.

The young man made two more attempts to go to college, the third of which was successful. Boris Ivanovich becomes a student of the acting department.

But Boris Ravenskikh did not stay long at this institute and at this faculty and transferred to the Institute of Performing Arts, choosing the directing department.

Theatrical life

In his first year at the Institute of Performing Arts, Boris Ivanovich became an assistant to his teacher at the Moscow theater. There he worked until 1938, until it was closed.

In the same year, he moved to the "Modern Theater", where he was able to independently perform the first production. In 1940 he was sent to practice at the Moscow Art Theater and already in 1941 he was entrusted with becoming the director of the opera studio, which was organized at the theater.

In 1949, he moved to the capital's theater of satire. It was there that his new production of "Wedding with a Dowry" was released, which not only collected full houses, but was also shot on film in 1953. The heyday of theatrical creativity of Boris Ravensky falls on the period from 1940 to 1950. A talented directormany performances have been staged that appeal to both audiences and critics.

In 1960, Boris Ravenskikh, whose photo is presented in this article, was appointed chief director of the famous Moscow Drama Theater named after Alexander Pushkin. A fruitful period begins for a talented director, when he puts on a large number of performances. Such success and creative upsurge accompanied Boris Ivanovich for ten years.

In 1970, a new appointment - director of the Maly Theater. Leaving the drama theater, he brought with him talented actors to a new place, so the staging of performances on the new stage remains at a high professional level.

Teaching activities

In 1977 he was invited to GITIS. Boris Ivanovich has been teaching for a long time. Soon, at the Department of Dramatic Directing, he was awarded the title of professor.

Among those who were students of Boris Ivanovich, there are many famous and talented actors. These are Valery Belyakovich, Valery Rybakov and many others.

Music in Ravenki performances

Boris Ravenskikh paid great attention to music in his performances. The famous and talented director believed that it was impossible to achieve the effect of perception from the viewer if music was not used. After all, only she can unite actors, musicians, and spectators into a single whole.

According to Boris Ivanovich himself, music helps to convey to the viewer everything that I wanted to say with my performancethe director is a kind of link between the plot of the performance and the audience. Therefore, already in 1978, he left his native walls, where he staged many performances, and moved to the Bolshoi Theater, where he realized his dream and combined the dramatic and musical principles in his productions.

On the stage of this theater, Boris Ivanovich is staging operas. One of the most popular is Rimsky-Korsakov's The Snow Maiden. And in 1980 he realizes another dream and creates his own theater. He wanted to gather all his students to put on a performance where the dramatic and the musical could be combined. But on January 10, 1980, without realizing his plans, Boris Ivanovich died.

Boris Ravenskikh and his women

There were many women in the life of a famous and talented director. It is known that there were only three official marriages. Boris Ravenskikh, whose personal life has always been public, never talked about his first wife. Therefore, there is no information about her.

The second wife of this talented person was Lilia Gritsenko, who acted in films and played in the theater. Lilia Olimpiyevna is also known as an excellent opera singer.

The third wife of Boris Ravenskikh is Galina Kiryushina, a popular theater actress. She gave birth to two daughters in this marriage: Alexandra and Galina. The eldest daughter followed in the footsteps of her father, becoming not only an actress, but also a director. The famous and popular film director also has two grandchildren: Dmitry Polonsky,who is a race car driver, and Alina.