Alfred Schnittke, "Revizskaya Tale". The performance of the Taganka Theater "Revizskaya Tale"

Revizskaya fairy tale is today one of the beautiful manuscript sources that help in carrying out genealogical research. And also this wonderful performance of the Moscow Theater on Taganka.

What is a revision tale?

These are the documents that were needed in order to take into account the number of people in the Russian Empire, for which an audit was carried out, which had a goal - the taxation of the population is capricious. Such documents were in the course of the 18-19 centuries. Revizskaya fairy tale is a list of the population of each province, with names, patronymics, surnames, ages of all residents. The audit is the same census of the population. In the countryside, the revisionist tales were village heads and villages, and in the cities representatives of the city government were engaged in it. In total for the existence of such documents, 10 audits were conducted. In the auditory tales inscribed the faces of both sexes - both men and women. But the summary tables included only men, women did not fit there. For example, the revision books of the Orenburg province let you know what people lived in this area from 1834 to 1919. How many yards, what estates lived, how many were women, men, children, old people. Revizsky tales Orenburg province are now stored in the funds of the state archive.

The form of recording the collected information changed three times. Persons entered in this document were called audit souls. Such documents also allow us now to know which populated areas belonged to this or that region. For example, the revisionist tales of Tambov province say that it included such villages as Olemenevo, Akselmeevo, Novoselki, Inina Sloboda; Village Zhdanaya, Nikolaevka, Forest flowers and so on.

And here is NV Gogol?

Everyone knows that Nikolai Vasilyevich has a work called "Dead Souls". So, it is based not on the imagination of the author, but on a real historical fact that took place during the carrying out of such audits, as mentioned above. In the intervals between the census conducted clarifications. That is, we can say that additional audits were carried out. They were called upon to establish the presence of all the souls inscribed in the fairy tale during the previous census. If for any reason a person was absent (died, and so on), then these data were recorded.

According to the rules, the clarification of the revision tales was already included in the subsequent census. The missing soul was considered available until the next revision, even if the person died. Thus, the state increased the collection of per capita tax. But for the unclean by the hand, thanks to this, excellent conditions were created for using this rule for their own purposes. It is the fact of such abuse that is reflected in the work of Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol "Dead Souls".

"Revizskaya Tale" of the Taganka Theater

"Revizskaya Tale" is a performance that was staged in the 70s of the 20th century by Yuri Lyubimov at the Taganka Theater, which he directed until the last days of his life and where he was the chief stage director. The composer Alfred Schnittke wrote the music for the performance, it is called "Gogol-suite". "Revizskaya Tale" of the Taganka Theater sets a goal - to reveal the inner world of Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol to the viewer, to show the drama of his soul. The main emphasis in the play is on plastic solutions. In the play, the words from the work "Dead Souls" sound: "Rus! What do you want from me? .. And why did everything that is in you turn to me the full expectations of the eyes? "Thus, the play breaks through the main motif of the fate of the very same NV Gogol, who asked the question that Means "to be a writer" in our country.

The production of the Revizskaya Skazka includes excerpts from various works by Nikolai Vasilyevich: Dead Souls, Overcoat, Notes of the Madman, The Inspector General, Portrait, Nose, Author's Confession, and even those Gogol texts , Which had never been pronounced from the stage before. In the play, all the means of stage expressiveness are used together, which are subordinated to the same meaning, the actors use a special manner of play, thanks to which the production meets the main idea of VE Meyerhold - you need to play not only the play itself, but "the whole author" in its entirety. The Taganka Theater in its own way presented the viewer with the plot of Dead Souls. "Revizskaya Tale" is a production that requires viewers to respond to the acuteness of the public sense. In the play, the characters are shown to be similar to monuments, than they reflect the image of the deadly immobility that was inherent in the surrounding NV. Gogol's life. Now the production of "Revizskaya Tale" was taken from the repertoire of the Taganka Theater.

Music for the play

"The collision of the sublime and the base in his writings, the use of the banal - all this, of course, influenced me to a great extent. A hat is a good mask of all devilry, a way to get into the soul. " So the composer Alfred Schnittke talked about the creativity of NV Gogol. "Revizskaya Tale" was not accidentally so full of music. Nikolai Vasilievich was a very musical man. He attached great importance to this art form. The writer knew the musical notation. According to the plots of his works, operas were created. Creation of A. Schnittke "Revizskaya Tale" is a production, music in which is an integral part, it plays an important role here, thanks to it the necessary space and time of action is created on the stage of the theater.

Storyline in music

Suite A. Schnittke, which sounds during the "Revizsky Tale", consists of eight parts:

1. "Overture".
2. "Childhood of Chichikov."
3. "Portrait".
4. "Overcoat".
5. Ferdinand VIII.
6. "Officials."
7. "Ball".
8. "Will".

Characters of the play

The main actor of the play "The Revizsky Tale" was himself Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol. The other heroes are the characters of the writer's works:

• Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov.
• Aksenti Ivanovich Poprishchin.
• Andrei Petrovich Chertkov.
• Akaki Akakievich Bashmachkin.
• The Spanish King Ferdinand VIII.
• An unnamed official is a balletoman whose body is at the department table, and the soul is at the theater.

Summary of the performance

After the overture sounded, a small sprout appeared before the audience, which grew and turned into a child's head. She wears a cap. The head was fed porridge from a spoon, she ate with great appetite and gradually became huge. Then a gentleman appeared from it, an average, or rather no. This is Chichikov. The background to what is happening on the stage are the words about a boy who knew how to save and save money. The further action is a fragment from the story "Portrait". Here is shown the Artist, who has lost fame. He falls into despair because of this, he loses the ability to create new worthy works of art, he has a desire to avenge this to the whole world and destroy all masterpieces. Now the play is transferred to the story "Overcoat". This wardrobe item here gets a different embodiment - it's not clothes, but a living woman - a friend, a wife that the protagonist loves. The next part of the play is a fragment of the story "Officials". There are a lot of them, they are all the same, nameless, they all have the same standing white collars and creaking feathers. A kind of endless anthill of human souls, some of them, perhaps, long dead already, is replaced by a ball scene. On the stage again the main character, he is surrounded by characters created by him, they laugh at him, make faces and make faces to him.

The author of the idea of the performance

Yuri Petrovich Lyubimov - actor, director, artistic director of the Taganka Theater and the creator of the play "Revizskaya Tale" - was born on September 30, 1917 in Yaroslavl. In 1922, he moved with his parents, elder brother and younger sister to Moscow. In 1934, Y. Lyubimov entered the school-studio with the Moscow Art Theater-2. In 1936 he was accepted to the school at the E. Vakhtangov Theater. After graduation, in 1941, Y. Lyubimov was drafted into the army, where he served in the Song and Dance Ensemble, organized in order to maintain the morale of the soldiers. After the war, Yury Lyubimov acted as an actor at the E. Vakhtangov Theater. In parallel with work in the theater, he starred in films. In 1959, Yuri Petrovich tried himself as a director. His staging was a resounding success, and he was invited to the place of head of the theater in Taganka.

Performers of roles

Remarkable actors were engaged in the production of "Revizskaya Tale". Gogol NV was talentedly played by the People's Artist of Russia Felix Antipov. The performance was played by actors, known to the general public for roles in films: Ivan Bortnik, Veniamin Smekhov, Boris Khmelnitsky, as well as other fine artists.