Boris Ravensky: biography, creative and pedagogical activity

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

Childhood

Boris Ravensky was born in Leningrad on June 17, 1914, although the year of birth of 1912 is indicated on the grave, and in some official documents of this remarkable director. Whence such confusion about the date of birth of a talented director came is unknown.

Father Boris Ivanovich was born in a small village Yushkovo Kursk province. He had excellent musical data. Therefore he was given to the choir of one of the monasteries, when he was ten years old. There he was noticed, and an inspector 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 the young man's voice was already formed, he was invited to a theatrical choir, where he performed with Fedor Shalyapin. About Boris Ivanovich's father they said that he could easily extinguish all the candles that were in the same room with his strong solo singing.

At the same time, Ivan Vasilievich sang in the choir of the Eliseev Church, where he also met Alexandra Epiphailovna Solovieva, who later became his wife. The mother of a well-known theater director treated the ancient Count's family, but tried to conceal this under the Soviet government.

Boris Ravensky was always amazed at how educated his mother was, since she not only managed to raise five children, but she read well and fluently, and also spoke beautifully in French. It is known that Alexandra Epipailovna 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 in the Great Patriotic War.

Education

After the Civil War, Boris Ravensky moved with his family from Leningrad to his native village Yushkovo, which is located in the Kursk region. But there was no school in the village, so Boris had to study in Stary Oskol. His seven-year education, Boris Ravensky graduates in 1929. Even in his school years, he began to get involved in theater, but on the stage he never went out, but only helped organize the performances. This is his passion for the theater was noted in the diploma of seven-year education. The document stated that he has a propensity for dramatic art.

Work in the theater

In the late 1920s, the future famous director Boris Ravensky returned to Leningrad, but could not enter the theater institute, failing the exams. But he immediately goes to the theater of working youth, which was headed by M. Sokolsky.

The young man made two more attempts to enter the institute, the third of which was crowned with success. Boris Ivanovich becomes a student of the acting faculty.

But for a long time at this institute and at this faculty, Boris Ravensky did not linger and was transferred to the Institute of Performing Arts, having chosen a directing faculty.

Theatrical life

In the first year of the Institute of Stage Arts Boris Ivanovich becomes an assistant to his teacher in 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 went to practice at the Moscow Art Theater and in 1941 he was entrusted to become director of an opera studio, which was organized at the theater.

In 1949 he moved to the capital's theater of satire. It was there that he released his new production of "The Wedding with a Dowry," which not only collected complete rooms, but was also filmed on film in 1953. The flowering of the theatrical creativity of Boris Ravensky falls on the period from 1940 to 1950. A talented director was put a lot of performances that both fans and critics like.

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

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

Teaching Activities

In 1977 he was invited to GITIS. Boris Ivanovich for a long time engaged in teaching activities. Soon, at the Department of Dramatic Directing, he was awarded the title of Professor.

Among those who were pupils of Boris Ivanovich, many famous and talented actors. This is Valery Belyakovich, Valery Rybakov and many others.

Music in the performances of the Ravenky

Great attention in his performances, Boris Ravensky gave music. A well-known and talented director believed that it is impossible to achieve the effect of perception from the viewer, if not to use music. After all, only it can unite actors, musicians, and viewers into a single whole.

According to Boris Ivanovich himself, music helps to convey to the viewer everything that the director wanted to say with his performance, is a kind of a link between the plot of the play and the viewer. Therefore, in 1978, he left his native walls, where he staged many performances, and moves to the Bolshoi Theater, where he embodies his dream and unites the dramatic and musical principle in his productions.

On the stage of this theater, Boris Ivanovich takes staging operas. One of the most popular is the work of Rimsky-Korsakov "The Snow Maiden." And in 1980 he realized one more dream and created his own theater. He wanted to gather all his students to stage a performance where the dramatic and musical could connect. But on January 10, 1980, without realizing his plans, Boris Ivanovich died.

Boris Ravensky and his women

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

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

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