Zinovy Yakovlevich was born on July 29, 1926 in Tomsk. Poor and difficult childhood left an indelible imprint on his whole life. Small, weak, kartovy – always was an outcast of society and could never stand up for himself. The boy found solace in bitter resentment only in the game with dolls. He wandered the streets of the city, read billboards, looked at windows. His vocation was theater, it was to him he devoted all the years of his life. Zinovy Korogodsky became a great Russian theater director,
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Zinovy Yakovlevich was born on July 29, 1926 in Tomsk. Poor and difficult childhood left an indelible imprint on his whole life. Small, weak, kartovy – always was an outcast of society and could never stand up for himself. The boy found solace in bitter resentment only in the game with dolls. He wandered the streets of the city, read billboards, looked at windows. His vocation was theater, it was to him he devoted all the years of his life. Zinovy Korogodsky became a great Russian theater director, who is remembered and loved today.
In 1950, Zinovy graduated from the Leningrad Theatre Institute. Later he worked as a director at the Academic Bolshoi Drama Theater named after M. Gorky and the Kaliningrad Drama Theater. Since 1962 he was the artistic director of the Leningrad Youth Theatre.
During his lifetime, Korogodsky directed more than a hundred performances. The most famous of them: "Colleagues" V. Aksenov, "The Cat Who Walked by Himself" R. Kipling, "The Ballad of the Glorious Bilbo Beggins" J. Tolkien, "The Master" M. Gorky, "Hamlet" and "The Comedy of Errors" V. Shakespeare. Zinovy himself composed and staged such performances as: “Our Circus”, “Our Chukovsky”, “Ours, Only Ours”, “Potashki”, “Chorovod”, “Open Lesson”. Many of them are familiar to viewers of England, France, Poland, Bulgaria, Japan, Yugoslavia.
In 1991, Korogodsky created the Theater of Generations, and a year later he founded the Department of Directing at the St. Petersburg Humanitarian University of Trade Unions. He is also the author of the books “Director and Actor”, “First Year”. Beginning," "First Year. Continuation", "Rehearsal, rehearsal, rehearsal", "Study and school", and others.
Theatre, childhood and pedagogy are the main interests of Zinovy Yakovlevich. He was a master of direction, without which he could not. He was constantly drawn to new knowledge. He always remained the same as in childhood: infantile and curious, existing in his small world.
Zinovy Korogodsky died on May 22, 2004. And in St. Petersburg, theater festivals dedicated to the great director are held today, the Golden Grain Theatre Award is awarded in his name, and the Theatre of Generations continues its work. /