|
Nikolay Batalov
Николай Баталов
Life Time
6 December 1899 - 10 November 1937
|
Fate gave this actor a short creative life - he died at the age of 37 from incurable tuberculosis at the beginning of the last century. But his acting legacy is enormous.
Little is known about his private life. A native of the peasant environment, Nikolai Batalov was born in 1899, in 1910 he entered the Alexander III Trading School, and in 1915 he entered the School of Dramatic Art. Since 1916 he was an actor of the second studio of the Moscow Art Theatre. In 1921, Batalov married an actress of
more
Fate gave this actor a short creative life - he died at the age of 37 from incurable tuberculosis at the beginning of the last century. But his acting legacy is enormous.
Little is known about his private life. A native of the peasant environment, Nikolai Batalov was born in 1899, in 1910 he entered the Alexander III Trading School, and in 1915 he entered the School of Dramatic Art. Since 1916 he was an actor of the second studio of the Moscow Art Theatre. In 1921, Batalov married an actress of the same theater.
Olga Androvskaya . And two years later he fell ill with tuberculosis, which was the cause of his death in November 1937.
Batalov was buried in the Novodevichy cemetery. He is the founder of a whole creative dynasty, whose representatives are well known to Soviet moviegoers: his brother was an actor and director.
Alexey Batalov son-in-law - People's Artist of the RSFSR
In the days of Batalov, cinema was mute and the actor required a special ability to express feelings and experiences with facial expressions, eyes, gestures. Using his natural data, Batalov brilliantly played in his first film "Aelita" The role of the Red Army soldier Gusev, ready to make even an interplanetary revolution. Then there was the role of Pavel Vlasov in the picture of V. Pudovkin
"Mother" . Even the modern audience knows his role (the head of the labor commune Sergeev) in the first Soviet sound cinema.
. He was a passionate man, and this trait of his character was not only on stage. Batalov took part in the "Sovietization of the Moscow Art Theatre", introduced the works of party authors into the repertoire of the theater, and spoke about the need to separate old-timers from the stage - actors.
At the same time, Nikolai Batalov dreamed of playing Pushkin, in the archives there are photos where the actor is captured in the appropriate makeup, he even tried to write a script for a film dedicated to Alexander Sergeyevich. However, this dream did not come true.
In total, Batalov played ten roles in the film. He was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor, and he was awarded the title of Honored Artist of the RSFSR. /