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Georgiy Kugushev
Георгий Кугушев
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14 March 1896 - 11 May 1971
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George Ivanovich Kugushev (2/14.3.1896 St. Petersburg - 11.5.1971. Director actor People's Artist of the RSFSR (1960) Laureate of the Stalin (State USSR) Prize (1946 Sp. "Tobacco Captain" V. V. Shcherbachev Prime Minister in 1944). From a noble princely family. In 1907-1917 he studied in St. Petersburg in the Page Corps (he did not receive a diploma due to revolutionary events). Deciding to devote himself to the acting profession leaves home, he graduates from the theater studio of S. Naidenov in
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George Ivanovich Kugushev (2/14.3.1896 St. Petersburg - 11.5.1971. Director actor People's Artist of the RSFSR (1960) Laureate of the Stalin (State USSR) Prize (1946 Sp. "Tobacco Captain" V. V. Shcherbachev Prime Minister in 1944). From a noble princely family. In 1907-1917 he studied in St. Petersburg in the Page Corps (he did not receive a diploma due to revolutionary events). Deciding to devote himself to the acting profession leaves home, he graduates from the theater studio of S. Naidenov in Yalta (1917-19gg.) There, simultaneously with his studies, begins (1917-18gg.) creative activity Pomrezhem and an auxiliary actor in the entreprise of S. Novikov. Trying himself on the dramatic stage in the operetta ballet. 1919 - theater actor under the direction of L. A. Fenin in Yalta. In 1920 - in the theater of muses. Comedies under the direction of D. F. Dzhust in Simferopol in 1921-22 - roams in campaigns with the army of S. N. Budyonny (actor and director of the dramatic) and in 1922 - an actor of the theater of the Political Administration of the North Caucasus Military District of Rostov-on-Don. In 1923-27 he worked in musical comedy theaters in Kharkov Odessa (the first production of the operetta of 1924) in Rostov-on-Don and other cities. Since 1927 he has been an actor at the Music Comedy Theatre of the Directorate of Spectacular Enterprises in Kiev and since 1928 he has been touring the cities of Ukraine and the RSFSR. From 1935 to the end of 1937 he was the chief director of the Sverdlovsk State Theatre of Musical Comedy. Learning about the possibility of repression as a native of the nobles leaves the city. In 1938 - chief director of the Ivanovo Theatre of Muses. He was arrested as a socially dangerous element for several months in prison and subjected to administrative expulsion for 5 years to Kazakhstan. In 1939 in Pavloder - actor of the Philharmonic in 1940 - actor and director of the Petropavlovsk Regional Drama Theatre. In 1943, at the request of the Sverdlovsk Theatre of Muses. He was allowed to return to Sverdlovsk. (The conviction was removed by the Special Conference of the NKVD of the USSR on August 4, 1945). From 1943 to 1961, when he retired, he was the chief director of the Sverdlovsk Theatre. The activity of the bright creative personality of a person of high culture was of great importance for the development of the collective. Involved in the theater talented conductors of directors of artists from Moscow Leningrad and major cultural centers of the periphery. Theoretician of the genre, who affirmed his great artistic possibilities and rejected the attitude as a “second-rate” founder during the Second World War of the line of patriotic heroic and romantic performance. Active creator of a new modern repertoire. They brought together such composites. And drama. as V. V. Shcherbachev Y. S. Milutin O. B. Feltsman A. P. Ryabov I. N. Kovner N. A. Aduev and others.
A fighter with acting cliches and the tastelessness of the old operetta. He rallied and brought up a unique cast in the number and variety of talents. Performances: “Tobacco Captain” V. V. Shcherbachev (1944), “Bronze Bust” (1945) and “Akulina” (1948) by I. N. Kovner “Maiden Trouble” Y. S. Milyutin (1945), “Perikola” (1935) and “Beautiful Helena” (1949) by J. Offenbach “Lights” G. Svirizhov (1953). The initiator of attracting the forces of local authors – the operetta “Mark Beregovik” by K. A. Katsman (based on P. P. Bazhov) put by him in 1955 was awarded the Laureate Diploma of 1 degree at Alls. Festival of Drama and Music Theatres of Ensembles and Choirs in 1957. .
He acted in films (the film Sverdl. film studio "Silva" 1944, where K. played the role of Ferry).