Ravenskikh Boris Ivanovich - the finest director and theater actor, teacher. He has a rich creative biography and a large number of state prizes and awards.
Childhood
Boris Ravenskikh was born in Leningrad on the seventeenth of June 1914, although the birth year of 1912 is indicated on the grave, and in some official documents of this remarkable director. It is not known where such confusion about the date of birth of the talented director came from.
Boris Ivanovich's father was born in the small village of Yushkovo, Kursk province. He possessed excellent musical data. Therefore, he was given to the choir of one of the monasteries when he was ten years old. They noticed him there, and the 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 had already formed, he was invited to the theater choir, where he performed with Fedor Chaliapin. They said about Boris Ivanovich’s father 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 Eliseevskaya Church, where he met Alexandra Epifailovna Solovieva, who later became his wife. The mother of a famous theater director belonged to an ancient count family, but she tried to hide this under the Soviet regime.
Boris Ravenskikh was always amazed at how educated his mother was, as she not only managed to raise five children, but she read well and fluently, and she also spoke excellent French. It is known that Alexandra Epifailovna 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 of Yushkovo, which is located in the Kursk region. But there was no school in the village, so Boris had to study in Stary Oskol. Boris Ravenskikh graduated from his seven-year education in 1929. Back in school, he began to get involved in theater, but he never went on stage himself, but only helped to organize performances. This addiction to the theater was also noted in the diploma of seven-year education. The document indicated that he had a penchant for dramatic art.
Theater work
In the late 1920s, the future famous director Boris Ravensky returned to Leningrad, but could not enter the theater institute, failing exams. But he immediately enters the theater of working youth, whose leader was M. Sokolsky.
The young man made two more attempts to enter the institute, the third of which was successful. Boris Ivanovich becomes a student in the acting department.
But for a long time Boris Ravenskikh did not stay at this institute and at this faculty and transferred to the Institute of Performing Arts, choosing a directing faculty.
Theater life
In the first year of the Institute of Performing Arts, Boris Ivanovich becomes an assistant to his teacher in the Moscow theater. He worked there 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 was sent to practice at the Moscow Art Theater and already in 1941 he was entrusted with becoming the director of the opera studio, which was organized at the theater.
In 1949, he transferred to the capital's theater of satire. It was there that his new production, “The Wedding with the Dowry, ” came out, which not only gathered full halls, but was also shot on film in 1953. The heyday of theatrical creativity of Boris Ravensky falls on the period from 1940 to 1950. The talented director put on many performances that both spectators and critics like.
In 1960, Boris Ravenskikh, whose photo is presented in this article, was appointed chief director of the famous metropolitan drama theater named after Alexander Pushkin. For a talented director, a fruitful period begins, when he puts on a large number of performances. Such success and creative enthusiasm accompanied Boris Ivanovich for ten years.
In 1970, a new appointment - director of the Maly Theater. Leaving the drama theater, he brought with him to a new place and talented actors, so staging performances on a new stage remains at a high professional level.
Teaching activities
In 1977 he was invited to GITIS. Boris Ivanovich was engaged in teaching for a long time. Soon, at the Department of Dramatic Direction, he was awarded the title of professor.
Among those who were students of Boris Ivanovich, there are many famous and talented actors. This is Valery Belyakovich, Valery Rybakov and many others.
Music in the performances of Ravenki
Boris Ravenskikh paid much attention to music in his performances. The famous and talented director believed that it is impossible to achieve the effect of perception from the viewer if you do not use music. After all, only she can combine actors, musicians, and spectators 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 connecting link between the plot of the performance and the viewer. Therefore, already in 1978, he left his native walls, where he staged many plays, and transferred to the Bolshoi Theater, where he embodied his dream and combined the dramatic and musical principles in his productions.
On the stage of this theater, Boris Ivanovich is engaged in staging operas. One of the most popular is the work of Rimsky-Korsakov “The Snow Maiden”. And in 1980, he realizes another dream and creates his own theater. He wanted to gather all his students to stage a performance where the dramatic and musical could be combined. But on January 10, 1980, having failed to fulfill his plans, Boris Ivanovich died.
