Biography of George Menglet

Menglet Georgy Pavlovich is a famous actor of the Soviet and Russian period. Laureate of the K. Prize and Youth, the famous Soviet artist Georgy Menglet, unlike his contemporaries, always believed that his true purpose is the theater, and not the world of cinema at all, where his colleagues were torn. The legendary artist left a significant mark in Soviet theatrical art and was remembered by the whole era of spectators.

The future famous artist was born in the city of Voronezh on September 17. His father was a soldier Pavel Vladimirovich, and his mother is a simple housewife Ekaterina Mikhailovna. A rare, according to contemporaries, the surname of the artist, became a heritage from the ancestor along the father’s line. After the Patriotic War of the year was over, the military captain from France with a rare name Menglet, rare for the Russian area, decided not to return to his homeland.

He accepted Orthodoxy and as the Russell said then. The well -known Soviet actor, according to the Russian information indicated in his biography, is Russian by nationality, however, without interference with the “European” side, there were no here. George Menglet in his youth in childhood, the future star of the theater was fond of football, art and photography. The passion for his first has survived throughout his life, Menglet until the last days was an avid fan of his favorite game.

The actor’s daughter, after his death, once told reporters: “Dad has always been a devoted phantom of football. He collected clippings from newspapers about teams and players and knew everything about them. He could be woken up at night and ask about the scored goal and will definitely tell the date of the player and rivals of the team. ” The first who noticed acting in the future acting in the future was a school teacher of language and literature named Alexander Ivanovna.

It was in one of the lessons, when the students read the work of the Russian classic Alexander Griboedov called “Woe from Wit”. It is thanks to this literary masterpiece that his first roles appeared in the creative biography of George Pavlovich. Simple reading by roles in the lesson, after a few months it turned into a full -fledged performance on the stage, where Menglet reincarnated in Chatsky.

This production was well accepted by the audience, and at the Voronezh school, a theater was organized at the number of eleven, which began to bear the name of Alexander Sergeyevich Griboedov. The first colleagues in the stage with whom George plunged into the theater world his classmates. Schoolchildren staged performances not only within the walls of the educational institution, but also beyond.

So they were invited with productions to rural clubs, cinemas of the city and folk houses. Even theater artists came to see young and talented actors. The mother of one of the classmates of the future star was a niece of Konstantin Stanislavsky, known already in those days. The woman wrote to a relative a letter of recommendation in which she spoke about the talented boy, but Menglet did not use it.

The young man wanted to succeed in life without outside help, and therefore he passed the entrance exams in the year and entered the theater university, finding himself on the course of Andrei Petrovsky. In his youth, the artist many times went on the stage of the State Historical and Revolutionary Theater. Later, over the whole year, he was an internship at the Moscow Satire Theater.

These stage became a real dream for a talented actor. A huge impact on the young actor and the formation of his professional vision was played by the People's Artist of the Soviet Union Alexei Dikik. The future theater star first learned about the director’s work in the school years, when, together with peers, having arrived in the Voronezh delegation to open the Dynamo stadium.

It was then that he first saw the work done by the director. The production struck the boy so much that having received at twenty -two years the opportunity to get into the studio to the famous director, he, without hesitation, gave his consent. Soon, the beginning artist again received the main role. This time it was a performance called "Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk district." This time, he had to embody a negative character on the stage, but Grigory Pavlovich also coped with this task.

Spectators, colleagues, and even theatrical critics remained very impressed and spoke with enthusiasm about the work of a young artist. After some time, the workshop was closed, and its leader Alexei Wild was appointed artistic director at the Big Drama Theater. The director called almost all the participants of his former troupe with him. Among them was, of course, Menglet.

Alexei Denisovich was arrested in the year. George Menglet decides to continue the work of his teacher, realizing many creative ideas. Thanks to this, in one of the remote republics of the Soviet Union appears the "Wild Theater". In the same year, Menglet finally leaves the troupe of the metropolitan BDT and moves to Stalinabad, this city will later be renamed Dushanbe. Here, along with like -minded people, a talented young man opens the Russian Drama Theater.The theatrical stages in the youth, George Menglet, was awarded the title of Honored Artist of the Tajik Soviet Republic.

On theatrical stages of the theater organized by him, the actor played more than twenty roles. Then he took the place of the artistic director of the first front -line theater in Tajikistan. The troupe of this theater traveled to military units located on the front line and staged performances in front of the soldiers, thereby raising their morale. The concert, which the troupe put, was called "Battle, friends!

At one of these speeches, Konstantin Rokossovsky was present, at that time, who held the post of Marshal of the Soviet Union. Later, when Georgy Pavlovich writes his book “Actor is the acting person”, he will tell about this meeting in it: “It’s good that the scene is not intended for shooting,” Konstantin Konstantinovich said after the speech. But this fun and optimistic program really ignites the spirit.

” The audience in Tajikistan warmly accepted the artist. In the year, for his role in the play “Without guilt, he was awarded the title of People's Artist of the country. In an adapted play by Alexander Ostrovsky, Menglet played Neconomova.

The front -line performances of the troupe of Georgy Pavlovich were over in the year. The actor returned to the capital, where he entered the troupe of the Evgeny Vakhtangov Theater. It is worth noting that at that time the theater was led by Ruben Simonov. I did not have to work here for a long time, since after a few months everything changed one call.

The long -standing dream of George Pavlovich came true, and he was invited to work in the troupe of the satire theater. On the stage of this theater, Menglet entered until the last days of his life, participating in more than seventy productions. The audience and critics were especially filled with his roles in such productions as “dear friend”, where he played a careerist named Georges Durua, “The Marriage of Figaro” in the image of the judge of Briduason, as well as the image of Colonel Fredambe in the play “Intervention”.

They may be familiar.