Vasily Karatygin Biography

The very first Chatsky - Vasily Karatygin already one majestic figure of Karatygin and his expressive face made a huge impression on the audience. Karatygin began with classicism. Following the laws of the genre, he tried to emphasize in the heroes any one feature. For example, Othello's jealousy, Hamlet has a desire for a throne. But time passed, and classic trends were replaced by romantic ones.

The artist’s art has gained features of naturalness, psychological depths. Karatygin begins to play the heroes of dramas and tragedies. The acting talent of Karatygin was not innate - he worked hard every day on himself, studied the subject, took up various roles and worked out to the smallest detail. Belinsky said that the game of Karatygin is a triumph of stage art.

And when the St. Petersburg Alexandrinsky Theater opened, Karatygin became a leading tragic in it. The life of each of us as a play: both in the theater and in life there are people who play the main and secondary roles. And now let's get acquainted with people who played the main roles in the life of Vasily Andreyevich Karatygin. Shakhovskaya and Katenin while still a young man, Karatygin fell into the hands of Alexander Aleksandrovich Shakhovsky, a playwright and a theater figure.

Pushkin wrote about him in Evgenia Onegin: "There, Khokhi's noisy swarm of his comedies took off his Shakhovskaya." It was he who laid the foundations of the classic manner of playing on stage in Karatygin. The next mentor of Karatygin was Pavel Alexandrovich Katenin - poet, playwright, critic, translator, theater figure.

He introduced Karatygin with Greek, Latin classics, with French literature. She is rightfully considered the best dramatic actress of the Pushkin era. The acting couple lived in the soul of 26 years until the death of Vasily Andreevich. Pushkin with Pushkin Karatygin was familiar even before his exile to Mikhailovskoye. Already from there the poet wrote: “I rejoice at the successes of Karatygin and congratulations to him Alexander Sergeyevich was entered into the Karatygin house.

He even read in his walls of the manuscript "Boris Godunov"! Karatygin wanted to fulfill something “from Pushkin”, but it did not work out-censorship did not miss at first the production of Godunov, and then the “stingy knight”. Among Pushkin’s personal books there is the play “Two for four, or jealousy and joke” translated by Karatygin. The book says: "Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin as a sign of true respect from the translator." In his piggy bank there are more than 30 translated plays!

Shakespeare, Dumas, Schiller many translations are performed today. Vasily Andreevich Karatygin died on March 25 in St. Petersburg. He remained in the history of the theater and in our memory as a great Russian tragic. Daria Grebenyuk.