Dmitry Zhuravlev is a Soviet and Russian actor, director, teacher-professor and reader. The performer was awarded the Stalin Prize for artistic reading. Zhuravlev Honored Artist of the RFSFSR and People's Artist of the USSR.
Domestic artists and scientists are known to the whole world. Dmitry Nikolaevich Zhuravlev is one of the followers of the Russian school.
Improving talent
He was born in the Ukrainian village of Alekseevka in 1900, on October 11. The family had six children. The youngest was Dmitry.
When the young man turned twenty, he moved to Simferopol and began work at the Gorky Crimean Drama Theater. Talent in aspiring performer direction reviewed.
Dmitry was sent to Moscow for training. Simultaneously with his studies, the student took part in performances with the director Lyubimov-Lansky.
In 1924, the aspiring performer joined the auxiliary staff of the Third Studio of the Vakhtangov Theater, honed his skills, worked to improve his professionalism.
From 1928 Zhuravlev became the main artist until 1939. He played in Lensky's Provincial Debutante, Seifullina's Viriney, Romen's Party of Honest People, Lavrentiev's Razlome, Leonov's Badgers.
The actor considered this period of creativity the best. Interesting acquaintances with new people and experience in the theater became his main success. The renown of the famous reader began with the Vakhtangov Theater.
New facets
While still in the auxiliary team, the young artist continued his studies at the Shchukin Theater Institute. The combination of study and work was given to the performer perfectly. He achieved success in all directions.
Between theatrical performances, the artist tried his hand at the role of a reader. In 1928, performances in a new capacity became permanent.
Dmitry took part in various concerts, traveled to cities. He recited Pushkin, Blok, Mayakovsky, read the works of Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy.
In the repertoire of Dmitry Nikolaevich there were classics and foreign ones, he liked the works of Guy de Maupassant, Prosper Mérimée.
At first, rare reading turned from a hobby to a vocation. Zhuravlev not only recited, he crushed with reading. The audience was delighted.
The performer's lively oratorical talent was revealed after several outstanding performances by Zhuravlev. After meeting with Alexander Yakovlevich Zakushnyak, who became his idol, the artist stopped his performing career and switched to artistic reading.
Reading career
In 1930, Zhuravlev's debut personal performance took place at the House of Writers. The audience enjoyed the performer's voice and skill. Subsequently, he read to the public the poems of Yevtushenko, Bagritsky, Voznesensky.
From the beginning of his career as a reader, the actor became interested in the works of Pasternak and Akhmatova. A year later, the artist held a big solo concert in the Small Hall of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory.
In 1937 Zhuravlev took part in the First All-Union Competition of Readers. He took second place on it. By this time, the reader had already brilliantly played in the most famous performances based on the works of Bulgakov, Gozzi, Schiller, Shakespeare.
In 1937 the actor made his debut in big cinema in the film "Journey to Arzrum". He played the role of Pushkin.
From 1939 to 1986, Dmitry Nikolayevich worked as a consultant and director at the State Academy Philharmonic Society of the capital. He received the title of Honored Artist of the Federation in 1947. In 1949 he became a laureate of the Stalin Prize for outstanding reading skills.
In 1960 Zhuravlev was awarded the title of Honored and People's Artist of the Reader participated in the sixties in the work on the cartoons "How one man fed two generals", "Lefty", "Go there, I don't know where" and "The Legend of the Evil Giant", read the text behind the scenes and voiced the characters.
The artist took part in the creation of the films "Gooseberry", "Two Stories" and "The Ballad of Bering and His Friends" in the early seventies. In the film-play based on the work "Two Stories", the reader starred in the main role.
Family life
From 1959 to 1975 Zhuravlev was a teacher at the Studio School at the capital's art theater. He brought up many talented students. In 1971 the teacher became a professor.
The actor spent almost all the time in Moscow. He rarely left the house. Dmitry Zhuravlev became the author of several books. He wrote Conversations on Art and Life. Art. Meetings.
The collection of the State Radio contains more than one and a half hundred recordings of the performance of the famous reader of literary works. Zhuravlev became the host of the programs "Circle of Your Reading", "Sound Book".
There are records of his memoirs about friendship with Richter, Dorliak, Neuhaus called "Fate Sent Meetings." The actor managed to take place in his personal life.
While studying at the Shchukin Theater Institute, Dmitry Nikolaevich met and fell in love with a student, a future singer. The young people became husband and wife in 1935. Valentina Pavlovna devoted her life to her family, gave her husband daughters Maria and Natalia.
Subsequently, the youngest chose an artistic career. Natalya Dmitrievna became a teacher and Honored Artist of Russia.
Zhuravlev died on July 1, 1991. In memory of him in the capital's State Philharmonic, in the building of the Crimean Academic Russian Drama Theater named after M. Gorky, the State Academic Vakhtangov Theater, the artist's photographs are placed on the Honor Board. For outstanding creativity and performing skills, the actor was awarded a medal and two orders.
