Vladimir Ivanovich Nemirovich-Danchenko (December 11(23), 1858 - April 25, 1943,
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) was a
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born
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n theatre director,
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, pedagogue, and
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, who co-founded the
Moscow Art TheatreThe Moscow Art Theatre is a theatre company in Moscow that the seminal Russian theatre practitioner Constantin Stanislavski, together with the playwright and director Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, founded in 1897. It was conceived as a venue for naturalistic theatre, in contrast to the melodramas...
with his famous colleague,
Konstantin StanislavskiKonstantin Sergeyevich Stanislavski , was a Russian actor and theatre director. His innovative contribution to modern European and American realistic acting has remained at the core of mainstream western performance training for much of the last century...
, in 1898.
In 1919 he established the Musical Theatre of the Moscow Art Theatre, which was reformed into the Nemirovich-Danchenko Musical Theatre in 1926. By that time, the relations between him and Stanislavski had become so strained that they didn't talk for years, as recounted in
Mikhail BulgakovMikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov was a Russian contemporary novelist and playwright active in the first half of the 20th century...
's
Theatrical Novel.
Vladimir Ivanovich Nemirovich-Danchenko (December 11(23), 1858 - April 25, 1943,
MoscowMoscow is the capital and the largest city of Russia. It is also the largest metropolitan area in Europe, and ranks among the largest urban areas in the world. Moscow is a major political, economic, cultural, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the world, a...
) was a
GeorgianGeorgia Georgia Georgia is a country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Situated at the juncture of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded to the west by the Black Sea, to the north by Russia, to the south by Turkey and Armenia, and to the east by Azerbaijan...
born
RussiaRussia , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia . It is a semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
n theatre director,
writerA writer is anyone who creates a written work, though the word usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, as well as those who have written in many different forms.-Profession:...
, pedagogue, and
playwrightA playwright, also known as a dramatist, is a person who writes dramatic literature or drama. These works are usually written to be performed in front of a live audience by actors...
, who co-founded the
Moscow Art TheatreThe Moscow Art Theatre is a theatre company in Moscow that the seminal Russian theatre practitioner Constantin Stanislavski, together with the playwright and director Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, founded in 1897. It was conceived as a venue for naturalistic theatre, in contrast to the melodramas...
with his famous colleague,
Konstantin StanislavskiKonstantin Sergeyevich Stanislavski , was a Russian actor and theatre director. His innovative contribution to modern European and American realistic acting has remained at the core of mainstream western performance training for much of the last century...
, in 1898.
In 1919 he established the Musical Theatre of the Moscow Art Theatre, which was reformed into the Nemirovich-Danchenko Musical Theatre in 1926. By that time, the relations between him and Stanislavski had become so strained that they didn't talk for years, as recounted in
Mikhail BulgakovMikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov was a Russian contemporary novelist and playwright active in the first half of the 20th century...
's
Theatrical Novel. After Stanislavski's withdrawal from the theatre, Nemirovich-Danchenko staged an acclaimed version of
Anna KareninaAnna Karenina is a novel by the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, published in serial installments from 1873 to 1877 in the periodical The Russian Messenger...
(1937) with
Alla TarasovaAlla Konstantinovna Tarasova was a leading actress of Constantin Stanislavski's Moscow Art Theatre from the late 1920s onward.A title role in Anna Karenina was her most resounding success...
in the title role. In 1943 Nemirovich-Danchenko established the Moscow Art Theatre School, which continues to thrive to this day.
Nemirovich-Danchenko was one of the very first recipients of the title of
People's Artist of the USSRPeople's Artist of the USSR, also sometimes translated as National Artist of the USSR, was an honorary title granted to citizens of the Soviet Union.- Nomenclature and significance :...
in 1936. Later, he was awarded the
USSR State PrizeThe USSR State Prize was the Soviet Union's state honour. It was established on September 9 1966. After the breakup of the Soviet Union the prize was followed up by the State Prize of the Russian Federation....
(1942, 1943),
Order of LeninThe Order of Lenin , named after the leader of the Russian October Revolution, was the highest decoration bestowed by the Soviet Union...
, and Order of the Red Banner of Labor. His descendants continue to work in the theatre he founded.
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