Alexander Zagarov
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Born |
Alexander Leonidovich von Fessing Александр Леонидович фон Фессинг 17 January 1877 Yelisavetgrad, Russian Empire |
Died |
12 November 1941 64) Saratov, Soviet Union | (aged
Occupation | stage actor, theatre director, reader in drama |
Alexander Leonidovich von Fessing (Russian: Александр Леонидович фон Фессинг, 17 January 1877 - 12 November 1941) was a Yelisavetgrad-born Russian and Ukrainian, Soviet actor and theatre director, better known under his stage name Zagarov (Загаров).
A Moscow Philharmonic Drama School graduate (where he studied under Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko), Zagarov joined the Moscow Art Theatre (where his father was an administrator)[note 1] in 1898 and stayed with it (with breaks) until 1906.[1] His best-known roles here included Kleshch (The Lower Depths), Sorin (The Seagull), Publius and Pindarus (Julius Caesar). All the while he worked in the Yaroslavl theatre (where he debuted as a director in 1901), was actively involved with Meyerhold's New Drama and (since 1901) read drama at the Philharmonic Drama School.[2]
In 1909-1910 he headed the Korsh Theatre; then moved to Alexandrinka to act and direct (1910-1916). After 1917 Zagarov for ten years worked in Ukraine where he headed the city theatres in Kiev and Kharkiv, and co-founded the Donetsk Music and Drama Theatre. Later he worked in Penza, Vladivostok, Khabarovsk, Kovrov and Saratov.[2] In 1940 Zagarov was honoured with the title Meritorious Practitioner of Arts of RSFSR. "The master of high culture, tireless experimentor and a proponent of the Stanislavski and Nemirovich-Danchenko's ideas," was how the Theatre Encyclopedia described him.[2]
Notes
- ↑ Leonid Alexandrovich von Fessing (22.4.1847 — 11.2.1920), a retired army colonel, served as a MAT senior inspector from the Stanislavski's troupe's inception 1898 till his death. A somewhat eccentric figure, fond of order and trimness, and certainly a comic character in some of the MAT actor's memoirs, he was much admired for his kindness by everybody, including Stanislavski himself.
References
- ↑ Леонид Александрович Фон Фессинг at the Moscow Art Theatre official site
- 1 2 3 Alexander Zagarov at the Soviet Theatre Encyclopedia