Died founder Taganka – Russian Newspaper

When leaving the personality of this magnitude, at first it seems that there is nothing new about them to say. About Lyubimov been said and written many reviews, books, studies, and yet it seems that the main book about it – in the future time.

There is nothing surprising in the fact that Yuri Lyubimov was born in the year of the terrible Russian Revolution and not just anywhere, but in Yaroslavl, where his famous predecessor – the creator of the first professional Russian theater Fyodor Volkov. Like his fellow countryman, he became the founder of a new “religion” – Taganka, called an island of freedom in a free country. He lived several lives, which affects the amplitude of the dizzying contemporaries.

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Freestyle gypsy blood mother, peasant leaven of freedom and father, orphaned early, when parents suddenly planted during exercise – first in the studio of the Moscow Art Theatre-2, then a meeting with Meyerhold during his rehearsals, “Boris Godunov” … We do not know how born director. But the fact remains that having worked for almost 20 years in the Theater. Vakhtangov actor playing Cyril Izvekova and Romeo, Cyrano and Oleg Mishka, starring in the film Ivan Pyreva “Kuban Cossacks”, Lyubimov suddenly turned into a film director and innovator, creator of the legendary play “The Good Person of Szechwan”, which became a landmark in the Soviet theater, the creator opposition, almost dissident Taganka.

Who knew the limits of freedom in the country a total ban before Lyubimov did not check their own combat sorties? He presided at the Taganka most essential mission era: the telling of a lone man confronting the regime. So simple and so clearly it appears now, when you remember a tragic and resounding voice trembling Zinaida Slava, who played Good Person of Szechwan, Hamlet – Vysotsky, who read Pasternak so that I wanted to howl with hopeless longing. Sad and lonely Dalvin Shcherbakov-Master and his desperate girlfriend Margarita – Nina Shatsky, luxury beauty, flying on a swing directly over the heads of the audience.

Do not describe reality, using the principle of credibility, but to create it – that was the principle his chosen theater. And what kind of credibility could be a question for the resident Kafkaesque country, the country of the absurd, in which love to create their hooligan Taganka? Because of his Muse became every year more tragic. The poet in his theater is always died, it always killed. Khlopusha-Vysotsky shouting hoarse voice Esenina Esenina it and not Pugacheva killed in his play, and it’s him shed tears of his audience. How then shed tears on Pushkin and Mayakovsky, Kogan and Bagritsky Akhmatova and Pasternak.

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Always struggling with society, has always played the role of someone who is opposed to the main directions in art and the official ideology, Lyubimov has managed in his last performances at the Taganka make independent gesture denying any fashion and need to “time”, he spoke not of society, but of thinking about the metaphysics of death.

On the eve of his 95th anniversary, expelled from the theater he created, the newly victorious destiny, Lyubimov wrote an epic mural “The Possessed” and threw a bridge to the tradition of leaving the actor’s theater.

Returning to the stage, where he played more than half a century ago, he decorate her deliberately “old-fashioned”. On these “Demons” is often remembered performances Vakhtangov Theatre 50-70 years of the last century than the revolutionary period of the young Taganka.

All the signs of the ancient theater actors virtuoso resurrected before our eyes, recalling the times not only Mansurova and Strauch, Gritsenko and Orochko, but even Asenkovoy and Duras. Lyubimov, it seems all around by the nose, promising to find something similar to the tragic shooting of the Norwegian islands, with riot Tagansko artists. His true alter ego in Dostoevsky’s novel, he suddenly “chose” Stepan Trofimovich Verkhovenskii with his preaching and beauty of faith. Lyubimovskyyo Stepan Verhovensky left the show as a stranger – with a cart laden with books. Lyubimov sent Russia into a new journey – to find harmony, wisdom and faith. Now he went there.