Pavel Markov - Soviet director, theater critic. Pavel Aleksandrovich, during his lifetime, was recognized as a legendary personality, an outstanding domestic theater historian.
Biography
Early period
Pavel Aleksandrovich Markov was born in a family of hereditary nobles on March 10, 1897 in Tula. His ancestors participated in the Battle of Kulikovo, and one of the distant relatives stood at the origins of the creation of the Union of the Russian People.
Pasha grew up a modest, intelligent and inquisitive boy. Early began to become interested in literature, fine art.
In 1912, Alexander Pavlovich and his wife Alexandra Arsenyevna decided to move to Moscow. The bustling municipality did not scare young Pasha. He quickly got used to the new city. Moscow streets inspired him in any weather.
Pavel entered the historical and philological faculty of Moscow University. Already in the first year I became one of the best students. In 1921, Markov Jr. received a diploma of higher education.
Career
Since 1919, Pavel Markov successfully acted as a critic, reviewer. In 1920 he was enrolled in a satire studio. After 3 years, he was invited to teach at the Moscow Art Theater's director's and teaching studio.
Since 1939, Pavel Alexandrovich taught at GITIS. Since 1943 he was a professor, a member of the board, and editor-in-chief of the five-volume encyclopedia of the Theater. Books are in demand to this day. Art critics often turn to them, calling editions immortal classics.
From 1925 to 1949 he was responsible for the literary part of the Moscow Art Academic Theater. During this period, the institutions' repertoire began to feature more actively the works of Soviet drama. This doubled the number of fans of theatrical art in old Moscow.
In 1944, Pavel Markov was appointed head of the art department of the Moscow Academic Musical Theater named after V.I. Nemirovich-Danchenko, and later the artistic director of the institution.
From 1955 to 1962, Pavel Markov worked as a director of the Moscow Art Theater.
For his labor activity, Pavel Alexandrovich staged over a dozen performances. Many of them have won special recognition from the audience.
Popular productions:
- "Mozart and Salieri",
- "Koschei the Deathless",
- "Poet's Love"
- "A family",
- Suvorov
- "Spring Love",
- Northern Dawns
- Port Arthur
- "Lullaby sold,"
- The Golden Carriage,
- "The Brothers Karamazov."
