Nemirovich-Danchenko Vladimir

Nemirovich-Danchenko Vladimir (1858–1943), Russian stage director, outstanding figure of Russian theater world, ped- agogue, writer and playwright. People’s Artist of the USSR (1936), Laureate of the State Prize of the USSR (1942, 1943). He was born to the family of a military serviceman in the village of Shemokmedi of Ozurgeti Region, Georgia. He spent his green years in Tbilisi, where he studied at the Tbilisi classical school for the nobility. From his yearly years he was carried away with stage. In the school he participated in amateur performances. After graduating from the classical school, he left for Moscow and in 1876 – 79 he studied at the Physical-Mathematical Faculty of Moscow University. He wrote stories, novels and plays. His plays were staged at the Moscow Maly Theater and the Petersburg Alexander Theater, as well as other theaters. In 1898, together with K. Stanislavskiy, he founded the Moscow Academic Art Theater (МХАТ). Along with K. Stanislavsky, he staged the following plays in the Academic Art Theater: Seagull (1898), UncleVanya (1899), Three Sisters (1901), Cherry Orchard (1904) by A. Chekhov and At the Bottom by M. Gorky (1902). Among the plays, which were independently produced by V. Nemirovich-Danchenko, the following should be mentioned: Lonely People by G. Hauptman (1899), W. Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar (1903), stage adaptation of F. Dostoevsky’s novel The Brothers Karamazov and the stage productions based on L. Tolstoy’s novels Easter Sunday (1930) and Ana Karenina (1937). He headed the Moscow Academic Art Theater till his death. 

V. Nemirovich-Danchenko died in Moscow. He was buried at the Novodevichy cemetery.