Russia - USSR medal 100 years since the death of M.S. Shchepkin, 1963
Shkurko, Salykov 308. Diameter 55mm. 91.34g. Tompac. Mintage 325 pc. UNC. ММД. I.M. Rukavishnikov.
"100 лет со дня смерти М.С.Щепкина"
Mikhail Semyonovich Shchepkin (1788–1863) was the greatest Russian actor of the nineteenth century and the founder of the realist school of acting in Russia.
Born a serf on 17 November 1788 (6 November, Old Style) in the village of Krasnoe in Kursk province, Shchepkin began performing as a child in amateur productions on his master’s estate. He joined a professional provincial company in Kursk in 1805 and gradually developed a new, more natural style of acting based on psychological truth, careful observation of everyday life, and understatement rather than the declamatory manner then dominant on the stage.
Despite growing fame, he remained a serf until 1821–1822, when admirers, including prominent nobles, raised the money to purchase his freedom. In 1823 he joined the company of the Imperial Theatres in Moscow and from 1824 became the leading actor of the newly opened Maly Theatre, which came to be known as the “House of Shchepkin.” For the next forty years he dominated the Moscow stage.
His most celebrated roles included Famusov in Alexander Griboedov’s Woe from Wit and the Mayor in Nikolai Gogol’s The Government Inspector. He was admired by Pushkin, Gogol, Herzen, and Turgenev, and he mentored a new generation of realistic actors. His approach to truthful, character-driven performance strongly influenced the later system of Konstantin Stanislavski.
Shchepkin died in Yalta on 23 August 1863 (11 August, Old Style) at the age of 74. He is remembered as the father of Russian theatrical realism and one of the most important figures in the history of the Russian stage.
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