Biography
Nikolai Petrovich Batalov - the Soviet actor of theater and cinema, starred in the main role in the first sound Soviet film "The Walkth of Life". The artist accounts for a brother theatrical actor Vladimir Batalov and Uncle Alexei Batalov, the performer of the role of Goosh in a two-particle melodrama "Moscow does not believe in tears."
Nikolay Batalov was born in pre-revolutionary Moscow. His birthday came on the old style on November 24, 1899. According to a new style, the actor was born on December 6th. Nikolai was the younger brother Vladimir, who was born in 1902.
The creative path of Batalov began, when at the age of 17 he fell into the Moscow Art Theater to Konstantin Sergeevich Stanislavsky. In 1919, he led and his brother Vladimir. The first role in the Nikolai Theater fulfilled in the "Green Ring" stage in 1916. At the same time, he appeared in the Turgenev "Nahlebnik" and in the Drama of Gorky "at the bottom." From 1914 to 1923, Nikolai Batalov was involved in fifteen performances.
He played in production based on the works of Dostoevsky, Gorky, Chekhov, Turgenev and other Russian classics. On the work of Batalov on stage at that time, Anatoly Vasilyevich Lunacharsky was positively responded. A break in the theater career Aktera had to be made due to illness. Nicholas half a year he heal tuberculosis and managed to play in the movies, and then returned to theatrical layouts.
The brightest work for the whole career of Batalov in the theater is considered to be the role of Figaro in the comedy of the Bomaoussa "crazy day". For the first time, Nikolai appeared in this image in 1927. Critics with delight reacted to the work of a 27-year-old artist in this formulation. After 10 years, the Neckless Figaro became the last character, which was represented by the battles on the scene. He completed his theatrical career by the performance of the "Mad Day" on February 18, 1935.
Films
The debut of Nikolai Batalov in the movie took place in 1918. He had an episodic role in the Black and White Tape "Vine Mountains", which is also known as the "Legend of Antichrist". The film was demonstrated only once in 1921 in St. Petersburg.
The first noticeable work of Nikolai Batalov in the cinema was the role of Krasnoarmeyman Gusev in the tape "Aelita", released in 1924. At that time, the actor was already sick with tuberculosis and did not play the theater about 6 months. The synatographer became the ability to return to his favorite profession, despite the state of health. The picture "Aelita" was removed based on the novel of Alexei Tolstoy's novel. According to the story, the hero of Batalova is sent to Mars, where he helps an alien proletariat in the fight against usurpers.
The film had a short success in the capital, he was even taken abroad, but foreigners were ignored by the Soviet tape. It is worth noting that Igor Ilinsky, famous for the Russian viewer for the director of the House of Culture of Seraphim Ogurtsova, was also distinguished in the picture of an excellent game.
In 1926, the painting "Mother" was released on the screens, in which Batalov played the son of the main character of Pavel Vlasov. The plot of the film is built around the family drama in the conditions of pre-revolutionary fever in Russia. The tape in 1958 was recognized as the sixth on the list of the best paintings of all times and peoples, following the results of an open voting of the congress of young directorists in Brussels. This tape was the first of the revolutionary trilogy of the director of Vsevolod Pudovkin. At the end of the film, the hero of Batalov dies. The success of the film surpassed the waiting of the scripts, and they regretted that they did not save the image of Pavel Vlasov and did not spend it through all three films to victory of the revolution.
After the success of the film "Mother" Nikolai Stepanovich starred a lot. In 1927, three paintings came out with his participation. Batalov appeared as a friend of Anton in the social drama "Wife", in the quality of Countryman Mary in the tape "Land in captivity", in the image of Kolya in the film "Third Meshchanskaya".
In 1931, the most famous picture was published in the filmography of Nikolai Batalov. "Pourevka to life" - the first sound Soviet film. Batalov performed a major role in it. The actor played Nikolai Ivanovich Sergeyev, who organized the commune in which street children worked. The picture tells about the first years of Soviet power and has a noticeable agitation Fleur.
A year after the show of the first sound film with Nikolai Batalov, the horizon tape was published, in which the actor again appeared as the main character. The plot of this picture was built around the fate of the Jewish Emigrant, who returned to Soviet Russia from America. The role of Jew Lev's horizon revealed the ability not only to external, but also to internal reincarnations.
In 1934, a short "shepherd and king" appeared, telling about the biography of a simple shepherd, who became a red commander. And again the main role went to Nicholas.
The latest works of Batalov in the cinema are dated 1935. In the tape "Treasures of the deceased ship" Nikolai played Dolazia Alexey Panova. The hero of Batalova was before temptation, but he coped with him. Submarine frames in this films were removed at the bottom of the Black Sea in the Crimea. Specialists of the exploratory work experts of special purpose (Epron) were attracted to the filming of water. Also in 1935, the film "Three Comrades" was released, which became the latest in the actor filmography.
Personal life
Battal's personal life is similar to the personal life of many of his contemporaries. Actor lived all his life with one woman. Nikolay Batalov married in 1921 at the age of 22 at the actress MHT Olga Schulz (Androvskaya). Wife gave birth to Batalov daughter in 1923, the girl was named Svetlana, she was the only child in the family.
Nikolai Petrovich had a brother Vladimir, who also became a famous theater actor. Together they worked at the Moscow Art Theater. Son Vladimir Batalova became a famous artist. Spectators remember him in the roles in the paintings "Rumyantsev", "my dear man", "Moscow does not believe in tears."
Alexey Batalov, Nikolai Petrovich's nephew, in an interview shared memories of what role uncle played in his fate. In 1916, Konstantin Sergeevich Stanislavsky invited Nikolai Batalov to Moscow Art Theater. It was thanks to the charm of the artist to the theater and his younger brother Vladimir and his younger brother. Alexei Batalov's parents met in the theater, and although the family broke out very quickly, a child had time to appear in it. Not without the protection of uncle, young Alexey got into the cinema, and later - to the theater.
Cause of death
In 1923, even before the filming in his first film, the battles got sick tuberculosis. This disease tormented the actor all his life. His theatrical career could be longer if it were not for a planning state of health. Batalov treated the lungs in Poland, in Italy, in the North Caucasus. He spent time in the sanatoriums, drank water from healing sources. In 1935, Nikolai Petrovich undertook the last attempt to treat his dyeing disease in the Polish sanatorium, but this did not bring a positive result. A little without surviving up to his thirty-eighth birthday, the actor died.
It happened in November 1937. The cause of death is tuberculosis. Berded Nikolai Petrovich Batalov in Moscow at the Novodevichy Cemetery. In 1975, his wife Olga Schulz (Androvskaya) was buried next to the actor. In the spring of 2011, Svetlana Batalov was still near his parents.
Filmography:
- 1924 - Aelita
- 1926 - Mother
- 1927 - Wife
- 1927 - Land in captivity
- 1927 - Third Meshchanskaya
- 1931 - Course to life
- 1932 - horizon
- 1934 - Shepherd and King
- 1935 - the treasure of the deceased ship
- 1935 - three comrades