Radlov Sergey Ernestovich

Radlov Sergey Ernestovich

Genus. in 1892. Graduated from the Faculty of History and Philology of St. Petersburg University (1916). In 1913-1917 - participant of the St. Petersburg studio of V. E. Meyerhold on Borodinskaya Street, employee of the magazine “Love for Three Oranges”. In 1918-1919 worked in the Petrograd branch of the Theater Department of the People's Commissariat of Education, in cultural organizations of the Petrograd Military District and the Baltic Fleet, in the Theater of Experimental Productions organized by him (1918), in the Drama Theater of the State Nardom, in the Studio Theater (1919). He participated in the staging of mass performances in Petrograd, and directed the People's Comedy Theater and its studio, which he founded (1920-1922). He continued Meyerhold's experiments in line with theatrical traditionalism, adapting them to the current needs of mass propaganda theater. In the 1920s paid tribute to theatrical expressionism. In 1923-1928 director (full-time since 1925) of Leningrad academic theaters (Maly Opera, State Drama, Opera and Ballet). Artistic director of the Leningrad Opera and Ballet Theater (1931-1934), Leningrad Drama Theater named after. A. S. Pushkin (1936-1938). In 1928-1942 he headed the Young Theater (since 1936 - Studio Theater in Passage, since 1939 - Lensoveta Theater). In 1942, during the evacuation in Pyatigorsk, the theater fell into the zone of German occupation, was taken to Ukraine, then to Germany. The end of the war took part of his troupe to the south of France. Upon returning to the USSR, he was repressed together with his wife (she died in a camp in 1949), and worked in the camp theater. Released in 1953. In 1953-1954. - director of the Russian Drama Theater in Daugavpils, in 1955-1958. - Riga Russian Drama Theater.