Biography of Karogo

The news actor and playwright I. Karpenko-Kary Karpenko-Kariy Ivan Karpovich [stage and literary pseudonym Tobilevich Ivan Karpovich]-an outstanding Ukrainian playwright and actor. The older brother in the talented galaxy of Tobilevichs, the founders of the professional Ukrainian theater. Karpenko-Kary was born on September 29 in the Arsenovka settlement, now as part of the village of Veselovka, the Novomirgorodsky district of the Kirovograd region in the family of the manager of the landowner estate.

In the year he graduated from the county school in Bobrinz. In years he worked in the police office, served in the city town hall in Bobrinz. He moves to Elisavetgrad in the year, serves in the Elisavetgrad police department. Together with Kropyvnitsky, he organized an amateur dramatic circle in the city. In the years he worked as the secretary of the city police department in Kherson, then again in the Elizabeth Grand Cup, rose to the college secretary.

In the year, for frank Ukrainophile sentiments and their active propaganda, he was fired from work and was under police supervision until the end of his life. In the year, he enters the Ukrainian troupe under the leadership of M. Staritsky and M. Kropyvnytsky, in August is on the first tour in Odessa, where viewers and reviewers accepted it with enthusiasm. For the scene, he took the pseudonym Karpenko-Kary.

In the year, the Karpenko-Kary's stage career was interrupted: he was sent to Novocherkassk for vowel supervision of the police for three years. I got the opportunity to return to the stage in the year. Odessa residents on tour again see their beloved actor. Contemporaries noted the characteristic features of the acting of the Karpenko-Karoy act: “Ivan Karpovich Karpenko-Karya, to a certain extent, was different from his brothers by the manner of acting.

For example, he avoided stage affecting, emphasized presentation of text, intonation, and therefore some could seem like a uniform actor with reduced emotional giving. But this was an erroneous impression, it was not a flaw, but a kind of acting manner, which was based on a special, so to speak, ultraralist understanding of the tasks of the theater, which naturally truthfully represented the words and the author’s thoughts should be in the first place, and then other effects of emotional and artistic order.

Therefore, Karpenko-Kariy so very carefully wrote out his works and, improving them, rewritten several times. Therefore, all the roles that he performed had a calm, balanced realistic form with a clearly conveyed text and a brightly realistically identified character, without any emphasization and theatrical convention. His stage characters were not any exceptional, but ordinary people whom we always meet in life, and therefore they were truthful and convincing "P.

Kovalenko" actor I. Literary activities of Karpenko-Kariy began in the middle of the 10th as a critic, a feuilletonist and publicist. The first story “The Recubamine” published in the year in the Ukrainian almanac “Rada”, published in Kyiv, M. from prose is also known the Russian -speaking feuilleton “Fairy Tale”, published in the year in the newspaper “Odessa Bulletin”. In the dramatic heritage of Karpenko-Kara, 18 original plays and several alterations.

The first play "Chaban", publ. With this play, Karpenko-Kary said about himself as a creator of Ukrainian social drama. Nikolai Karpovich believed that such interesting plays, especially the “Rosomic, Durny” should be shown first to Odessa citizens, because they are interested in the Ukrainian theater and love Ukrainian actors. Of those cities that were allowed to visit Ukrainian troupes, only Odessa could properly evaluate something new in our repertoire ”S.

Tobilevich“ My paths and meetings ”. At that time, the Tobilevichi spouses were under the supervision of the police in Novocherkassk, neither the playwright himself, nor his actress’s wife could attend the premiere shows, so they were very impressed and touched by such an event: “When the troupe began to represent both plays in Odessa, some kind soul thought of sending us all newspapers with reviews for performances and for roles.

artists. The most famous plays of the Karpenko-Karoy, still not coming from the stage, are Martin Borul, publ. The top of the Ukrainian drama of the classical period is the tragedy of "Savva Chalia", publ. Sofia Tobilevich, who witnessed how the plays of the Karpenko-punishment were born, wrote: “The writer Tobilevich strictly verified all his verbal material and polished, polished his tongue carefully and without regret.

At first I was very surprised at Ivan's severity to myself. Many times it seemed to me that he was throwing too many words from the text he wrote. But when work on the play was moving to an end, I saw that the truth was not on my side, but on the side of a strict and demanding author.

I was convinced that the stinginess of the text helped the writer to make his characters more vivid and expressive in terms of their characters ”S. In Odessa, the first complete edition of dramas and comedies I. was published in Odessa.Karpenko-Karoy, the last fifth volume was assembled in Odessa, but published in Poltava. Franco wrote: "He was one of the fathers of the modern Ukrainian theater, an outstanding artist and, moreover, a great playwright, to whom our literature has no equal." He died on September 15 in Berlin, was buried in the village of Karlyuzhino, now the village of Karlyugovka, Kirovograd district, Kirovograd region.