• About Pavel Markov: Art Historian and Critic, Theorist and Practitioner of Theatre

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DOI: 10.35852/2588-0144-2024-1-111-120

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Boris N. Lyubimov

PhD in Arts, Рrofessor, Head of the Department of History of Russian theatre at the Russian Institute of Theatre Art (GITIS),Rector at The Mikhail Shchepkin Higher Theatre
The Mikhail Shchepkin Higher Theatre School (Institute)
Moscow, Russia
E-mail: shepkinskoe@theatre.ru

About Pavel Markov: Art Historian and Critic, Theorist and Practitioner of Theatre

Abstract

Pavel Markov is a unique phenomenon of a theatre historian, who was both a theatre critic, an active participant of all the theatre events, a historian and a theatre theorist. He was especially interested in two epochs: the time before the Maly Theatre and the Alexandrinsky Theatre during the period of liberal reforms. Markov is a philologist and the author of articles about such Russian playwrights as A. Ostrovsky, N. Nekrasov, A. Sukhovo-Kobylin, M. Bulgakov, L. Leonov. The article Fixing Acting clearly reveals his talent as a theorist. To understand his place in theatre studies and his individuality, it is important to note that he, being carried away by modern theatre, perceived the theatre process as something unified — a movement, a flow. He looked at this process from the point of view that Bakhtin called “extra-locality”. For Markov, it was extremely important to understand the place of all the participants in the theatre process in terms of history. He always treated any new phenomenon in the history of culture, art, and thought with an interest. Markov is the author of many works about outstanding contemporaries, including actors Fedotova, Ermolova, Leshkovskaya, Davydov, Yuzhin and many others. He was a younger contemporary of Mikhail Chekhov and Alisa Koonen. He was familiar with Kachalov, Berdyaev and Vyacheslav Ivanov. He met Stanislavsky, NemirovichDanchenko, Meyerhold, Tovstonogov, Lyubimov, Efros, Efremov, Vakhtangov, Tairov. He saw the debuts of Fomenko and Fokin, along with the first performances of Anatoly Vasiliev. His experience of theatre studies and his works, that firstly appeared more than a century ago, are much valuable nowadays.

Keywords

P.A. Markov, theatre studies, theatre criticism, history of Russian theatre of the twentieth century, Moscow Art Theatre, Maly Theatre, Alexandrinsky Theatre.

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Lyubimov B. N. About Pavel Markov: Art Historian and Critic, Theorist and Practitioner of Theatre. Theatre. Fine Arts. Cinema. Music. 2024, no. 1, pp. 111–120.

DOI: 10.35852/2588-0144-2024-1-111-120

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References

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  2. Korolenko V. G. Istorija moyego sovremennika. V 3 t. [The History of My Сontemporary. In 3 vols.] Moscow: Khudozhestvennaja literatura, 1935–1938. 
  3. Markov P. A. Moralizm Ostrovskogo [Ostrovsky’s Moralism]. In: Markov P. A. O teatre: v 4 t. T. 1. Iz istorii russkogo i sovetskogo teatra [About the Theatre. In 4 vols. Vol. 1. From the History of Russian and Soviet Theatre]. Moscow: Iskusstvo 1974, pp. 132–154. 
  4. Markov P. A. Nekrasov i teatr [Nekrasov and the Theatre] In: Markov P. A. O teatre: v 4 t. T. 1. Iz istorii russkogo i sovetskogo teatra [About the Theatre. In 4 vols. Vol. 1. From the History of Russian and Soviet Theatre]. Moscow: Iskusstvo 1974, pp. 115–131. 
  5. Markov P. A. Epokha nakanune Malogo teatra [The Era on the Eve of the Maly Theatre]. In: Markov P. A. O teatre: v 4 t. T. 1. Iz istorii russkogo i sovetskogo teatra [About the Theatre. In 4 vols. Vol. 1. From the History of Russian and Soviet Theatre]. Moscow: Iskusstvo 1974, pp. 8–43 
  6. Markov P.A. Malyj teatr tridtsatykh i sorokovykh godov 19 veka [Maly Theatre of the Thirties and Forties of the 19th Century]. In: Markov P.A. O teatre: v 4 t. T. 1. Iz istorii russkogo i sovetskogo teatra [About the Theatre. In 4 vols. Vol. 1. From the History of Russian and Soviet Theatre]. Moscow: Iskusstvo 1974, pp. 44–102. 
  7. Markov P. A. O Sukhovo-Kobyline i yego trilogii. K postanovke “Dela” v MKhAT 2-m [About SukhovoKobylin and his Trilogy. On the Production of The Case at the Moscow Art Theatre’s 2nd Studio] In: Markov P. A. O teatre: v 4 t. T. 3. Dnevnik teatral’nogo kritika [About the Theatre. In 4 vols. Vol. 3. Diary of a Theatre Critic]. Moscow: Iskusstvo, 1976, pp. 383–386. 
  8. Markov P. A. M. A. Chekhov v “Dele” Sukhovo-Kobylina [M. A. Chekhov in The Case of Sukhovo-Kobylin]. In: Markov P. A. O teatre: v 4 t. T. 3. Dnevnik teatral’nogo kritika [About the Theatre. In 4 vols. Vol. 3. Diary of a Theatre Critic]. Moscow: Iskusstvo, 1976, pp. 390–393. 
  9. Markov P. A. Bulgakov. In: Markov P. A. O teatre: v 4 t. T. 4. Dnevnik teatral’nogo kritika [About the Theatre. In 4 vols. Vol. 4. Diary of a Theatre Critic]. Moscow: Iskusstvo, 1977, pp. 347–355. 
  10. Markov P. A. Pamjati M. A. Bulgakova [In Memory of M. A. Bulgakov] In: Markov P. A. V Khudozhestvennom teatre: kniga zavlita [In the Art Theatre: The Book of the Head of the Literary Department]. Preface by M.L. Rogachevsky. Moscow: VTO, 1976, pp. 436–438. 
  11. Markov P. A. Teatr Leonida Leonova [Leonid Leonov’s Theatre] In: Markov P. A. O teatre: v 4 t. T. 4. Dnevnik teatral’nogo kritika [About the Theatre. In 4 vols. Vol. 4. Diary of a Theatre Critic]. Moscow: Iskusstvo, 1977, pp. 91–100.
  12. Markov P. A. Fiksatsija akterskoj igry [Fixation of Acting]. In: Teatral’naja kritika: istorija i teorija [Theatre Criticism: History and Theory]. Moscow: GITIS, 1989, pp. 247–275.
  13. Markov P. A. Pritoki odnoy reki. Iz dnevnika starogo teatral’nogo kritika [Tributaries of One River. From the Diary of an Old Theatre Critic]. In: Markov P. A. O teatre: v 4 t. T. 4. Dnevnik teatral’nogo kritika [About the Theatre. In 4 vols. Vol. 4. Diary of a Theatre Critic]. Moscow: Iskusstvo, 1977. T. 4, pp. 581–589. 
  14. Markov P.A.Noveyshiye teatral’nyye techenija (pyt populjarnogo izlozhenija) [The Latest Theatre Trends (Experience of Popular Presentation)]. In: Markov P.A. O teatre: v 4 t. T. 1. Iz istorii russkogo i sovetskogo teatra [About the Theatre. In 4 vols. Vol. 4. Diary of a Theatre Critic]. Moscow: Iskusstvo 1974, pp. 255–321. 
  15. Markov P. A. V. N. Davydov — Famusov. Malyj teatr [V. N. Davydov — Famusov. Maly Theatre]. Teatral’noye obozreniye. 1922, no. 6. 
  16. Markov P. A. Fedotova. In: Markov P. A. O teatre: v 4 t. T. 3. Dnevnik teatral’nogo kritika [About the Theatre. In 4 vols. Vol. 3. Diary of a Theatre Critic]. Moscow: Iskusstvo, 1976, pp. 243–244. 
  17. Markov P.A. Ermolova. In: Markov P.A. O teatre: v 4 t. T. 2. Teatral’nyje portrety [About the Theatre. In 4 vols. Vol. 2. Theatre Portraits]. Moscow: Iskusstvo, 1974, pp. 153–166. 
  18. Markov P. A.Leshkovskaja. In: O teatre: v 4 t. T. 3. Dnevnik teatral’nogo kritika [About the Theatre: In 4 vols. Vol. 3. Diary of a Theatre Critic]. Moscow: Iskusstvo, 1976, pp. 274–276. 
  19. Markov P.A. V. N.Davydov. In: O teatre: v 4 t. T. 3. Dnevnik teatral’nogo kritika [About the Theatre: In 4 vols. Vol. 3. Diary of a Theatre Critic]. Moscow: Iskusstvo, 1976, pp. 276–278. 
  20. Markov P. A. Juzhin. In: Markov P. A. O teatre: v 4 t. T. 2. Teatral’nyje portrety [About the Theatre. In 4 vols. Vol. 2. Theatre Portraits]. Moscow: Iskusstvo, 1974, pp. 167–175.

Received: 22.11.2023

Revised: 09.01.2024

Accepted: 09.01.2024