Vasily Grigoryevich Voskresensky (September 16, 1888, Kaunas - July 27, 1951, Paris ) - Russian military, theater figure, entrepreneur , one of the directors of the Russian Opera in Paris, organizer and general director of the Russian Ballet Monte Carlo troupes (1932-1936) , Original Russian ballet , under the pseudonym Colonel W. de Basil ( English Colonel W. de Basil ) [1] [2] .
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| Birth name | Vasily G. Voskresensky | |||||||||
| Aliases | Colonel de Basil | |||||||||
| Date of Birth | September 16, 1888 | |||||||||
| Place of Birth | Kovno , Russian Empire | |||||||||
| Date of death | July 27, 1951 (62 years old) | |||||||||
| Place of death | Paris , France | |||||||||
| Citizenship |  Russian empire | |||||||||
| Profession | military entrepreneur | |||||||||
| Theater | troupes “Russian ballets of Monte Carlo”, “Russian Ballet Covent Garden”, “Original Russian Ballet” | |||||||||
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Biography
Family
- First wife (1908 - March 1914) - Vera Nikolaevna Voskresenskaya, nee Geevskaya, daughter of the Tiflis justice of the peace Nikolai Nikolaevich Geevsky and teacher Vera Semenovna Geevskaya (nee Robitashvili). On January 14, 1912, their son Igor was born in Tiflis (on November 10, 1941, he went to the front from Moscow, died on June 3, 1943. He was buried in Velizh, Smolensk region). Grandson - Valery Igorevich Voskresensky, born in 1939 in Moscow, in 1972 moved with his family to Minsk, died on May 3, 2018 in Minsk.
- The second wife is the ballerina Leonidova, Nina .
- The third wife (1938-1951) is the ballerina Olga Morozova de Basil .
Military Service
Member of the Russian-Japanese and World War I. In 1904, at 16, while still a minor, he went to the front as a volunteer. He served in the equestrian detachment of General Mishchenko . The war of 1914 begins with the rank of ensign. He fought on the Caucasian front as part of the Kuban Cossack army. Since 1915 - in the Russian expeditionary force in Persia. In 1916, Voskresensky was a regimental adjutant (chief of staff) of the 3rd Combined Kuban Regiment. Since August 1916, when the formation of partisan hundreds begins in the corps, it becomes a centurion - commander of a special hundred partisans. In 1918, Voskresensky was already in the rank of colonel in Baku (since December 1918) and passed as the "chief plenipotentiary for naval affairs", commanding a flotilla in the formations of Lazar Bicherakhov . In this capacity, he actively participated in the defense of Baku and Port Petrovsk from Turkish and Azerbaijani troops.
Rewards
- Order of St. George IV degree
- St. George's Arms
- Order of St. Vladimir IV degree with swords
- St. George's Crosses with a laurel branch of I and II degrees (since 1917, officers were awarded these crosses at the request of the lower ranks)
- Order of St. Stanislav III degree (November 30, 1915)
- Order of St. Anne of the IV degree (with an inscription for courage, January 28, 1917)
- Medal "In Memory of the Russo-Japanese War" (awarded to persons related to the Russo-Japanese War)
- A number of distinguishing allied armies, including the British Military Cross
- Medal of V. Nizhinsky , February 1, 2003
- Order of S. Diaghilev I degree, August 23, 2013
Theatrical figure
Voskresensky himself admitted: “I was an unemployed professional military man; my skills had no commercial value. I could not get a taxi driver, but only a driver of an eight-ton truck. " Voskresensky collaborated with such recognized masters of the stage as Mikhail Fokin , George Balanchine , Leonid Myasin , Bronislava Nizhinskaya , Sergey Grigoryev , David Lishin , Vanya Psota , John Taras . Lyubov Chernysheva , Alexander Danilova , Tamara Tumanova , Irina Baronova , Tatyana Ryabushinskaya , Anna Volkova, sisters Nina Vershinina and Olga Morozova, Tatyana Stepanova, Andre Eglevsky danced in his ballet troupes.
Ballet troupes, led by Colonel de Bazil, made a significant contribution to the development of ballet around the world, visiting 600 cities in 70 countries and giving more than 4000 performances on tour.
Russian ballets of Colonel de Basil
VG Voskresensky acted as the organizer and general director of Russian Ballets abroad. His ballet entreprise Russian ballet by Colonel de Basil performed under various names:
- Ballets Russes dir. W. de Basil, 1921-1925
- Zerbason , Ballet of the Russian Opera in Paris ( French Opera Russe a Paris ), 1925-1931
- Russian ballet Monte Carlo ( French Les Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo ), 1932-1936 [3]
- Russian ballet by Colonel de Basil ( French Ballets Russes du Colonel de Basil , English Сlonel W. de Basil's Ballet Russe or English Сolnel W. de Basil's Russian Ballet ), 1935-1939, on tour in England, USA, Australia and New Zealand, South America [3]
- Covent Garden Russian Ballet ( Eng. Covent Garden Russian Ballet or French Covent Garden Ballet Russe ), 1938-1939, at performances related to the London Covent Garden Theater [3]
- Original Russian Ballet ( French Original Ballet Russe ), 1939-1948 and 1951-1952 [3]
The troupe of Colonel de Basil The original Russian ballet represented the renewed ballet The Prodigal Son by S. S. Prokofiev in 1938 on tour in Australia, Sydney [4] and in 1942 in Brazil, Rio de Janeiro [5] .
Memory
- The ashes of V. G. Voskresensky rest in the cemetery of Sainte-Genevieve-des-Bois near Paris. On the grave, under the Orthodox cross, is written in Russian “Colonel Vasily Grigoryevich Voskresensky” and in French - “Colonel de Basil”. Above both inscriptions is the line that was the meaning of his life: “Long live Mother Russia!” [ [1] ]
- In July-September 2011 the House of Russian Abroad named. A.I. Solzhenitsyna (Moscow) held an exhibition dedicated to the 60th anniversary of his death.
- In August-September 2013, the Theater Museum. A. A. Bakhrushina (Moscow) held the exhibition “ Russian ballets of Colonel de Basil ”, dedicated to the 125th anniversary of his birth.
Notes
- ↑ People of Russia and the former USSR! De Basil (Colonel de Basil; Voskresensky Vasily Grigorievich) (unavailable link) . Date of treatment March 8, 2012. Archived December 3, 2013.
- ↑ Faith and time. Announcement of a photo exhibition in the House of Russian Abroad named after A. Solzhenitsyna
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Surits, 2009 , p. 66.
- ↑ Surits E. Ya. “The Prodigal Son” // Ballet: Encyclopedia / Ch. ed. Yu. N. Grigorovich . - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1981. - 623 p.
- ↑ Nestiev I.V. Life of Sergei Prokofiev / Editor I. Prudnikova. - 2nd revised and supplemented. - M .: Soviet composer, 1973. - S. 343. - 663 p.
Literature
- Bezgladny A. Yu. Bicherahov and his Caucasian army 1917-1919. - M. 2011.
- Vasiliev A.A. , Tripolitova K.A. Little ballerina: Confession of a Russian emigrant. - M. 2010.
- Kruchinin A. S. Love fame and fear not poverty. "Theatrical world." 2011, No. 8-9, S. 52-59; No. 10, pp. 60–71.
- Meilach M. Euterpe, you? Artistic notes. Conversations with artists of the Russian emigration. Volume I: Ballet. - M. 2008.
- Nikitin B.V. The Fatal Years. - Paris, 1937, Moscow 2007.
- Strelyanov P.N. Corps of General Baratov 1915-1918. - M. 2002.
- Strelyanov (Kalabukhov) P.N. Cossacks in Persia 1908-1918. - M. Centerpolygraph, 2007. ISBN 978-5-9524-3057-0 .
- Surits E. Ya. “Russian Ballet of Diaghilev” and his followers in person // History of the “Russian Ballet”, real and fantastic in drawings, memoirs and photographs from the archive of Mikhail Larionov / Scientific. ed. Elizabeth Surits, Gleb Pospelov . - M .: Interros Publishing Program, 2009. - 432 p. - (“First Publication”). - ISBN 978-5-91491-013-3 .
- Surits E. Ya. About the entrepreneur de Basil - Colonel V. G. Voskresensky. "Bulletin of the Academy of Russian Ballet named after A. Ya. Vaganova." 2011, No 1 (25). S. 81-94.
- Khetagurov G. A. Truth about General Bicherahov. "Daryal", 2008, No. 1, 2, 3.
- Garcia-Marquez, Vicente The Ballets Russes: Colonel de Basil's Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo 1932-1952. New York: 1990. Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 0-394-52875-1 .
- Kathrin Sorley Walker DE BASIL'S BALLETS RUSSES. Alton, 1982, 2010.
- Victoria.Garcia Victorica El Original Ballet Russe en America Latina. Buenos Aires., 1947.