Ge, Grigory Grigoryevich

Born in the family of Grigory Nikolayevich Ge , in which there were five children - four older daughters and a son.

He studied in Paris , at the Frebel school. At ten, he was given a boarding school at the Richelieu gymnasium , but at the end of the first year, by mistake, he was expelled from the gymnasium. Again he left with his mother in Paris, but a year later returned to Odessa and entered the second grade of the 1st Odessa gymnasium, from where he was also expelled, but for his own prank. After the death of his mother, he moved to his father in Nikolaev , where he graduated from a real school in 1886. On the advice of his uncle, the artist went to St. Petersburg with the intention of entering the Academy of Arts , but an old family friend I.E. Repin advised him to do theater art. In the Petersburg theater school of L. D. Korovyakov, G. G. Ge studied with M. P. Pisarev and his assistant V. V. Shumilin, and a year later he began performing in the entreprise of Nezlobin (Alyabyev) ..

He began his stage activity in 1889 in Saratov . He spent two winter seasons in Astrakhan , then there were Vilno , Voronezh , Kharkov , where he played for two years. He was invited to St. Petersburg, to the Suvorin Theater, on the order of which he wrote his second play - “Trilby”.

From 1897 until the end of his life he played on the stage of the Alexandrinsky Theater in St. Petersburg. Performed tragic roles: Shylock , Hamlet, Mephistopheles, Iago (in Othello ), John (The Death of Ivan the Terrible by A. K. Tolstoy), Boris (in Boris Godunov ) Ivanov (in Chekhov's Ivanov ), etc. He wrote about 20 plays performed on the capital and provincial stages: “Nabat” (1897), “Trilby” (1898), “Execution” (1897), “Jean Ermolaev” (1906).

In 1922, in connection with the fiftieth anniversary, he received the title of Honored Artist of the State Academic Theaters.

In 1937 he was defeated by paralysis. He died on January 13, 1942 in Moscow.

"Theater Russia" (Moscow, 1928).

Wife: Anna Ivanovna Ge (nee Novikova, Vuich in her second marriage, 1881-1949) - dramatic actress (performed at the Alexandrinsky Theater ), collector of Russian silver and furniture; married to Georgy Ivanovich Vuich (1867-1957); in exile in France , one of the owners of the House of Underwear and Fashion "Anek" ( Paris ).

Daughter: Iya G.-Abdi (1903-1992) - dressmaker, fashion designer, fashion model; brought up at the Pavlovsk Institute; wife of British Lord Robert Edward Abdi.

Son: Gregory emigrated to the United States , where he became an actor under the name Gregory Gaye

Grandson: actor George Gaines

• Ge, Grigory Grigoryevich // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
• Autobiography // Actors and directors. - M .: Modern problems, 1928.