Gromovenko, Pavel Fedorovich

Born on June 24, 1941 in the village of Kreschenovka (now Novovorontsovsky district , Kherson region , Ukraine ). His father , Fyodor Parfentievich, went missing during the Great Patriotic War in April 1944 , his mother , Galina Ivanovna, died in 1945 from an explosion of a projectile, after which Pavel and his brother Anatoly were taken up by a grandfather and a woman . During the famine of 1947, children were sent to an orphanage , which was located in the district center - Novovorontsovka . In 1948, Pavel’s relatives took him to Kreschenovka, where the boy went to the first grade of a seven-year school ^[1] .

After graduation, Pavel worked as a carpenter, concrete worker, porter in the Donbas , in Nikopol . Then he went to the South Urals , to Orsk , where Brother Anatoly lived then. There, at the plant, he mastered the profession of electric welder. In Orsk, after staging in the theater of the young spectator in 1961, the play “Nazar Stodolya” in the Ukrainian language , in which Pavel Gromovenko played the main role, and his talent was revealed. In the same year he entered the acting department of the Kiev Theater Institute ^[2] .

In 1966, he graduated from the IKT Karpenko-Kary State Institute of Technology and Architecture (by N. Esipenko). In 1967 - 1969 he worked in KTO , in 1969 - 1977 - in the Kiev Ukrainian Drama Theater named after I. Franko , since 1977 - in the Kiev Philharmonic Society , on the Ukrainian radio and television. Since 1987 - teacher of the Kiev Theater Institute.

He lived in Kiev (in 1964 - 1995 on Vladimirskaya Street , 48) ^[3] . He died (hit by a car ) on October 18, 1997 . He was buried at Baikovo Cemetery ^[4] .

Works: mono performances based on works of Ukrainian and Russian classics, contemporary writers: “Standing on the Ground” by B. I. Oleinik , “My Cradle is Scythian Steppe” (Ukrainian poetry, prose, song, romance), two programs on the work of V. M. Shukshina - “I have come to give you will” and “a viburnum is a bunch”; “The wreath of sonnets” (classical European poetry of the Renaissance - F. Petrarch , W. Shakespeare , P. Scarron and others; accompanied by pianist I. Poroshneva, who performed works by J. Palestrina , A. Scarlatti , F. Liszt , I. S Bach ), “I will honor Titan Prometheus” (Ukrainian classics), “... Most of all - love of country” (based on works of O. Gonchar , R. G. Gamzatov , I. F. Drach , C. T. Aitmatov , Yu. I. Yanovsky ), “From oblivion to immortality” (works of the executed revival ), “I am the people” (according to the works of Ukrainian poets).

In the literary composition “From the pages that captive darkness” included works by A. Olesya , L. M. Staritskaya-Chernyakhovskaya , E. P. Pluzhnik , P. G. Tychiny , M. Volnovy , I. P. Bagryany , M. D Rudenko , V.S. Stus .

The program “The Cossack Clan is not translated” included works by T. G. Shevchenko , N. V. Gogol , N. S. Vingranovsky , B. N. Mozolevsky , M. Ilchenko, S. P. Plachindy .

A significant place in the works of Pavel Fedorovich was occupied by the poetry of T. Shevchenko. The 1984 program “We are not evil with you” was banned by official bodies as “socially harmful” (the program includes works “The Caucasus”, “The Message ...”, “The Dug Grave” and others). On the 175th anniversary of T. Shevchenko, Pavel Gromovenko prepared the program “And I do not care ...”. In his interpretation, the poet appeared as a man of broad erudition, a European intellectual who devoted his life, thoughts and talent to his people. The epigraph of Gromovenko’s one-man show was lines from P. N. Gornyak’s “Works of Shevchenko are anger, not a zhura!”.

• Honored Artist of the Ukrainian SSR ( 1985 )
• National Prize of Ukraine named after Taras Shevchenko ( 1993 ) - for the concert program "I do not care" (1989-1992)
• People's Artist of Ukraine (title conferred by the Decree of the President of Ukraine No. 125/96 of November 29, 1996 ) ^[5] .

• Directory of National Prize Laureates. Taras Shevchenko (inaccessible link)