Matvey Efremovich Varsapov ( Grandfather Matvey ) - reindeer herder of the Kara tundra , Nenets playwright.
| Matvey Efremovich Varsapov | |
|---|---|
| Date of Birth | 1888 |
| Place of Birth | Kara tundra , Pechora district , Arkhangelsk province |
| Date of death | May 15, 1967 |
| A place of death | Saddle , Komi Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic |
| Citizenship |  Russian Empire →  the USSR |
| Occupation | playwright |
| Language of Works | Russian, Nenets |
Biography
Born in 1888. He mastered the art of training sled deer born from crossing domestic deer with wild ones. He was known as an original performer of epic and genre songs of the Nenets. He was the author of the Nenets play "The Shaman", staged in Naryan-Mar in 1936 at the Olympiad of folk art. In this play, the cunning and greed of shamans is exposed [1] .
He died on May 15, 1967 and was buried at station near Vorkuta ( ). Varsapov's sculpture “Grandfather Matvey” (tree, 1969) by S. A. Kruglov is in the Nenets Museum of Local Lore .
Notes
- ↑ Stage art // “Soviet Arctic”, No. 5, 1938 - P. 49
Literature
- Interview with Grandfather Matthew: Humoresca / V. Tolkachev // Nyaryana vyder. - 1966. - Sep 2.
- Grandfather Matvey: Essay / V. Tolkachev // Nyaryana vyderder. - 1967. - February 26, 28.
- Grandfather Matvey / V. Tolkachev // Komsomolskaya Pravda. - 1967. - June 21.
- Grandfather Matvey in Moscow / V. Tolkachev // Nyaryana vyderder. - 1969. - June 7.
- M. Varsapov // Ogryzko V.V. Writers and writers of the small peoples of the North and the Far East: biobibliogr. directory. - M., 1998 .-- Part 1.
- Varsapov Matvey Efremovich // Ogryzko V.V. Nenets literature - M., 2003.