Today I would like to talk with you about Yanuariy Bortnik. Perhaps not all of you know him, but this wonderful Ukrainian theater director and actor was shot at the NKVD prison in Kiev on the 16th of January, 1938. I want to tell you about his fate.
He was born in an ordinary peasant family in the hamlet Near the Forest near the village Ozerna, in Ternopil region. Later the family moved to Ternopil, Yanuariy entered the Ukrainian school. Man enchanted theater and music. He tried to watch every play of the Lviv Theatre Company "Russian Conversation", he even had favorite actors there.
This passion completely changed his life. Once, Les Kurbas, famous director, about whom I told you before, arrived to the Ternopil. Yanuariy decided to quit school and went to his newly established theater. The guy had bad diction, but he practiced conscientiously, sang in the choir and even danced in the crowd scenes of ballet. His parts were indicated on the posters under the pseudonym "H. Zahrebelny. "
After his teacher Les Kurbas Yanuariy Bortnik moved to Kyiv. His acting became so professional, that he was offered to lead Belotserkovskuyu drama school, which later became a creative association "Berezil." Art critics have noted that Bortnik was able to put the best comedy, and to the play he always brought something interesting. Thus, they were unique.
All of them saw that Bortnik was- a master of his craft. So soon he headed a new theater of small forms in Kharkiv, called "Funny proletarian." He changed several theaters in Kharkiv. He even moved to work to Dnipropetrovsk.
Throughout his musical comedy perceived extremely warm. While the Soviet authorities believed that the operetta was something very unserious, theater experts could use it in order to communicate with people through art. Yanuariy Bortnik was one of the best in this.
Unfortunately, Yanuariy Demyanovich did not have time to realize himself fully. When he was only 40 years old, Bortnik was arrested for nationalism. In a year he was executed. Heavy fate awaited his wife, actress Anna Babiyivna. Immediately after the murder of her husband she was kidnapped by representatives of the NKVD and sent to the Gulag. She returned home in 5 years, but could not come back to the theater.
Eternal memory.
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