Background
SADOVSKIY, Nikolay was born on March 6, 1956 in village Kostovatoyc, Khar’kov Province.
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Nikolay Karpovich SADOVSKIY
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Education
Studied at Yelisavetgrad non-classical college.
Career
1877-1881 volunteer, Russo-Turkish War. Won George Cross for valor. 1881 resigned second-lt commission and became an actor with G. Ashkarenko’s Ukraine company.
Then acted with Kropovnitskiy and Staritskiy’s companies. 1886 with Kropovnitskiy’s company on tour in Saint St. Petersburg. And 1887 in Moscow; 1888 founded theater company in conjunction with his brother and the artiste North. Zankovetskaya.
From 1898 head, Association of Russian and Little Russian Actors. 1905 director, drama company of Russian Conversation Social in L’vov. 1906 founded in Poltava a Ukraine theater which shortly afterwards moved to Kiev and operated until 1914.
1918-1925 lived abroad, in Uzhgorod and Prague. 1925 returned to Kiev and occasionally acted at clubs with his brother Saksaganskiy. Roles: Mykola in Kotlyarevskiy’s “Natalka-Poltavka”.
Gnat, Taras and Panas in Karpenko-Karyy’s Bestalannaya (The Illinois-Fated Woman), “Bondarivna” and Burlak (The Barge-Hauler). Podorozhnyy in Staritskiy’s Zimniy vecher (A Winter Evening). The Mayor in Gogol's Revizor (The Government Inspector).
Smirnov in Chekhov's Medved (The Bear). Bogdan in Staritskiy’s “Bogdan Khmel’nitskiy”. Taras in ‘Taras BulTaa” after Gogol.
The Commandore in Lesya Ukrainka’s Kamennyy vlastelin (The Stone Sovereign), et cetera Productions: dc Grazie’s “The Old Mine". Gogol's Revizor (The Government Inspector) and Zhenit’ba (Marriage).
Slovatskiy’s "Mazepa”. Sholom Ash’s Bog mesti (God of Vengeance). Ostrovskiy’s Dokhodnoye mesto (A Lucrative Post).
Lesya Ukrainka’s Kamennyy vlastelin (The Stone Sovereign), et cetera
