Background
BRYANTSEV, Aleksandr was born on April 14, 1883 in St. Petersburg.
BRYANTSEV, Aleksandr was born on April 14, 1883 in St. Petersburg.
1908 graduate Faculty of History and Philology, St. Petersburg University.
Until 1904 actor and assistant stage director at theaters in St. Petersburg. 1904 actor, assistant stage director, then stage director, Gaydcburov's Everyman Theater. 1905 helped to organize the "Mobile Theater”.
1919 together with Gaydeburov founded theatrical department, Petrograd Institute of Extra-Curricular Activities. 1922-1961 foundcr-director, Leningrad Young Playgoers’ Theater. Productions: Sophocles’ "Oedipus Rex” (1906) and "Antigone” (1908).
Hauptmann’s "Einsame Menschen" (1909). Gogol’s Zhenit'ba (Marriage) (1916). Konyok-Gorbunok (The Little Hump-Backed Horse), after Yershov (1922).
Ostrovskiy’s Bednost’ne porok (Poverty Is No Vice) (1923). Makar’yev’s Timoshkin rudnik (Tim’s Mine) (1925). Gogol’s Revizor (The Government- Inspector) (1936).
Katayev’s Syn polka (Son of the Regiment) (1946). Mikhalkov’s Krasnyy galstuk (The Red Necktie) (1947), etc. Roles: Luka in Gorky’s Na dne (The Lower Depths).
Firs in Chekhov’s Vishnyovyy sad (The Cherry Orchard). Rasplozhcnskiy in Svoi lyudi sochtyomsya (Like Father, Like Son), etc.
Communist Party member from 1943.