Background
MESTNIKOV, Vasiliy was born on January 14, 1908.
MESTNIKOV, Vasiliy was born on January 14, 1908.
1925 graduate Yakut Teachers Training Technicum. 1931-1934 studied at Lunacharskiy State Institute of Stagecraft.
Did amateur acting in youth. From 1925 actor, Yakut Theater (Oyunskiy Yakut Music and Drama Theater). From 1934 producer; 1935-1938 and 1942-1943 art director and chief producer, Oyunskiy Theater.
Made major constribution to the development of the Yakut theater, especially in conjunction with the playwright Doctorate Sivtsev and the composers M. Zhirkov and G. Litinskiy, who wrote the first Yakut musical drama “North’yurgun Bootur” in 1940 and reworked it into an opera in 1945. Taught acting and translated a number of plays into Yakut. His productions were notable for their lucidity, directness, expressiveness and picturesque treatment of crowd scenes.
Productions: Sevost’yanov’s “Partisan Morozov”. Mordvinov’s Da zdravstvuyet chelovek (Long Live Manitoba) and Ot kolonii k kommune (From Colony to Commune). Sofronov’s Tina zliizni (The Mire of Life).
Korneychuk’s “Makar Dubrava” (1951). Talanty i poklonniki (Talents and Admirers) (1952). Mukhtarov’s Sem’ya Altana (Allan's Family) (1953).
Galan’s Pod zolotym orlom (Beneath the Golden Eagle) (1954). Tyrin’s Otets i syn (Father and Son) (1956). Sivtsev’s Kuznets Kyukyur (Kyukvur the Blacksmith) (1957).
Communist Party member from 1943.