Vladimir Egorovich Giatsintov was a Russian art critic and playwright, professor of art history at Moscow University. He specialized in Italian Renaissance sculpture. In the history of Russian literature, he remained as the author of comic plays and parodies, the author of the anonymous play The Cruel Baron (mistakenly attributed to A.P. Chekhov).
Background
Vladimir Egorovich Giatsintov was born on February 26, 1858, in Voronezh, Russian Federation. He was the second son of a military engineer Egor Giatsintov who was an engineer captain, served at the railway department, and was engaged in the construction of a provincial gymnasium in Voronezh and the restructuring of the Spasskaya Church. He had brothers Nikolai, a privy councilor, and Erast, the first Russian mayor of Revel (now Tallinn).
Vladimir Egorovich taught at the Moscow Grammar School of S.A. Arsenyeva, in the first Moscow cadet corps, in the Male Grammar School in Kaluga. In 1885-1900 he taught a course in the history of art at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture.
The specifics of Giatsintov’s playwriting intended for the amateur scene are determined by its "unofficial" character. Together with Aleksei Wenkstern, he wrote a comic play Alsim about the "terrible" ups and downs of the novel of a romantic Saint Petersburg poet with a bearded "Trapezundian beauty".
In the history of Russian literature, Vladimir Egorovich remained as the author of comic plays and parodies, the author of the anonymous play The Cruel Baron (mistakenly attributed to A. P. Chekhov). The travesty of the images and the provisions of classical drama, the combination of the "high" style of monologues with colloquial vocabulary and intonation, paradoxes, pungent (sometimes risky), play on words marked Giatsintov’s own play The Cruel Baron - the tragedy in 2 acts, in verses (the plot is borrowed).
In 1900 Vladimir Egorovichv defended and published his dissertation The Revival of Italian Sculpture in the Work of Nicolo Pisano and began lecturing on the history of art at Moscow University, while simultaneously teaching at the Higher Women's Courses of V. Guerrier. In 1902-1917 he was an inspector of the School of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture.
After October 1917 (until 1929) Vladimir Egorovich held senior positions at the Museum of Fine Arts. After the October Revolution, he was a professor at the Department of Theory and History of Arts of the History and Philology Faculty of Moscow University (1919-1921), a professor at the Department of Theory and History of Arts at the Faculty of Social Sciences (1921-1922), a full member of the Scientific Research Institute of Art Studies and Archeology at the Faculty of Social Sciences (1922).
Membership
Shakespearean club
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Moscow City
1870 - 1890
Connections
After marrying Elizaveta Wenkstern, they built a two-story country house in the village of Laptevo, Moscow province (now Russian Federation). Their daughters are Sofya Giatsintova (People's Artist of the USSR) and Elizaveta Rodionova, artist.