Background
Vladimir Grigoryevich Shildkret was born on March 7, 1907 in Ostrogozhsk, Voronezh, Russian Federation to a craftsman family.
Vladimir Grigoryevich Shildkret was born on March 7, 1907 in Ostrogozhsk, Voronezh, Russian Federation to a craftsman family.
Vladimir Grigoryevich studied at the Voronezh music school in the vocal class, then he graduated from the Leningrad Institute of painting, sculpture and architecture in 1937.
Vladimir Grigoryevich was an artist of the Voronezh Drama Theater and the Young People's Theatre in 1937-1942. He worked as a stage designer in theaters in Tambov (1942-1944), Perm (1949-1951), and Lviv (1956-1959). In 1944-1949, 1951-1956 Vladimir Grigoryevich was the chief artist and in 1959-1969 - the production designer of the Tula Drama Theater.
In total, Vladimir Grigoryevich designed more than 125 performances, including "Three sisters", "Uncle Vanya" by Anton Chekhov, "Vassa Zheleznova" by Maxim Gorky, "The Spaniards", "Masquerade" by Mikhail Lermontov, "The Last Victim" by Alexander Ostrovsky, "The Taming of the Shrew" by William Shakespeare, "Anna Karenina", "The Power of darkness" by Leo Tolstoy, "The Marriage of Figaro" by Pierre Beaumarchais, "Ghosts" Henrik Ibsen and others.
Vladimir Grigoryevich died on July 25, 1976 in Tula, Russian Federation.
Vladimir Shildkret's performances were always spectacular, had a great pictorial culture, and were distinguished by a subtle sense of era and style. He skillfully created a living environment of life on stage, an atmosphere of action, filled the stage with light, air. He did not like cheap effects, he loved rigor, clarity, academicism in the most harmonious concept of the word.
Vladimir Grigoryevich Shildkret was married and had a daughter.