Reviz tale - this is today one of the excellent handwritten sources that help in the conduct of genealogical research. And also it is a wonderful performance of the Moscow Taganka Theater.
What is a revision tale?
These are the documents that were needed in orderin order to take into account the population in the Russian Empire, for which an audit was carried out, which had a goal - taxation of the population by air. Such documents were in use in the 18-19 centuries. Reviz tale - a list of the population of each province, with the names, patronymic names, ages of all residents. An audit is the same census. In rural areas, reviz fairy tales were made by village and village elders, while in the cities, representatives of the city government were involved. In total, during the existence of such documents 10 revisions were conducted. In the audit tales inscribed the faces of both sexes - both men and women. But only men included in the summary tables, women did not fit there. For example, revision fairy tales of the Orenburg province make it possible to find out what people lived in this area from 1834 to 1919. How many yards were there, which classes lived, how many were women, men, children, old people. Audit tales of the Orenburg province are now stored in the funds of the state archive.
The form of recording collected information has changed three times.The persons included in this document were called audit souls. Such documents also allow us to now know which localities were in one or another area. For example, the revision fairy tales of the Tambov province say that it included such villages as Olemenevo, Akselmeevo, Novoseloki, Inina Sloboda; villages Zhdanaya, Nikolaevka, Forest flowers and so on.
And here N.V. Gogol?
Everyone knows what Nikolai Vasilyevich hasproduct called "Dead Souls". So, it is not based on the fantasy of the author at all, but on a real historical fact that took place during the conduct of such revisions, which are mentioned above. Between the censuses were clarified. That is, we can say that additional audits were conducted. They were called upon to establish the presence of all souls inscribed in the tale during the previous census. If for any reason a person was absent (died, and so on), then these data were recorded.
According to the rules, clarification of audit tales attributedalready to the subsequent census. The missing soul was considered available until the next revision, even if the person died. Thus, the state increased the collection of per capita tax. But for the unclean, this created excellent conditions for using this rule for their own purposes. It is the fact of such abuse that is reflected in Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol’s work Dead Souls.
"Revizskaya tale" Taganka Theater
"Revizskaya tale" - a performance that wasput in the 70s of the 20th century by Yury Lyubimov at the Taganka Theater, which he directed until the last days of his life and where he was the main production director. The music for the play was written by the composer Alfred Schnittke, she bears the name “Gogol-suite”. The Reviz Fairy Tale of the Taganka Theater sets a goal to reveal the inner world of Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol to the viewer, to show the drama of his soul. The main focus of the performance is on plastic solutions. In the play there are words from the work “Dead Souls”: “Russia! What do you want from me? .. And why everything that is in you turned eyes full of expectations to me? ”Thus, the main motive of N. Gogol’s fate, which asked the question that It means “to be a writer” in our country.
The production of "Reviz Fairy Tale" includesexcerpts from various works of Nikolai Vasilievich - it's "Dead Souls", "The Overcoat", "Notes of a Madman", Auditor "," Portrait "," Nose "," Author's Confession "and even those Gogol texts that were never uttered from the stage before . In the performance, all means of stage expressiveness are used together, which are subordinated to the same meaning, the actors use a special style of play, so the production meets the main idea of V. E. Meyerhold - you need to play not only the play itself, but “the whole author” as a whole. The Taganka Theater in its own way presented the viewer “Dead Souls” to the viewer. “Reviz fairy tale” is a statement that requires the audience to respond to the urgency of public meaning. In the performance, the characters are shown similar to monuments, which reflect the image of the deathly immobility that was inherent in the surrounding N.V. Gogol life. Now the production "Reviz fairy tale" is derived from the repertoire of the Taganka Theater.
Music for the play
"The clash of the sublime and the low in hiswritings, the use of banal - all this, of course, influenced me to a great extent. Schlager is a good mask of all devilry, a way to get into the soul. ” That is how the composer Alfred Schnittke spoke about the work of N. V. Gogol. “Reviz fairy tale” was not accidentally filled to such an extent with music. Nikolai Vasilyevich was a very musical man. He attached great importance to this type of art. The writer knew the musical notation. In the plots of his works were created operas. The creation of A. Schnittke “The Reviz Fairy Tale” is a production, music in which is an integral part, it has an important role here, thanks to it, the necessary space and time of action is created on the theater stage.
Storyline in music
Suite A. Schnittke, which sounds during the "Reviz tale", consists of eight parts:
- "Overture".
- "Childhood Chichikov."
- "Portrait".
- "The Overcoat".
- "Ferdinand VIII".
- "Officials".
- "Ball".
- "Will".
Characters of the play
The main protagonist of the play "Revizskaya tale" was Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol himself. The remaining characters are the characters in the writer's works:
- Pavel Ivanovich Chichikov.
- Aksentiy Ivanovich Poprishchin.
- Andrei Petrovich Chertkov.
- Akaky Akakievich Bashmachkin.
- Spanish King Ferdinand VIII.
- An unnamed ballet officer, whose body is at the departmental table, and the soul is in the theater.
Summary of the performance
После того как отзвучала увертюра, перед The audience presented a small sprout that grew and turned into the head of a child. She is wearing a cap. The head was fed porridge from a spoon, she ate with great appetite and gradually became huge. Then a mister appeared out of it, the middle one, or rather no one. This is Chichikov. The background to what is happening on the stage are the words about a boy who knew how to save and save money. Further action is a fragment from the story “Portrait”. Shown here is the artist who lost fame. He falls into despair because of this, loses the ability to create new worthy works of art, he has a desire to take revenge on this to the whole world and destroy all masterpieces. Now the play is transferred to the story "The Overcoat". This piece of clothing here gets a different embodiment - it is not clothes, but a lively woman - a friend, wife, whom the main character loves very much. The next part of the performance is a fragment of the story “Officials”. There are many, they are all the same, nameless, all have the same standing white collar and creaking feathers. A sort of endless anthill of human souls, some of them, perhaps, long since dead, is replaced by a ball scene. The main character is on the stage again, the characters he creates surround him, they laugh at him, make faces and make faces for him.
The author of the idea of the play
Yuri Petrovich Lyubimov - actor, director,artistic director of the Taganka Theater and creator of the play “Revizskaya tale” - was born on September 30, 1917 in Yaroslavl. In 1922 he moved to Moscow with his parents, elder brother and younger sister. In 1934, Yu. Lyubimov entered the studio school at the Moscow Art Theater-2. In 1936 he was admitted to the school at the E. Vakhtangov Theater. After graduation, in 1941, Yu. Lyubimov was drafted into the army, where he served in the Song and Dance Ensemble, organized in order to maintain the fighting spirit of the soldiers.
Role actors
Wonderful actors were busy staging"Reviz tale." Gogol N. V. was skillfully played by the People's Artist of Russia Felix Antipov. The performance was played by actors known to the general public by their movie roles: Ivan Bortnik, Veniamin Smekhov, Boris Khmelnitsky, as well as other great actors.
