Nikolai Plotnikov is a great Russian actor who has played many comedic roles. At the same time created a number of deep lyrical images.
Biography
Nikolai Plotnikov - actor, director and teacher.Date of birth according to different sources is different: October 23 or 24, 1897. His father worked as a hairdresser. The boy studied at the gymnasium in the city of Vyazma until the sixth grade. In 1910, tragic events occurred in the family, and Kolya was sent by his aunt to study in another city. Nicholas's mother came down from the disease, his father had a heart failure. She died, could not cope with the shock of her sister.
Тетя отправила Колю в Петербург.There the boy lived with his uncle Sergei Ivanovich Kuschenko. Sergei Ivanovich worked as a director in typolithography. There were many artists in the Plotnikov family, and little Kolya got the gift of drawing. At first, the boy studied in typolithography, where he performed various assignments. For example, he went to the grocery store, brewed tea for the masters, did the cleaning in the workshop. Later, Nikolai Plotnikov studied at the drawing school.
In 1915, Nicholas went to the capital, enteredtypolithography Mashistova. Here he received his first order. Nikolay was supposed to invent and draw a label for chocolate. The order was for the current factory called "Red October". Among his works are also posters of beer factories and candy labels for the current “Bolshevik”, at that time it was called Siu factory. The salary increased significantly, and Plotnikov could afford a lot.
In the spring of 1916 he was drafted into the army.Nicholas was identified in Rostov-on-Don to study in the base school. After that, I decided to return back to the Mashistova lithograph. For two years since 1918 he studied at the Moscow Art Theater Studio.
С 1920 года в городе Вязьма получила начало creative activity of Plotnikov Nikolay Sergeevich. He participated in the troupe of the national theater. After two years, he began working in the fourth studio of the Moscow Art Theater. After that, he played in the Theaters of the Revolution, the Red Army, to them. Vakhtangov. After the end of the war since 1945, he worked in the Theater of actor for 11 years.
Николаю Плотникову удавались с блеском как comedy and sharply character roles. In 1936, he played the role of General Commune, Yaroslav Dombrovsky, in the film The Dawns of Paris. In 1944 he played the role of the best man in the famous movie “The Wedding”. He often had to play the role of V.I. Lenin, as in the movie "Prologue" in 1956.
Nikolai Plotnikov was also an excellent teacher.He worked in GITIS and VGIK. Plotnikov lived for 81 years, with most of his life spent on stage. He died according to various sources on February 2 or 3, 1979. The actor was buried in the Novodevichy cemetery, Moscow.
Films in which Plotnikov starred
From 1933 to 1939 she starred in the films “Onesatisfaction ”,“ Generation of Favorites ”,“ Dreamers ”,“ Lenin in 1918 ”,“ Enemy Paths ”,“ The Dawns of Paris ”,“ In People ”,“ A Sailing Lonely White ”,“ Oppenheim Family ”.
From 1941 to 1949 he performed roles in the films “Wedding”, “Battle of Stalingrad”, “Fighting film collector 7”, “Marite”, “Oath”, “White Fang”, “Fall of Berlin”.
From 1954 to 1971, he starred in the films “Prologue”, “Your Contemporaries”, “Every Sage is Simple,” “Nine Days of Year 1”, “Vanka”
Theatrical Roles of Plotnikov
Nikolai Sergeevich played many theatricalroles in the productions of "Exiles", "Peace Festival", "At the Day", "Cricket on the stove". In addition, he played in the performances "Les Miserables", "A Man with a Gun", "A Servant of 2 Masters", "Russian People", "Flood", "Irkutsk Story", "Guilty Without Guilt", "Thomas Gordeyev".
Awards and merits
Nikolai Sergeevich was awarded the Stalinfirst degree award for his role in the movie "The Oath". He received the title of People's, Honored Artist of the RSFSR, People's Artist of the USSR. Awarded the Municipal Award of the RSFSR named after K.S. Stanislavsky.
In 1972 and 1977 he was awarded two Orders of Lenin, the Order of the Red Banner of Labor. At the All-Union Film Festival awarded the prize for the best male role in the movie "Your Contemporary".
In honor of Nikolai Sergeevich Plotnikov
A street in the city of Vyazma was named in his honor.And also a film about him was shot under the name “Nikolay Sergeevich Plotnikov”. After death, a memorial plaque was opened in the theater in which Plotnikov began his career.
He was a great actor, director andteacher, he played many comedic and sharply character roles. He put a lot of performances, for his merits rightfully received a huge number of medals and awards.
