Irakli Andronikov Tells...

2 hrs. 12 min.

Humor & Satire

Language Russian

Author Irakly Andronikov

Narrator Irakly Andronikov

Description

Irakliy Luarsabovich Andronikov (his real surname was Andronikashvili) (1908, St. Petersburg — 1990, Moscow) — writer, literary scholar, master of oral storytelling, People’s Artist of the USSR (1982). Honored Worker of Arts of the RSFSR (1959), Doctor of Philological Sciences (1956).

Since 1935, he has performed with his own oral stories, in which he creates “portraits” of writers, actors, and others—often with a humorous coloring (“Varvara Zakharovna,” “Visiting Uncle,” “The First Time on Stage”).

Andronikov’s literary scholarship works, including archival and investigative ones, are devoted mainly to studying the life and creative path of M. Yu. Lermontov, with whom he was closely connected through his House-Museum (2 Malaya Molchanovka Street), as well as A. S. Pushkin. In his semi-fictional works, Andronikov strives to recreate the very process of archival and textual research (“The Riddle of N. F. I.,” 1938; “The TagiI Find,” 1956, etc.).

In the proposed collection, the sound was “taken off” from Andronikov’s film-concert “Andronikov Tells” (Memories of the Great, an imitation of A. Tolstoy, Kachalov, Marshak, Gorky, Shklovsky, Ostuжеv—plus—miniatures “The First Time on Stage,” “Shalyapin’s Throat”) and “The Riddle of N. F. I.” (literary research on Lermontov).