Volgin Fedor Matveevich

(28.VIII.1888, Nevel - 10.IH.1972, Leningrad)
It first appeared on the stage of Smolensk in 1919, played in the theater is indicative of the Political Administration of the Western Front in a water play Berel O. Dimov, singer of his sadness ". Debut In. was so successful that the next day talking about it the whole city. Decisive role in the formation in. - The actor played the director NI. Orlov. After the disbandment of the army theater played in Perm, Ufa, Kostroma, Nikolaevsk, Ulyanovsk and Astrakhan. Since 1928. again on the stage of the Smolensk Regional Drama Theater. Over 37 years, . held here, . they played nearly 400 different character roles: from the classical repertoire (Schmugar, . Chugunov, . Yusov, . Arkady Schastlivtsev in the play by Alexander Ostrovsky "Guilty Without Guilt", . "Wolves and Sheep", . "A Profitable Post", . "Forest"); Perchihin, . Vukol, . Kostylev (in plays M,
. Gorky's "Philistines," "Jackass," "The Lower Depths"); Raspluev in "Wedding Krechinsky AV. Sukhovo-Kobylin, Millett in tragedy F. Schiller's "Intrigue and Love" and others, in the plays of contemporary repertoire (Vorontsov to play by K. Simon "It will be" the play Frol Baev N. Wirth's Land ", the play Polezhaev Rakhmanova" Restless old age ", etc.. For several years headed the Smolensk branch of the WTO, Regional Trade Union Council of Arts, was elected deputy of the Regional Council.

Lit.: Smolensk Almanac, 1947. - Kn. 3. - P. 296.