Lenski Dmitry Timofeevich

(1805 - 1860).
Finished the Moscow Academy of practical, engaged in trade, in 1824. entered the scene on the role of husbands and young people. As an actor, Lenski did not have great talent, his playing was intelligent, but lacks expression and monotonous, and only in certain roles (eg, Le Figaro, Molchalin) he enjoyed great success. Many more did Lenski for theater as vaudeville writer. He translated from the French and remade for Russian customs "more than 70 comedies, . operas and musical comedies, . most of which were published in journals 30 and 40-ies, . published separately and are reprinted in collections: "Opera and vaudeville" (M., . 1835 - 1836) and "Theater D.T,
. Lena (St. Petersburg, 1874). Near Kony and P. Karatygin Lenski considered a permanent supplier actors' benefit performance, resulting in his alterations were hasty, often sinned against literariness, but always a success. Deprived of any type, . modeled on the popular stereotype while Scribe, . Lena vaudeville always been clever, . overcrowded allusions to literary and theatrical scene and seasoned successful expressions and biting epithets, . forming part of everyday speech,
. From his musical comedies in 90-ies widely used with success Lev Gurych Sinichkin "," Plain and educated, "" That's the pill "," Hamlet and Ophelia Sidorych Kuzminichna "and other. Lenski was a gifted versifier, master of epigrams, caustic and witty retort. His improvisations, anecdotes, jokes, memories are full of actors of the time, for example, P. Karatygina (cm. "Russian Antiquity", 1880, October), Alekseev (St. Petersburg, 1894). Much of the credit Lena - transfer songs Beranger, placed in the "Repertoire" Pesotsky, "Pantheon" and other journals. - See. "Old and New Russia" (1879, No. 5), "Historical Journal" (1894,? 8); "Russian Antiquities" (1886,? 4). A. Polyakov.