Samoilov Sergey Biography

St. Petersburg - no later than managing the Suzunsky medical tanker by the middle of the XIX century. Barnaul was already recognized by the capital of mining in Siberia and was known as a cultural and enlightened city. Famous travelers who came to study Altai and stopped in Barnaul spoke of him as an “oasis in the desert”, “a quiet corner of St. Petersburg”, not ceasing to be surprised at the “Western European way of life”, the spiritual and cultural appearance of the city, lost in the deaf Siberian places.

The theater was the main aesthetic affection of Barnaul society. The amateur theater troupe formed by this time consisted of mountain officers, “noble lovers” who devoted their leisure to theatrical art. In his memoirs, the famous Russian traveler P. Semenov-Tyan-Shansky, who lived in the winter. A passionate fan and expert on theatrical art, P. Semenov Tian-Shansky speaks of the theater of the Altai Mountain Assembly to the most excellent degree, especially noting those "wonderful stage talents that stand out many of the members of the Barnaul society." Sergey Vasilievich Samoilov was born in the city of their family was known as the first acting dynasty, whose members became famous on the stage of the Imperial Alexandrinsky Theater of the XIX century.

Despising all their children, the opera artists Vasily Mikhailovich and Sofya Vasilievna took care of obtaining a brilliant education. Despite the strict patriarchal’s way, the house was filled with mutual love, joy and warmth. A large number of different guests have always been accepted in it. Sergey, the fifth child in the family, fate also foreshadowed a large theatrical career.

But, having finished the St. Petersburg Mountain Cadet Corps, he chose a path of a mining engineer. For many years he worked as an assistant to the manager of the Loktevsky silver -melting plant in Altai. The mining business Sergey Vasilievich was not alienated by family traditions and was among the most talented actors of the noble amateur mining theater in the city of Samoilov’s devotion to theatrical art, the theatrical art was also higher than all because he was connected with considerable deprivations and, possibly, significant expenses: the nearest center of cultural life of G.

Barnaul from the Suzun factory was beyond miles. Sergei Vasilievich Samoilov was among the first Altai acquaintances of the famous writer Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, who several times came to the Altai mountain plants and to Barnaul from Semipalatinsk, where he was serving a link. In the memoirs of Fedor Mikhailovich, you can more than once meet the name of Sergei Samoilov: “The winter season was revived by amateur performances in the beautiful building of the Barnaul Theater.

Many of the members of the Barnaul society stood out by their remarkable stage talents. A completely first -class comic was a minor engineer Samoilov, the brother of the famous Alexandrinsky actor, who even surpassed his older brother with his natural stage talent ... ” These words are one of the testimonies of the version that the comedy “Dream Dream”, conceived by Dostoevsky in Siberia, could be intended for the Barnaul scene, and the main role in it-Prince K.

Unfortunately, this did not come out of the pen of Dostoevsky, and the Barnaul theatrical stages were not destined to enter the history of the first setting of Dostoevsky’s play. The amateur theater of the Altai Mountain District, which lasted more than years, gained Barnaul the glory of the Siberian Athens. And not small contribution to its aesthetic development was brought by the Suzun managers.

It is known that Sergei Vasilievich Samoilov died no later than the city of more accurate information about the time and place of death today has not been identified. Lieutenant Colonel was awarded the Order of St. Stanislav II Art. Emelyanova State Archive of the Altai Territory. Mint".