Ivan Kavaleridze

Ivan Petrovych Kavaleridze (Ukrainian Іван Петрович Кавалерідзе; 13 April [O.S. 1 April] 1887 – 3 December 1978) was a Ukrainian - Soviet sculptor, filmmaker, film director, playwright and screenwriter.

Ivan Kavaleridze
BornApril 13 [O.S. April 1] 1887
Ladanskyi, Kharkov Governorate, Russian Empire
DiedDecember 3, 1978 (1978-12-04) (aged 91)
Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR
OccupationSculptor, writer, filmmaker
LanguageUkrainian

Life
The grave of Ivan Kavaleridze at Baikowe Cemetery.

Kavaleridze was born in Ladanskyi (now Novopetrivka, Romny Raion, Sumy Oblast, Ukraine).[1] He descended from a Georgian family transplanted by a Russian general into Ukraine in the middle of the 19th century.[2]

From 1907 to 1909, Kavaleridze studied at the Kyiv Art School; from 1909 to 1910, he was an art student at the Imperial Academy of Arts; from 1910 to 1911, he studied with Naum Aronson, in Paris.[3] By 1910, he was noted for running his own amateur theater company in Romny.[4] Kavaleridze also sculpted a marble monument to Rus saints in 1911 at Volodymyr Street. It was restored in 1996 after it was taken down by the Communists in 1934.[5] In 1918 to 1920, he created monuments to Taras Shevchenko and Gregory Skovoroda.[6] Shevchenko's statue, which was erected opposite Kyiv University, became a location for nationalist demonstrations during the 1960s and 1980s.[5]

From 1928 to 1933, he worked as an artist, writer and director in the Odessa film studio, and from 1934 and 1941 in Kiev film studio. In 1936, Kawaleridze released the screen adaptation of Mykola Lysenko's Natalka Poltavka.[7] It was the first film-opera in the Soviet cinema.[7] From 1957 to 1962, he was a director at the Dovzhenko film studio.

He is buried at the Baikove Cemetery.[3][8]

References
  1. "Кавалерідзе Іван Петрович - Енциклопедії-. сторінка:0". www.ukrcenter.com. Archived from the original on 2010-12-28. Retrieved 2021-02-24.
  2. Kavaleridze, Ivan (1988). Сборник статей и воспоминаний [Collection of papers and memoirs] (in Russian). Kyiv. p. 158.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  3. Кавалерідзе Іван Петрович — Енциклопедія Сучасної України. ISBN 9789660220744. Retrieved 2021-02-24. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
  4. Rollberg, Peter (2016). Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema, Second Edition. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. p. 672. ISBN 978-1-4422-6841-8.
  5. Wilson, Andrew (2015). The Ukrainians: Unexpected Nation, Fourth Edition. New Haven: Yale University Press. p. 224. ISBN 978-0-300-21725-4.
  6. "Кавалерідзе Іван". Бібліотека українського мистецтва (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2021-02-24.
  7. Egorova, Tatʹi︠a︡na K. (2013). Soviet Film Music: An Historical Survey. New York: Routledge. p. 59. ISBN 978-3-7186-5911-1.
  8. "КАВАЛЕРІДЗЕ ІВАН ПЕТРОВИЧ". resource.history.org.ua. Retrieved 2021-02-24.


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