Anatoly Marchevsky: biography and personal life

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

The circus building can always be recognized from afar. Highly raised round dome. Huge shop windows and bright, visible at a great distance advertising. Cheerful music and a sense of celebration that begins long before you enter the main circus entrance.

But you don't recognize circus performers on the street. In a hurrying, bustling crowd of passers-by, it is difficult to distinguish a person who will put on a bright suit and enter the arena tonight. Acrobats and trainers, jugglers, illusionists and clowns. Especially clowns - they always arouse keen interest among the audience. What should be a person who can make laugh or make the whole room feel sad?

Meet Anatoly Marchevsky! A circus performer whose life from childhood to this day has been completely devoted to circus art and spectators.

Childhood

He was born on April 9, 1948 in Ukraine, in the city of Sverdlovsk. It was a small mining town in which all life was subordinated to one goal - coal mining. Anatoly Marchevsky does not remember his father. Mom and older brother - that's the whole family. Lived hard. Mom had to work hard to raise her two sons.

She was returning from work when her sons were already asleep. She left early - the boys were still sleeping. Such a load undermined her he alth - her mother began to get sick. At the age of 14, Anatoly got a job working at a mine - cleaning carts from coal dust.

What should a teenager do in a mining town? One cinema, a dance floor in the park, the House of Culture. He was fond of radio engineering, thinking about getting a technical education. And rehearsed in the amateur circus. He hardly expected that the circus would become his life's work. Only it was in the circus team that he was noticed and invited to work in the Kyiv directorate "Circus on Stage". The young man did not think for long - after all, it would not be harder in the circus than in a coal mine. The first step towards the big arena was made. Fourteen-year-old Anatoly Marchevsky became an artist in the Circus on Stage team.

"Circus on stage": first steps in clowning

You need to understand what a circus team that works on stage is. Daily transfers, loading and unloading of props, performances… An artist in such a team quickly becomes a generalist. Juggle, perform in acrobatic numbers, come on as a substitute and help fellow program members. Anatoly had good physical training and already mastered several circus genres. But when he needed to replace the clown, he realized - this is a completely different level of artistry.

The first performance was chaotic. Marchevsky, no longer a novice on the stage, was confused and did not even remember how he worked out his reprise. ButI remembered laughter in the auditorium. The verdict of experienced artists was categorical - clowning, Tolya, this is not yours. But he was already sick with "laughing". I decided firmly - I will be a clown. And Anatoly Marchevsky goes to Moscow. His goal is a circus school.

Step into the profession

The State School of Circus and Variety Art is an educational institution that occupied a special position in the Soviet Union. A competition of 150 people per place - any prestigious university in the country could envy such an influx of applicants. A provincial with a Ukrainian dialect and mediocre knowledge had practically no chance to pass the exams the first time. But good preparation, mastery of several genres and the experience that Anatoly Marchevsky acquired in the Circus on Stage team were noticed by the examination committee. He entered the school.

It can be said that Anatoly was lucky twice that year. He entered, and Yuri Pavlovich Belov, a director who worked with the legendary clown Leonid Yengibarov, became his leader. He taught the young artist the main thing - there should be a sense in clown reprises. It is not enough to make the auditorium laugh by filling in the gaps between performances. Laughter in the auditorium is not an end in itself for a carpetman. Marchevsky remembered the advice of an experienced teacher. All his reprises carried a semantic load that made the audience not only laugh, but also think. In 1970, the young artist graduated from the circus school. Now it is no longer "Circus on Stage", but the All-Union Association "Soyuzgostsirk" hired a carpet clownAnatoly Marchevsky.

All evening at the arena

And now, already in different cities of a large country, posters with a new name begin to appear - Anatoly Marchevsky. The clown, whose biography in this profession was just beginning, traveled around the Soviet Union. No wonder the circus system is called the "conveyor line". Constant movement is the unchanging state of the circus performer.

It is not known how the artistic fate would have developed, but then chance came into play. The famous Yuri Nikulin, who was on tour in Kyiv, was forced to urgently leave for Moscow. An unknown young clown was offered to replace him. Anatoly Marchevsky found himself in a difficult situation. The audience came "to Nikulin" and that the famous clown would not be, they learned only in the circus. The first part of the young carpety acted in complete silence. The audience didn't get it. But youth, charm and talent were able to melt the hostility. After the intermission, the audience gave up - laughter and applause accompanied each reprise.

And Nikulin did not forget about the young carpetman who replaced him in Kyiv. After some time, he called Marchevsky and offered to come to Moscow. Such an invitation from the great clown meant recognition. Only the best artists performed at the capital's arenas. From now on, Anatoly Marchevsky entered this circle.

Life in a circus

If you don't know Anatoly Pavlovich at all, you can say that life spoiled him. Awards at prestigious circus festivals inFrance, Belgium, Monte Carlo. At 36, he was awarded the title of People's Artist of the Russian Federation. Awarded with government awards and prizes. It would seem that life is good. In his profession, Anatoly Marchevsky conquered almost all the peaks. But in 1994 he accepts an unexpected offer - to become the director of the circus in Yekaterinburg.

From this moment on, a popular and recognized artist becomes a business executive. He restores the circus and the hotel for artists, is engaged in construction and landscaping. The problems of the director of the circus are completely different from the worries of the artist. From now on, he is responsible for a large team. For several years, Anatoly Marchevsky, whose biography is now firmly fused with the Urals, was able to make the best circus arena in Russia out of his circus. As a recognition of directorial merits - election to the post of Chairman of the Board of Directors of circuses included in the system of the Russian State Circus Company.

Creativity never ends: a new stage

It is not for nothing that it is believed that the circus is not a profession, but a way of life. Household concerns could not distract the director from the art itself, for which the circus lives. Only now Anatoly Marchevsky does not go to the arena every evening. His work has become wider, larger. And the position obliges - director - artistic director. The Yekaterinburg Circus has become a stage where performances are born and festivals are held.

For the first time in Russia - the World Clown Festival. Since 2008the best clowns of the planet meet at the arena of the circus in Yekaterinburg. Now Anatoly Pavlovich invites artists. Touring in his circus is a recognition of a high level of skill. For the sake of such an invitation, the most famous circus artists are ready to reconsider their tour schedule. Because an invitation to work in the Marchevsky circus means conquering a new professional height.

Not only in the arena

In Yekaterinburg, the work of the circus director did not go unnoticed. Interesting circus programs, new performances, the International Festival - all this has increased the popularity of the circus in the city. And also a museum, a children's circus studio, television programs. Marchevsky became an iconic figure in the cultural life of not only the millionth city, but also Russia. Since 2000, Anatoly Pavlovich has been a deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the region. And in 2008, another honorary resident appeared in Yekaterinburg - Anatoly Marchevsky. Personal life, previously divided between the circus and the family, has now taken on a social burden. Although for a passionate person, the emergence of new responsibilities is an opportunity to improve the life around him.

Personal

Marchevsky was married only once. He has a son Ruslan and three daughters: Veronica, Olesya and Alena. The youngest is now only 13 years old. And Ruslan followed in his father's footsteps and became a circus performer. Now he holds the post of Deputy Director of the State Circus. Filatov in Yekaterinberg.

Life in a circus

WhateverAnatoly Pavlovich did it - he does it with soul. His authority in the circus world is indisputable. His opinion can become the ultimate truth. It seems that time has no power over this person. And the stormy, hasty, informative 21st century remains somewhere beyond the threshold of the circus, in which one person firmly and confidently rules - Anatoly Marchevsky. Family, circus colleagues, artists and just spectators expect new ideas and interesting performances from him. They are sure that as long as there is Marchevsky in the circus, the circus will live.