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his heart, the other to his temple, simultaneously pulled the triggers. One bullet went through the heart, the second into the temple, pierced the bone and got stuck. Demidov did not die, but having decided to live, he made every effort to return to an active and full life. He healed himself, inventing special gymnastics. This gives incredible results: sports health, education in the gymnasium and admission to the university (1907). At the age of 20, he created a branch of the St. Petersburg Sports
Society in Ivanovo, for which he developed and successfully applied his program of individual physical and moral training of athletes. In 1913 he graduated from the medical faculty of the
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ideology" boiled down to far-reaching conclusions: "immediately intervene and stop such pedagogical activity." Demidov was forced to resign from all positions, and his name was completely excluded from the history of the Moscow Art
Theater and the history of Russian theater studies. With the outbreak of World War II, Demidov worked in evacuation at various theaters on the territory of the USSR, having briefly returned to Moscow (1945-1946), he was soon forced to leave the capital due to incessant denunciations and persecutions. departure to Sakhalin.
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while, he helped me develop this tricky and complex question about acting. At the moment, I think, this is one of the few who theoretically and practically knows the "system". He spent four years in my opera studio as a director and teacher. For two years he headed the School of the Art
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In 1921, he organized the 4th studio of the Moscow Art
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After the death of
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Society, created by his father. In this theater, my father was not only the founder, but also a playwright, director and actor. The plays written by him from folk life were published, played at theaters and approved by Ostrovsky himself. Vasily Viktorovich did not have a special education;
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In 1949, Demidov was forced to return to Moscow due to a serious illness. He suffered several heart attacks in a row, but, contrary to the forecasts of doctors, he is once again getting back on his feet. The last three years of his life, he devotes all his time to work on the book and attempts to
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Since 1911 (while still a student at the university), Demidov began to attend the classes and rehearsals of
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the creative process of acting into elements, as it was meant by the Stanislavsky system, was not fruitful, and started looking for the different approach to acting. His main idea was to find ways to integrate an actor into the creative process on a whole.
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