BRASOV (Barashev) Mikhail V.

28 сентября (10 октября) 1897 (village Barakovo Vyatka province) — 7 сентября 1962 (Astrakhan)

graphic artist of the theatre

From a peasant family. He graduated from the gymnasium in Kazan. She studied at the historical-филологическом faculty of Kazan University (end of 1910-х, did not graduate). As a volunteer in 1919 joined the Red Army in 1920 — demobilized. He continued his studies at the Kazan art-техническом Institute (Aromas, 1921-1924) В. Э. Вильковисской, Н. И. Фешина; graduated with the title artist-практика by lithography.

he Lived in Kazan, Simferopol (from 1927), Astrakhan (from 1933). The participant of the great Patriotic war (1942-1945).

Worked in the techniques of lithography and etching. A landscape painter. The author of the series of etchings "the bottom Volga" (1951, 1960). Worked on poster, ex-libris. Researcher, instructor-литограф (1925), head of the lithographic workshop Argumosa (1925-1926).

As an artist-декоратор collaborated in Caste (Constructively-экспериментальная workshop of the Soviet theater in Kazan); has issued performances "Stenka Razin" В. В. Каменского (1924), "Princess Turandot" К. Гоцци (1925).

After their departure from Kazan (1927) worked in the theatres of Crimea — Simferopol, Sevastopol, Yalta, Kerch. He designed the performances of "mine No. 10" В. Н. Билль-Белоцерковского (1928), "Rails humming" В. М. Киршона (1929) to Simferopol drama theater. In 1930-1933 he worked in theaters of the Far East. In 1933-1962 — the main artist of the Astrakhan drama theatre. С. М. Кирова. He has designed over 150 спектаклей, among them — "Yegor Bulychov" (1934) and "the Last" (1936) А. М. Горького that "Cyrano de Bergerac" Э. Ростана (1938), "Lenin in 1918 году" Т. С. Златогоровой and А. Я. Каплера (1939), "the Kremlin chimes" Н. Ф. Погодина (1941, 1952), "For those who in the sea" Б. А. Лавренева (1946), "blow, wind" Я. Райниса (1952), "Theft" J. London (1955), "the Pious Martha" by Tirso de Molina (1958), "the Living corpse" Л. Н. Толстого (1961), "Leningrad prospect" И. В. Штока (1962) and others.