Prov Mihailovich Sadovskii
Пров Михайлович Садовский
Russian dramatic actor, born Prov Mikhailovich ERMILOV (Ермилов) on 11/ 23
October 1818 at Livnii (Orel province), Russia.
Raised by his maternal uncles, Grigorii and Dmitrii Sadovskii, who were well-known
provincial actors, Prov Emilov adopted their surname for his stage debut in
Tula, aged just fourteen. After performing in various provincial cities, he
arrived in Moscow in 1838 and was soon hired by the Imperial Theatres, where
he remained for the rest of his career,
He became one of the foremost interpretors of the plays of Aleksandr Ostrovskii, and became the
patriarch of a three-generation theatrical dynasty based at the Malyu Theatre.
Tchaikovsky knew Sadovskii through his acquaintance with Aleksandr Ostrovskii
in the mid 1860s, and he is known to have sought the actor's advice concerning
the use of a folk-song in his
Symphony No. 1 (1866).
Prov Sadovskii died on 16/28 July 1872 in Moscow, aged 53.
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