Buinitsky Ignat Biography

As a land surveyor Ignat Buinitsky founded the first professional Wikimedia Theater in Belarus. The son of a poor gentry, who had an exotic name of Tarquinius theophile, in no case should be submitted to the actors and directors - the theatrical fun considered the noble estate low. At the end of the Polytechnic School, the young Buinitsky, after graduating from the Polytechnic School, was the solid but boring work of the surveyor.

But it turned out that the young and charming landowner Ignat is able to combine the main profession with an ardent enthusiasm of the theater. The theater eventually turned out to be previously unprecedented, for the Belarusian in everything - from language to songs with dancing. However, the idea of ​​the Belarusian theater by the moment when Buinitsky materialized it with brilliance, rushed for a long time in the Belarusian air.

This was also facilitated by the works of ethnographers, who in many described and published songs, proverbs and sayings of the Belarusian people. Ignat himself also noticed during his travels at work, how folk art differs in the Polotsk district from Oshmyansky County, in Mogilevsky County from Novogrudsky County. Buynitsky, sociable in nature, not only visited peasant evening peasants, but the mastic was also dancing there.

And not only to dance - the land surveyor had a wonderful voice, bass baritone, he not only knew many Belarusian songs of the calendar cycle - Kupala, Reaper, but also knew how to explain to the artists from the people how they should be performed. The magical power of art captured the temperamental enthusiast already in adulthood, when he was already 45, but captured so that she replaced his family life.

From two marriages at Buinitsky, only daughters were born, with two elders, Vanda and Alena, he began to collect his troupe in the year. The second wife, Maria Anoshko, the gentry from the Mogilev region, did not look at such a “disgrace” and left her wife, saying in his hearts: “Dipped Pan Ignat, I cannot look at these peasants' dances.” Very soon it turned out that not so much the abandoned husband was fooled as the audience, with great interest, leaving the bright and funny ideas of the tireless Buinitsky and his associates.

Impozanten was primarily the head of the troupe himself - medium height, black -haired, with gray temples and a colorful mustache. In M in Polivachi, an amateur troupe appeared, with which "Uncle Ignat" began to actively work out the skills received by him while studying in a private dramatic studio in Vilna. The director from Buinitsky turned out to be inventive: his performances started by Belarusian verses, followed by the dramatic part, where the creations of Eliza Ozeshko, Anton Chekhov, the Kropyvnitsky brand, and closer to the end, were located, and all the incendiary dances were crowned closer to the end, which was sometimes invited to the most honorable public.

Starting to speak with six pairs of dancers, Buinitsky created a constant troupe from the year, which exceeded fifty artists: 13 chorists and 15 actors accompanied a dozen dance pairs. The choir and dancers were recruited from talented peasants, but the noticeable faces of Belarusian culture visited the actors. Under the pseudonym, M. Krapivikha was the famous poetess Aunt Alois Pashkevich, who danced perfectly, performed dramatic and comedic roles.

The young Vladislav Stankevich, who would become the wife of Yanka Kupala, miraculously sang and incendiaryly. The performances with six pairs of dancers began, but very soon the troupe grew to fifty artists per year, at the best time of his theater, Buinitsky with his artists toured in St. Petersburg and Warsaw, Vilna and Polotsk, Slutsk and Nedvizh, Lyakhovichich and Disney.

The reception was warm everywhere. Here are newspaper impressions of the performance in St. Petersburg: “As Buinitsky came out with his dancers and peasants - Dudar, the Tsymbalist and the violinist - Belarusians, turning in a simple way, so they immediately took everything with delight. And when Buinitsky and his daughter went to Lyavonikha, and followed by a series of claps with girls, as they began to tune, so all public.

Eight thousand people, as she hit her hands, shouted "bravo, bravo, Belarusians! I never saw anywhere that the Petersburgers liked it, like Belarusian dances ... ”The success at first had not only a creative, but also a commercial component. So, in Warsaw in February, the spectators of the first two rows took 3 rubles 50 kopecks at that time, who wanted to look from the latter, the pleasure of getting to the ruble, just come in the hall, just come in the hall.

It was for 70 kopecks. Buinitsky did not offend his artists and paid them a ruble per day, paying along the way all the costs of travel and accommodation.

At the same time, no special delights from peasant actors were required - they should not dance not memorized, but exactly as they danced on rural evening. The end of a beautiful story was sad. In m, the troupe was dismissed for financial reasons.Soon the First World War began, and in September of the revolutionary year, the Buinitsky drafted into the army died of typhoid, although almost immediately there was a legend that he died on stage during the dance.

But the case of the "Uncle Ignat" was not lost - in the same participation in Minsk, a partnership of Belarusian drama and comedy appeared, on the basis of which a professional theater in Belarus arose.