Hobby of reading
Every day as a child, the future actor had to deceive his aunt, who sheltered him with the condition that he could live, but he should not hope for food. Therefore, the boy had to not only study, but also work at the factory. But he left early, telling his aunt that he was going to the factory, and he spent two hours every day in the library reading.
All his life, Konstantin Sorokin read a lot and loved to do it. The actor had an excellent memory, so he could easily quote any text, even philosophical or historical.
Theater career
Immediately after finishing his studies at the theater studio, Konstantin Sorokin, whose actor the whole country knows and loves, began serving in theaters in different cities: Arkhangelsk, Pskov and others. This went on for three years. During this time he was able to play approximately 150 roles. Since 1933, Konstantin Nikolaevich became an actor in the music hall and miniature theater of the city of Leningrad. In 1942 he moved to the theater-studio of a film actor.
A short course in history. Pitirim Sorokin
On January 23 (old style), 1889, Pitirim Aleksandrovich Sorokin, a great thinker the 20th century, Russian-American sociologist and cultural scientist, one of the founders of the theories of social stratification and social mobility, was born.
The path to science
Pitirim was born into the family of a church restorer, a master of gold and silversmiths. After the death of his mother in 1894, Pitirim and his brother remained with their father, and together they wandered around the villages in search of work. After graduating from a second-class parochial school with honors in 1904, Pitirim, on recommendations, entered the church-teacher theological seminary in the village of Khrenovo, Kostroma province. In 1906 he was already a member of the Socialist Revolutionary Party. For revolutionary activities in the same year he received a three-month prison sentence. Soon Sorokin moved to St. Petersburg, then participated in ethnographic expeditions, returned, from 1910 to 1914 he studied at St. Petersburg University at the Faculty of Law, and later taught himself.
Revolution
The February events of 1917 in Russia led Sorokin to the post of editor of the Socialist Revolutionary newspaper Delo Naroda. He participated in the work of the First All-Russian Congress of Soviets of Peasant Deputies, was elected a member of the Central Executive Committee, and got married. Pitirim Aleksandrovich met the October Revolution reprehensibly. From the Socialist Revolutionary Party, he became a member of the deputies of the Constituent Assembly - the last hope of the revolutionary forces for the democratic path of development of the country. Sorokin fought against the Bolsheviks, but became disillusioned with the activities of the Social Revolutionaries and wrote a letter of repentance to Lenin, which saved the scientist from execution. However, it was no longer possible for a serious sociologist who opposed Lenin to remain in Russia. In 1922, Pitirim Sorokin was expelled from the Land of the Soviets on the Philosophical Steamship. Together with his family, he settled in the United States, where in 1931 he became the founder of the sociology department at Harvard University and headed it until 1942. He served as a professor at the university until 1959, and in 1965 became president of the American Sociological Association.
Heritage
Over the years of his life, Sorokin created the Russian school of sociology of criminal law and criminology, and had a tremendous influence on the American school of sociology and on the development of this science as a whole. He proposed to determine the criminality of an act by the experiences of the subject of the act. Sorokin paid great attention to the relationship between morality and law, the concept of nationality and issues of social organization. During the Great Patriotic War, Sorokin created a charitable foundation to help the Soviet Union, and one of the central ideas of the great humanist (what should save humanity) was “altruistic love and behavior.” Pitirim Alexandrovich died on February 10, 1968.
Film career
In 1936, a cinematic biography of Konstantin Sorokin began. In the film “Dubrovsky” directed by Alexander Ivanovsky, he played Paramoshka. After that, every year he starred in several films at once, but most often these roles were small and episodic. That is why he is considered a master of the episode, since the actor Sorokin, even in his small roles, was magnificent and talented: it was impossible not to notice him.
That is why, most often, actor Konstantin Sorokin, whose biography is eventful, played in films either priests, or small roles of athletes, or sentries. And if in the movies he was still simple and funny, then in life everyone knew him as a wise man, a philosopher.
Many directors offered the talented actor only roles in comedy films. In 1942, in the film “Kotovsky” directed by Alexander Faintzimmer, the actor Konstantin Sorokin played a young orderly who does not want to part with his beautiful forelock. And when the nurse cuts off a piece of forelock, he is simply ready to tear her to pieces. He calls his comrades who have shaved their heads idiots, but only until Kotovsky himself hears this and shows him his head. And then he also cuts his hair bald.
In 1950, the talented and gifted actor Sorokin starred in the film “Generous Summer” directed by Boris Barnet. After the war, soldier Pyotr Sereda returns home, where, having met shock worker Oksana Podpruzhenko, he immediately falls in love. Soon Peter becomes an accountant on this collective farm, and his friend Nazar becomes the chairman. But suddenly Peter begins to be jealous of Oksana for his friend. In this film, the charming actor Sorokin played the head of the collective farm, Philip Fedorovich Teslyuk.
Teslyuk has a lot to do, but the scene where he bought a stud bull is interesting. Before the actor, specialists held this bull on sticks, and the actor himself quickly and without sticks approached the animal, although the specialists tried to stop him. The director recalled that actor Sorokin never gave advice on how to film it, but every shot with him made Boris Vasilyevich laugh.
In 1956, the talented actor Sorokin starred in the film “Different Fates” directed by Leonid Lukov. Yesterday's schoolchildren Tanya, Styopa, Fedya and Sonya enter adulthood, but they do it in different ways. Tanya chooses the handsome Fedya, and then cheats on him with a famous composer. And Sonya sacrifices everything in her life, recovering from Stepa, whom Tanya rejected. In this film, Konstantin Nikolaevich plays the head of the personnel department, Pyotr Petrovich. The hero of actor Sorokin is friends with the director of a large factory, which allows him to dominate people.
In 1965, Konstantin Sorokin starred in the famous film “The Cook” directed by Edmond Keosayan. The main character confesses his love to the lively girl Pavlina, without choosing a place or time. He gets hit on the head with a ladle from a girl, and soon everyone on the farm learned about this story. Therefore, the young Cossack woman was forced to leave her home and go to the field, where she got a job as a cook. But soon the lover Stepan Kazanets also arrives there.
Actor Sorokin played his role as Plum’s grandfather in an unusual and talented way. The actor turned out to be an unusual lyrical and comic figure. He likes to drink, lie, and will not miss any girl. He often tells his fellow villagers stories that are hard not to believe. But many of them turn out to be invented by Grandfather Sliva himself. It is Grandfather Sliva who starts all the gossip in the village. But at the end of the film, his gossip and stories are no longer interesting to anyone.
The role of actor Sorokin in the film “Guardian” directed by Albert Mortchyan and Edgar Khodzhikyan turned out to be fun. This film was released in 1970. The main character Misha Koroedov does not want to do anything, but at the same time dreams of getting everything from life. One day he meets a pretty waitress Lyuba, who invites him to become the guardian of an elderly woman who is supposedly constantly sick and is about to die. The most interesting thing is that Antonina Ivanovna has no relatives, and therefore she wants to leave her entire household, as well as her house on the seashore, to her guardian.
Mikhail begins to look after his grandmother, but it turns out that she is fond of sports, forces him to work constantly, and she is also an honorary walrus of the city. In this film, the talented actor Konstantin Sorokin played moonshiner Mitry Prokopych Samorodov. After exposing the old woman, Mikhail and his friend turn to him. They are surprised that, having moved into a one-room apartment, the moonshiner took with him only a moonshine still.
SOROKIN, PITIRIM ALEXANDROVICH
SOROKIN, PITIRIM ALEXANDROVICH
(1889–1968), Russian sociologist and cultural scientist.
Born on February 23 (4), 1889 in the village of Turya, Vologda province. In 1914 he graduated from the Faculty of Law of St. Petersburg University. Among his teachers was the famous sociologist M.M. Kovalevsky. In the same year, Sorokin published his first work, Crime and Punishment, Feat and Reward.
Sociological study on the basic forms of social behavior and morality .
The ideas of O. Comte and G. Spencer had a decisive influence on his views (Sorokin himself called himself an “empirical positivist”). In the work Crime and Punishment...
crime is considered as a result of the fundamental heterogeneity and even “discontinuity” of the system of social relations, the inconsistency of “patterns of behavior” of different social groups.
In the future, humanity is able to solve the problem of crime by moving to a qualitatively different level of social integration and harmony. Also on topic:
SOCIOLOGY
After the February Revolution, Sorokin edited the newspaper “The Will of the People” (the organ of the right Socialist Revolutionaries), was the personal secretary of A.F. Kerensky, and a deputy of the Constituent Assembly. He taught at Petrograd University, and in 1920 he was elected professor in the department of sociology. In April 1922 he defended his thesis System of Sociology
.
In September 1922 he was expelled from the country along with a large group of Russian cultural figures. For some time he taught at the Russian University in Prague. Published the work The Current State of Russia
(1923).
Since 1924 – professor at the University of Minnesota (USA). In subsequent years, he published a number of works that brought him worldwide recognition ( Social mobility
,
Modern sociological theory
, etc.).
In 1931 he founded the sociology department at Harvard University and headed it until 1942. In 1964, Sorokin was elected president of the American Sociological Association. The scientist's last significant work is devoted to Russia: The main features of the Russian nation in the twentieth century
(1967). Among Sorokin’s students are major American sociologists, such as R. Merton, R. Mills, T. Parsons and others.
In the second half of the 1920s, disillusioned with the positivist model of evolution, Sorokin developed the theory of sociocultural cycles, which was substantiated in his works Social and Cultural Dynamics
(4 vols., 1937–1941) and
The Crisis of Our Time
(1941).
Other works of the scientist are also devoted to the problem of the typology of “crises” in history: Sociocultural causality, space, time
(1943),
Society, culture and personality: their structure and dynamics.
System of General Sociology (1947),
Social Philosophy in an Age of Crisis
(1950), etc. At the end of the 1940s, Sorokin was increasingly attracted to problems of moral relations; in 1949 he created the Research Center on Creative Altruism at Harvard.
His research-manifestos are devoted to the role of love and altruism in human relationships: Altruistic Love: A Study of American
“
Good Neighbors
”
and Christian Saints
(1950),
The Ways and Power of Love
(1954), etc.
Sorokin always considered the subject of sociology to be the interaction of social groups operating in different historical and cultural circumstances. A sociologist solves the problem of determining the causes of various types of social behavior and must take into account a variety of motivations, influences, reactions (“pluralism of facts”). According to the theory of “social mobility” developed by Sorokin, any society has a complex structure and is inevitably stratified according to many criteria - economic, professional, ethnic, political, etc., however, social groups and individual groups are constantly changing their social position (“vertical” and “horizontal” » mobility). Vertical mobility (increasing social status) is an indicator of the degree of “openness” of the social system. In a “closed” society, the dynamics of social life are reduced to a minimum, which inevitably leads “closed” systems to crisis. In the historical process, Sorokin believed, there is a periodic change of various “supersystems”, each of which is characterized by a special cultural and historical “style”, a unique “value system”. The scientist identified three types of “supersystems”: “ideational”, in which altruism, mysticism and asceticism play a decisive role; “sensual”, in which urban features and intellectualism predominate; finally, “idealistic, characterized by a combination of features of the first two types. History is a sociocultural process, the norm of which is the dynamics of value guidelines, their change and the constant search for new “ideal goals.”
Sorokin died in Winchester (USA) on February 11, 1968.
"Air Cabby"
In 1943, the talented actor Sorokin starred in the film “Air Cabby” directed by Herbert Rappaport. At the beginning of the war, pilot Baranov falls in love with Natasha Kulikova, who is just starting her career as an opera singer. Ivan Baranov is not young, but he still met her when he was forced to land the plane. But the girl’s mother is against this marriage, because she believes that the best husband for her daughter would be Svetlovidov, a famous singer. But mom’s opinion is not interesting to young people and people in love.
But when the war begins, pilot Baranov asks to be transferred to fighter aircraft, but management refuses him. When he transports ammunition and ends up in the rear of the Germans, he loses his orientation due to thick fog and cannot fly out, and only the voice of his beloved woman helps him in this situation. In this film, actor Sorokin plays the role of theater administrator Zadunaisky. He is arrogant and not always predictable.
Of all the actors, Zadunaisky singles out the tenor Anania Palych, whom he takes care of and tries to help in his love for the aspiring singer. But this same tenor already has a large crowd of fans. To save his ward from all the annoying girls, he tries to dress like an opera singer so that they constantly confuse them.
The artist's childhood and youth
Family of Viktor Sorokin. From left to right: brother Alexey, Victor, mother Lidia Nikolaevna, brother Boris, father Semyon Pavlovich, father's sister Lisa. 1915. Moscow. Photo: fund of the artist Viktor Sorokin / viktorsorokin.ru
Victor Sorokin. Self-portrait (fragment). 1960. Lipetsk Regional Art Museum, Lipetsk
Viktor Sorokin (center) with students. 1952. Yelets, Lipetsk region. Photo: fund of the artist Viktor Sorokin / viktorsorokin.ru
Viktor Sorokin was born in Moscow. His father was an officer and served in the technical troops, responsible for delivering ammunition to battle sites. The mother came from the merchant class, she looked after the household and raised the children. Viktor Sorokin was the eldest child, after him sons Alexey and Boris were born. The family lived in a large two-story house opposite the Rizhsky railway station along with the grandfather and uncle of the future artist. On the first floor there was a store owned by the parents, on the second there were living rooms. In addition, the family owned several apartment buildings and a tray factory in the Moscow region.
The father had a car, and on Sundays he took his sons to the circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard. In the evenings, Viktor Sorokin painted. He saw paints at the age of five: the artist’s aunts painted pictures and often painted with their nephew.
In 1917, her mother fell ill with typhus and died. A few months later, my father died: he left to arrange supplies for the front and did not return. Three aunts took in the children - each took a child. Viktor Sorokin moved to his mother’s relative in the village of Teply Stan not far from Moscow. In 1920, he went to a local school, but completed only four classes there. The family decided to send Sorokin to the Sukhanovo orphanage: the relatives did not have the opportunity to provide a good education, and former Moscow nobles taught at the boarding school. The institution was located in the former estate of the Volkonsky princes.
The setting of this estate meant a lot to our upbringing. Something has been preserved in it from the former owners... <...> In our orphanage we had our own cows and our own horses. One dappled gray one, beautiful, loved being treated to sugar. They took us to the Art Theater, I don’t remember which play. And before that - an excursion to the Red October confectionery factory.
Victor Sorokin
When Viktor Sorokin turned 16 years old, he was transferred to the Dzerzhinsky labor commune near Lyubertsy. About two thousand teenagers lived there. In the morning they studied, and in the afternoon they worked for three to four hours in the workshops. The future artist was assigned to a carpentry shop. Sorokin quickly learned to work with wood and even wanted to become a carpenter. However, the first lesson in the painting club changed everything. His friends invited him there. Nikita Khotulev, a student of Ilya Repin, worked with the students. Sokolov wrote: “He played the first role in my destiny: he discovered art for me. He oriented us toward Russian classics, the Tretyakov collection, and Repin.” Khotulev showed how to work with oils and watercolors, and talked a lot about the work of his teacher. On weekends, he took the guys to Moscow to the Tretyakov Gallery.
Soon the commune changed its art teacher. It was the famous artist Boris Ioganson. During the week he gave lectures to students of art departments, and on Saturdays and Sundays he came to Lyubertsy to visit his students. Ioganson singled out four students from the circle and prepared them for admission to art academies. Among them was Viktor Sorokin. In 1937, he passed the entrance exams and became a student at the Moscow Institute of Fine Arts. IN AND. Surikov.
The most significant role of an actor
In the mid-sixties, when the career of a famous and talented actor was slowly approaching completion, Konstantin Sorokin still hoped that something would change in his cinematic life and he would stop playing only comedic characters. That is why in 1964 he gladly agreed to the offer of director Samson Samsonov to star in the film “Three Sisters”.
This time, actor Sorokin got the role of the strange cynic Chebutykin, who was tenderly attached to three sisters. During filming, the talented actor was happy. Subsequently, it was this role that Konstantin Nikolaevich considered the most significant in his life. Nobody else offered him similar roles.
Personal life of Vladimir Sorokin
The writer is married. He was introduced to his wife Irina by a mutual friend when he was 21 years old and she was only 18. They got married a year after they met.
Vladimir Sorokin and his wife Irina
He calls his twin daughters, born in 1983, a “cosmic phenomenon,” noting that they are two separate identical people who represent a single organism: they have similar tastes and feel phenomenally at each other at a distance. Maria studied at the journalism department, Anna at the conservatory.
Vladimir Sorokin and his daughters
In 2020, the documentary film “Weekend,” directed by Masha Sorokina, premiered at the “2morrow/Zavtra” film festival. Previously, she wrote scripts for the films “A Short Course in Military Geography” and “Moscow Region: Terra Incognita.”
Vladimir Sorokin prefers white in clothes
The writer prefers white in interior design and clothing. He loves music of various genres (Wagner, Kozin, rock), cinema (Eisenstein, Romm, Roshal, Kalatozov), literature (Kharms, Rabelais, Tolstoy, Shpanov, Joyce, Pavlenko), loves dogs, skiing, playing ping-pong. pong, cook satsivi, lobio, khash soup and many varieties of cabbage soup. But he doesn’t like the crowd, Putin’s team, football, Soviet rock, “vulgar ladies like Alla Pugacheva.”
Last role
In 1975, the famous actor Sorokin played his last role in the film “Ivan and Columbine” directed by Ivan Chechunov. The main character, Ivan Cheprasov, returns from the army and immediately comes to work in a motorcade. But the boss, seeing that the guy is young, decides to give him an old and ruined car that no one wants to repair. Drivers call this car “Columbine” among themselves.
It was this very “Columbine” that became a test for the young driver, where all the traits of his character were revealed. In this film, Konstantin Nikolaevich got the role of Yegorych.
A comedian with the soul of a tragedian and philosopher
All of the above gives an understanding of how easy comedy roles were for Konstantin Sorokin. And yet he was very proud of his role in the film “Three Sisters,” where director Samson Samsonov saw him in the dramatic role of Doctor Chebutykin. One can only guess how important this was to Sorokin.
Samsonov recalls how easy it was to work with Sorokin. He managed to see not only himself in a certain scene, but all the performers. Behind the scenes, other actors often approached Konstantin Nikolaevich and gave advice on how to improve this or that scene. Despite the fact that the actor had never played a leading role in his life, Samsonov believes that Sorokin in Three Sisters was the soul of the film.
His colleagues on the set of the film “Oleko Dundich” repeatedly told how much Sorokin was respected. They waited for him on the set as if he was playing Oleko himself. Among the epithets that characterized the actor by everyone who was lucky enough to work with him, there seem to be many contradictions: light, but at the same time strict and sharp, witty, but the humor is often daring, simple and at the same time significant.
Many noted the amazing dissonance between his rustic appearance and his deepest “guts.” Konstantin Nikolaevich was essentially an educated person. You could have conversations with him on any topic: literature, history, philosophy, music, painting. Acting professionals believe that Sorokin was the king of the episode.
After all, when you are given the main role, the “jambs” can be corrected in further plots throughout the film, and when the actor only has a few minutes, this is where real acting strength is needed to give your all, to mobilize so that the viewer remembers you forever. No matter how many films he had under his belt, Konstantin Nikolaevich did not hesitate to rehearse the same episode many, many times, although he knew everything from the first take.
Pictures with his participation:
- Dubrovsky;
- Cook;
- Oleko Dundich;
- Kuban Cossacks;
- Taras Shevchenko;
- Air carrier;
- Member of the government;
- Kochubey and others.
Personal life
It is known that Konstantin Sorokin, whose personal life is always interesting to viewers, knew how to beautifully charm women, but at the same time he was always faithful and decent towards them. It was believed that the talented actor was very courteous towards the ladies, and there was even an opinion that he had increased attention to them.
His marital relationship did not work out. But he loved his daughter madly. And despite the fact that he was lonely, he was in no hurry to enter into a new marriage.
The actor died in mid-May 1981 in Moscow. The cause of his death was myocardial infarction. The talented and famous actor Konstantin Sorokin was also buried in Moscow.
Studying at the university and evacuation to Samarkand
Victor Sorokin. Tatar village (fragment). 1939. Art Museum named after. V.S. Sorokina – House of the Master, Lipetsk
Victor Sorokin. Portrait of an elderly woman (fragment). 1940s. Private collection
Victor Sorokin. Mossovet (fragment). 1947. Art Museum named after. V.S. Sorokina – House of the Master, Lipetsk
At the institute, Viktor Sokolov ended up in the studio of the painter Sergei Gerasimov. Here the student learned about French impressionism: Claude Monet, Pierre Renoir, Paul Cezanne. The artist recalled: “The main thing that the institute gave was professionalism. An understanding of painting has come. It was a big school." In the summer, students went to practice in the small Crimean village of Kozy, where they painted landscapes. There, in 1939, Sorokin completed the painting “Tatar Village”. The teachers rated the work with the highest score and sent the work to the All-Union Youth Exhibition.
In the summer of 1941, Viktor Sorokin went on summer vacation to Ukraine to draw sketches. However, within a few days the start of war was announced. The student was immediately sent by train to Moscow. We had to travel on the third shelf: people were evacuated en masse into the interior of the country. In the capital, the artist volunteered for a special brigade. Together with other painters, he painted tree crowns on the roofs of high-rise buildings: in this way the buildings were camouflaged from bombing. However, by the end of October 1941 it became dangerous to remain in Moscow. The Moscow Institute of Fine Arts was evacuated to Samarkand.
Samarkand is a new stage in development. Nature itself posed other painting tasks. In comparison with the lyrical Crimea, everything is different there. Everything is very sharp: the sky is ultramarine, the shadows are black. Central Asia is a dazzling sun. Ancient monuments. The locals are very beautiful in national clothes. Old men, women in burqas. And the market. Different environment, different way of life.
Victor Sorokin
While evacuated, Sorokin wrote “Portrait of an Elderly Woman” and “Samarkand Landscape.” The artist finalized most of the sketches in the capital, where the student returned in 1943. Two years later, he passed his final exams and graduated with honors from the Moscow Institute of Fine Arts.
In the post-war period there were few orders. Paintings on military themes were mainly in demand. But Viktor Sorokin painted landscapes, and his works were not accepted for exhibitions. The painter recalled: “It was difficult to get through the artistic council. There was no need for painting. And I wanted to work in my own way.” Soon after graduating from college, he began having problems with money. The artist took on any part-time job, and in 1946 he got a job as a teacher at a children's art school. At the same time, Sorokin created canvases. In 1947, he painted an oil painting “Mossovet”, in which he depicted the square in front of the administrative building.
