you are: I.A.Dmitrievsky

Appearing on stage, Dmitrevsky amazed spectators with the skill. As well as all good actors of theatre of classicism, he was able to read perfectly verses, knew theatrical receptions which expressed certain conditions of soul: anger, pleasure, surprise. The scenic recitation which M.V.Lomonosova's literary activity has prepared century of Russia, Century To Trediakovsky and And. P.Sumarokov, it has been finished by it to perfection. Dmitrevsky possessed transformation gift. Contemporaries told, that in Moliere's comedy ' Amfitrion ', having changed a red scarf on white, Dmitrevsky so changed countenance, as if before the spectator there was other person. In a hall ' trembled with horror: at execution Dmitrevsky roles Sinava in tragedy ' Sinav and Truvor ' when there was shade Truvora - Dmitrevsky were read by a long monologue... Moving with the chair back as though pursued by this shade, also ended, rising on tiptoe '. Unlike F. Volkova which possessed ' mad ' temperament, Dmitrevsky has always been counterbalanced, perfectly owned itself. Some contemporaries, the truth, found its game a little pompous. Perfectly knowing classicism receptions, Dmitrevsky has apprehended also the lines of new actor's game brought by an educational direction and its aspiration to transfer natural feeling, the most thin movements of human soul. The big influence on formation Dmitrevsky has rendered its acquaintance to writers D.I.Fonvizin and I.A.Krylov.