1. The young actor's style was in correspondence with the principles of Meyerhold, and so Ilyinsky soon became the central actor of that theatre.
10 Facts About Igor Ilyinsky
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Igor Ilyinsky worked with Meyerhold on several of his most famous productions: Mistery-Buffo, The Forest, The Magnanimous Cuckold, Woe to Wit, The Bedbug.
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In 1938 Igor Ilyinsky splendidly acted as Byvalov in the comedy Volga-Volga.
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Igor Ilyinsky deliberately avoided any comic traits in his character to create a common image of a red-tapist.
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Igor Ilyinsky decided to create a totally contrasting character, which he succeeded in.
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However, after the film Igor Ilyinsky almost stopped his film acting.
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The character created by Igor Ilyinsky was a repetition of what he had done 20 years earlier.
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Igor Ilyinsky managed to play a truly starry film role only 18 years after Volga-Volga.
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In Maly Theatre at the same time Igor Ilyinsky shifted to portrayals of deeply tragic characters, in particular, from Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Leo Tolstoy.
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The last period of Igor Ilyinsky's career was marked by his portrayal of Leo Tolstoy in the play Turning Full Circle and of Firs, and his performance in The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov.