Draft:Vasily Luchich Dalmatov

Vasily Panteilemonovich Luchich Dalmatov (Russian Cyrillic: Далматов (Лучич) Василий Пантелеймонович; 1852-1912) was a Russian stage actor, director, and playwright who performed mainly in Odessa, St. Petersburg and Moscow. Lučić is considered an outstanding actor of the Aleksandrinsky Theatre He was a contemporary of other great Russian actors of his generation: Maria Savina, Aleksandr Lensky, Konstantin Varlamov, Polina Strepetova, Ivan Gorbunov, Vasily Andreev-Burlak (1843-1888) and [[Modest Pisarev.

Biography
According to some sources Vasily Lučić was born in the Kingdom of Dalmatia, then part of Austrian Dalmatia, hence the pseudonym Dalmatov while in other sources include Odessa, his birth place. His father Panteilemon Lučić came from the Serbian Lučić family, one of the oldest and most respected merchant families in the city of Odessa. Panteilemon Lučić always stood by his talented son who displayed early in life a love for the arts. Even as a student Vasily began acting in literary circles in Odessa, and as a young man he ended up in Moscow, at the Taneyev and Ursov Theatre.

From 1873 to 1876, he was an actor of the Moscow Public Theatre (Ferdinand, Karl Moor in plays by F. Schiller).

In the 1880-81 season, he performed at the Pushkin Theatre of Ana Brenko, after its closure he transferred to the troupe of F. A. Korsh Theatre (in the first premiere of "The Government Inspector" by N. V. Gogol Vasily Lučić played Khlestakov).

Lučić reached the pinnacle of his artistic career when he moved to Petrograd in 1884 at the Alexandrinsky Theatre, where he served until 1894 and from 1901 until the end of his life. He was the director of the theatre school of A. S. Suvorin. There he became a favourite actor of the Petrograd audience in the following roles:


 * Hamlet
 * Macbeth
 * King Lear
 * Ioanna ("The Death of Ivan the Terrible" by A.K. Tolstoy)
 * Gaev ("The Cherry Orchard" by A.P. Chekhov)
 * Agishin ("The Marriage of Belugin" by A.N. Ostrovsky and N.Ya. Solovyov, 1883)
 * Antushev ("The Rout")
 * Duke of Alba ("The Count de Rizoor" by V. Sardu)
 * Telyatev ("Mad Money" by A.N. Ostrovsky, 1898)
 * Zvezdintsev ("The Fruits of Enlightenment", 1902)
 * Cornet Otletaev ("Cornet Otletaev" by G.V. Kugushev)
 * Krechinsky ("The Wedding of Krechinsky", 1902)
 * Rakitin ("A Month in the Country" by I.S. Turgenev, 1903)
 * Count Lyubin ("Provincial Girl" by I. S. Turgenev, 1909)
 * Marmeladov ("Crime and Punishment" by F. M. Dostoevsky, 1899)
 * Nozdrev ("Dead Souls" by N. V. Gogol)

After being accepted as a member of a popular Pushkin troupe in Moscow, where his stage performances gained him a reputation as an outstanding Russian actor. That same year he was engaged as a member of Tsarskog Teatra where he remained until 1895 when he returned to Moscow. Then, again he was called back to Saint Petersburg where he joined the same theatre and there he remained for the rest of his life.

It was in Saint Petersburg that he performed more than anywhere else and there he promoted the Književno i Umetničko Društvo (Literary and Artistic Society Theatre), also known as Saint Petersburg's Maly Theatre or Suvorin Theatre, named after the president of the society, Aleksei Sergeyevich Suvorin. The theatre was established in 1895 as a private theatre of the Literary and Artistic Circle, which changed its name to the Literary and Artistic Society in 1899. Vasily for a time was its director.

Upon the invitation of the National Theatre in Belgrade, Vasily Lučić arrived in the Kingdom of Serbia at the end of May 1903 to be a guest actor in the roles he was famous in Russia: Svengali (a character in the novel Trilby which was first published in 1894 by George du Maurier); Marmeladov ("Crime and Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky); Kin, Korado, and Marko (in a play about Marko Kraljević).

He was buried at the Volkovskoye Orthodox Cemetery. In 1936 he was reburied in the Necropolis of Masters of Arts.

Works
He wrote plays ("Labor and Capital", "Raid", "The Demon of Self-Greater Entangled", etc.), feuilletons, short stories and novellas from theatre life (published in "New Time", "Theatre and Art", "Niva", etc.).

Literature

 * Dalmatov, Vasily Panteleimonovich // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary: in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 add.). - St. Petersburg, 1890-1907.
 * On the other side of the curtains. Theatrical essays. T. 1. SPb., 1908.
 * Works. Plays. SPb., 1891.
 * "EIT". SPb., 1911. Issue VI, pp. 69-95.
 * Kugel A. R. (Homo Novus). Theatrical portraits. Pg.-M., 1923.
 * Yuryev Yu. M. Notes. L.-M., 1948.
 * Mikhailov K. N. Vasily Panteleimonovich Dalmatov. SPb., 1914.
 * Gilyarovsky V. A. Actor Dalmatov
 * Usachev I. Sorcerer of the image (unavailable link)