Books. Ternev K.A., Korneychuk A.E., Pogodin N.F., Moscow, Iskusstvo, 1939

Books. Ternev K.A., Korneychuk A.E., Pogodin N.F., Moscow, Iskusstvo, 1939

The collection of works of dramatic theatrical art includes the main Soviet productions, in which the image of V.I. Lenin begins to appear for the first time. However, it was only thanks to the permission of I.V. Stalin that these productions were published.

N.F. Pogodin's play "The Man with the Gun" is the 1st part of the trilogy about V.I. Lenin. The work was first staged in 1937 on the stage of the Theater. Vakhtangov. However, by the early 1940s, the play was removed from the repertoire of all theaters, and only in 1954 the second "premiere" of the production took place. During the Great Patriotic War, compositions and montages based on the play were included in the repertoire of many front-line brigades serving the active army, front lines and rear areas. After the war, the play began to be published abroad: in China, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria and many other countries.

However, the work presented above is not considered the first in which the image of Lenin is revealed. A year before that, in 1936, the playwright and writer K.A. Trenev created the play "On the Banks of the Neva", in which he showed the atmosphere of stormy days in pre-revolutionary Petrograd in 1917. Thanks to this work, it is Trenev who is called the creator of the first image of V.I. Lenin in drama. The play was liked by the party leadership, and already in 1937 it entered the repertoire of the Maly Theater.

The Ukrainian writer and politician A.E. Korneychuk also made a significant contribution to the development of the image of V.I. Lenin in the history of the Soviet theater. The play "Pravda" was written by Korneychuk in 1937, and for the first time in the Ukrainian drama theater the image of the Leader was brought on stage. N.S. Khrushchev and L.M. Kaganovich recommended a young and promising writer to I.V. Stalin, and in 1938 their personal meeting took place in the Kremlin. The playwright made a good impression on Stalin, and the so-called "green street" was opened for his works - all Korneychuk's works published at that time, including Pravda, were translated into the languages of all peoples of the USSR, primarily into Russian, and were staged in all Soviet theaters.