Yvan Kyrlya

Yvan Kyrlya, even Yvan Kurly, (Russian: Kirill Ivanovich Ivanov, born March 17, 1909 in Kupsola, Region Mari El, † July 1943 in Krasnoturjinsk ) was one of the most famous personalities of people living in Russia ethnic minority called Mari.

Early life

Yvan Kyrlya was born on March 17, 1909 in the village Kupsola ( in the region of Mari El). He grew up, together with his two sisters, as an orphan in a poor peasant family, since his father was killed early on in a fight. This meant that Kyrlya had to beg on the streets, to secure together with his sisters and his mother 's livelihood.

Education

His college career began Yvan Kyrlya at the elementary school in Marisol, a Kupsola village nearby. After the successful completion of primary school, he also finished the secondary school in Sernur, where his interest in poetry, music, theater and cinema already clarified. In 1926 he was accepted at the technical university at the Kazan University, where he studied cinematography. Here his teachers noticed his extraordinary talent and recommended him to attend drama school.

Film career

However, rather than attend a drama school, Kyrlya applied directly to a role in the first Soviet sound film "Road to Life" ( 1932). In the filming of the first episodes of the film director Nicolas Eck recognized the talent Kyrlya 's and gave him the leading role. The experiences of the protagonist in the film, Mustafa ( Street Name: Firth ), were very similar to those Kyrlya himself had experienced in his childhood. The film had in Russia an unprecedented success and allowed Kyrlya the breakthrough in the actresses scene. However Kyrlya 's film career did not last long. He played in only one more film, "representative of the Buddha " (1934-1936), directed by Yevgeny Ivanov - Barkov, where he played the role of the Lama.

Other occupations

After his last film Yvan Kyrlya moved to Yoshkar -Ola, where he worked in the Mari State Drama Theatre worked. However, his theater career, he had to prematurely terminate because he was arrested from the perspective of the Soviet government, incompatible ideology of nationalism due to the and was sent to a labor camp. In addition to his short career in the theater Kyrlya also wrote poetry. After his death, three books were published, which contained poems and songs about him. Most written by him poems center around two themes: the denial of his bad childhood and social breakthrough, because of the formation was possible in his view.

Arrest and death

On the night of April 18, 1937, Yvan Kyrlya was with a few friends in a hotel restaurant, after a number of significant actors in the Mari State Drama Theatre, but the contract was not him, was terminated. There he quarreled with a student who allegedly called him a nationalist. In this accusation, he reportedly replied: " Long live the brotherhood of peoples" A police officer who had the Kyrlya earlier called that night to arrest the students, then took Yvan Kyrlya fixed. In the subsequent process Kyrlya was described by the authorities as " ardent nationalist ," which is why he was a " enemy of the people ". Yvan Kyrlya was sentenced to 10 years hard labor, of which he served in Karelia the first five years. In 1942 he joined the labor camp: from Karelia in the Urals. According to official information, he died there in the mines of Krasnoturjinsk because of " serious illness and exhaustion ." It was officially rehabilitated Yvan Kyrlya by the Russian state in 1957.

Later importance

For today's Mari Yvan Kyrlya is still one of its most prominent figures. 1969 a street in Yoskar -Ola was named after him, and in 2009 a monument to him was placed in Yoskar -Ola. At the unveiling of the monument, the mayor of Yoskar -Ola said: "We recognize his talent and open today a monument to the great actor and poet. " Besides, Yvan Kyrlya 's biography served as the basis for the film " Son of Happiness ", a film about the life of young people from ethnic minorities.