Chervyakov E.V. (1899-1942), film director

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CHERVYAKOV Evgeny Veniaminovich (1899-1942, Mga, Leningrad Region), film director, actor, script writer. Graduated from the Studio of Dramatic Arts in Ufa in 1918 and the State Film School in Moscow in 1927. He started working in the cinema as an actor and assistant director in Gold Reserve and Cross and Mauser, both directed by V. R. Gardin in 1925. He played Pushkin in Gardin’s Poet and Tsar in 1927, which was a great success. He then worked with intervals at Lenfilm in 1924-41. He directed Girl from a Far River (1927), My Son (1928), Golden Beak (1929), Cities and Years (1930), Prisoners (1936), and Village of Dalnaya (1940). He featured St. Petersburg in his Poet and Tsar and Cities and Years, and wrote Pushkin and Petersburg, an article published in 1926. He joined the People’s Volunteer Army of Leningrad in 1941 and died in action near Mga. He was buried in the common grave at the Novaya Maluxa station. Chervyakov’s name is included in the memorial plaque at Lenfilm.

Reference: Гуревич С. Д. За камерой стояли трое // Из истории "Ленфильма": Ст., воспоминания, док. Л., 1968. Вып. 1. С. 82-103; Юренев Р. Н. Кинорежиссер Евгений Червяков. М., 1972.

I. V. Sepman. Chervyakov Evgeny Veniaminovich
Gardin Vladimir Rostislavovich
Юренев Р. Н. Кинорежиссер Евгений Червяков. М., 1972
Гуревич С. За камерой стояли трое // Из истории "Ленфильма": Ст., воспоминания, док., 1920-е гг. Л., 1968 Lenfilm, Film Studio
People's Volunteer Militia of 1941