Микола Олімпійович Гриценко (17.07.1912–08.12.1979): до біографії видатного українського актора.

Abstract

The essay is dedicated to some aspects of the biography of the prominent Ukrainian actor of theater and cinema Mykola Grytsenko, who was born, spent his childhood and youth in Donbas. His writing was prompted by errors in the biographical information of Mykola Hrytsenko and his family, distributed in print and online resources. Therefore, the author aimed to correct, clarify and supplement the biographical facts about Mykola Grytsenko and, incidentally, his family members, who belong to the Donbas period of their lives. Due to the archival documents, memoirs and some other sources involved, the exact date of birth of Mykola Grytsenko was established – July 17 (4) 1912, the village of Yasynuvate, Bakhmut county, Katerynoslav province. The birth date of Mykola's sister, Lilia Grytsenko, who was born on November 16 (3) 1917 in Gorlovka, Bakhmut County, was also corrected. Her real name is Lydia, not Lydia. We have found little known facts about the parents of future actors. Mykola's father, Olimpiy Grytsenko, was born in 1882 and comes from a Cossack family who lived for 18–20 centuries in Perehonivka village, Kobelyatsky county, Poltava province. Mykola's mother, Faina Vasylivna, was born in Gorlovka in 1883. It is established that her real name was Theodosia.Mykola Grytsenko attended elementary school No. 1 in Yasynuvata (1919–1926), then at the Dnepropetrovsk technical school of railway transport (1927–1931). After his studies, he first worked at the Mushketove and Yasynuvata railway stations (1931–1932). When the family moved to Makyivka, Mykola Grytsenko worked as a designer at the Steel Plant and at the same time studied at the Music and Drama Workers Department (1932–1934). He subsequently left the Donbass and entered the Kyiv Drama College at the Mykola Lysenko Music and Drama Institute. The author was able to establish that as a result of political persecution, Olimpiy Grytsenko had to leave the family and ended up in the Urals, where he worked at the Machine-Building Plant No. 78 until 1938, when he was accused of anti-Soviet activity, arrested and shot. Mother Faina Vasylivna and sister Lilia about 1935–1936 moved to Moscow, where a little earlier arrived from Kiev Mykola Grytsenko.