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He was born on May 7, 1811 in Kursk. He served at the Kursk Theater in 1826-1832.
He joined the Kursk troupe headed by I. F. Stein as an extra. On February 5, 1826, he made his debut in the role of a Roman in P.S. Fedorov's vaudeville «Wonderful Meetings, or Turmoil in a Masquerade».
The troupe toured different cities. Once in Kharkov, the great tragedian Pavel Mochalov, who came there on tour, noticed the play of a young actor and appreciated the talent of the novice artist. Having served in Kharkov for more than 10 years, Rybakov began the life of a traveling actor.
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He has repeatedly visited Kazan, Saratov, Orel, Voronezh, Tula, Odessa, Taganrog, Nikolaev, Zhytomyr, Chisinau and other cities and has enjoyed great success with the public everywhere.
In 1852, Rybakov made his debut on the stage of the Imperial Maly Theater in Moscow, and in 1854 — in St. Petersburg, at the Alexandrinsky Theater, in the role of Hamlet. Basically, the actor served in provincial theaters and was a great tragic actor.
In 1862, at the age of 50, he again played Hamlet in Saratov. According to the memoirs of actor L. N. Samsonov, «the whole theater was crying.»
Great Russian playwright A. N. Ostrovsky, a close friend of Rybakov, said the following in May 1876 at the Public Theater, when the actor was honored on the occasion of his 65th birthday, as well as the half-century anniversary of his service to the Russian stage:
Glorious and worthy of honors is not the one who has achieved them, but the one who deserves them ...
Your half-century of selfless service to the Russian theater will forever preserve the grateful memory of posterity to your name
Nikolai Khrysanfovich Rybakov died on November 15, 1876 in Tambov. He was buried at the Assumption Cemetery.
In Tambov, in the Theater Square, located near the place where the Winter Theater once stood, a foundation stone with the name of N. H. Rybakov was installed.
Since 2007, the All-Russian Theater Festival held in Tambov has been named after him.
«Rybakov is an entire epoch of the Russian theater, covering the middle of the last century (19th century), he is a man of strong talent, abilities, who did not know the school, but created it»
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