Tatiana
Georgievna Bruni

While studying at the CVC: Bruni-Korshikov, Korshikov. Painter. Certificate of completion of the CVC on the basis of the act of the qualification commission on the basis of sketches and studies of the last staging of the 4th year of mastery.

T.G. Bruni - a famous theater artist, representative of the longest artistic dynasty, great-granddaughter of Fyodor Antonovich Bruni - the author of the painting “The Brass Serpent”, a painting by St. Isaac's Cathedral and the rector of St. Petersburg, Academy of Arts.

Studied T.G. Bruni at the St. Petersburg School for the Promotion of Arts by A.R. Eberling, then entered VKhUTEIN (now the Academy of Arts), where she studied from 1920 to 1926. The course was conducted by V.I. Belyaev, later A.L. Vakhrameev and K.S. Petrov-Vodkin. Tatyana Georgievna graduated as a landscape painter, but the theater became her life's work.

For more than half a century, the surname of Bruni has not descended from theatrical posters, primarily Leningrad ones. Her work, with all the personality of her handwriting, is surprisingly responsive to everything new in the theater. It has always been “in time”, on the example of the artist’s creativity, one could trace the development of Russian theatrical and decorative art of the twentieth century.

The main creative love is ballet. Her place in ballet scenography is perhaps unique: the artist’s dynamic and mobile work is like a large series of illustrations to the entire process of searches, difficulties and finds of ballet scenography in its Leningrad version.

In the twenties, Bruni became one of the artists of The Young Ballet, created by George Balanchivadze, the future George Balanchine. In 1932, together with G.N. Korshikov draws the ballet Bolt directed by F. Lopukhov. The grotesque, ironic music of Shostakovich was fully consistent with the design, especially the costumes, which were an excellent example of the Russian avant-garde. The success of these sketches at many exhibitions, in particular, Moscow-Paris and From Malevich to Bruni in Italy, is not accidental.

In 1937, the artist prepares a performance in MALEGOT (now the St. Petersburg State Academic Opera and Ballet Theater named after MP Mussorgsky), the ballet "Vain Precautions" and appears as an ironic and refined stylist, invariably faithful to the major perception of the traditions of ballet scenography. Since that time, a long collaboration with the Maly Opera House has begun, lasting about forty years and leading to the creation of thirty performances. Among them were the ballets The Imaginary Groom, Youth, The Blue Danube, the opera Madame Favard, staged by B.A. Fenster, "Francesca da Rimini", choreographer K.F. Boyarsky, "Gavrosh", choreographer V.A. Varkovitsky, "Harlequinade", staged by P.A. Gusev, "Wedding Krechinekogo", director N.V. Smolich, "Robbers", director N.V. Smolich. The last performance was the Esmeralda ballet, in 1981, staged by P. A. Gusev, T. M. Vecheshlova and N. N. Boyarchikova. These performances were included in the golden fund of the history of Soviet ballet.

At the same time, Bruni staged performances at the Opera and Ballet Theater. Kirov (now the State Academic Mariinsky Theater), where one of the most interesting decisions was the ballet Cinderella, directed by K.M. Sergeeva. From the late thirties to the eighties, T.G. Bruni constantly collaborated with the Leningrad School of Choreography (now the Academy of Russian Ballet named after A.Ya. Vaganova), was the author of the design of individual numbers and ballets directed by B.A. Feneter, K.F. Boyarsky, K.L. Goleizovsky, K.M. Sergeeva, B.Ya. Eifman, L.V. Jacobson, With the same choreographers, the artist worked in professional theaters. Particularly interesting was the collaboration with Goleizovsky and Jacobson.

Fruitfully T.G. Bruni collaborated with the Moscow Ballet under the direction of N. Kasatkina and V. Vasiliev, who staged "The Rite of Spring" and "Little Tsakes" with a surprisingly bright witty decision.

In addition to ballet, Tatyana Georgievna worked in opera and drama. During her creative life, the artist created the design of more than two hundred performances for the theaters of Leningrad and Moscow, Kiev and Sverdlovsk, Yaroslavl, Perm, Saratov. For academic and amateur theaters, for a circus, music hall, ballet on ice, for a puppet theater. Continuous work in the theater was supplemented by teaching at the Leningrad Institute of Theater, Music and Cinematography. Pupils T.G. Bruni work in many theaters in the country and abroad, among them are such famous names as A. Kozhenkova, E. Kochergin, G. Sotnikov.

Like few artists of the Russian theater, Bruni felt the peculiarities of the “style” of the composer or playwright, trying to create a plastic, picturesque embodiment of them, but with all the variety of techniques, expressive means, the “Bruni style” is always felt.