Ivan Kavaleridze

Ivan Kavaleridze studied at Gottlieb Walker Gymnasium, Kyiv Art School and Imperial Academy of Arts. Training under Fedir Balavenskyi, Ilya Guinzbourg and Naoum Aronson is recorded. The recorded working language is Ukrainian. The field of work recorded is film direction, film screenwriting and art of sculpture. Employment is recorded with Odesa Film Studio and Dovzhenko Film Studios. Works named in the authority record are Monument to Yaroslav the Wise (Kyiv). Distinctions recorded are People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR and Order of the Red Star.

• Name — Ivan Kavaleridze • Birthplace — Ladanskyi, Kharkov Governorate, Russian Empire • Place of death — Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR • Occupation — Sculptor, writer, filmmaker • Language — Ukrainian

• Illustration — The grave of Ivan Kavaleridze at Baikove Cemetery Kavaleridze was born in Ladanskyi (now Novopetrivka, Romny Raion, Sumy Oblast, Ukraine). He descended from a Georgian family transplanted by a Russian general into Ukraine in the middle of the 19th century. From 1907 to 1909, Kavaleridze studied at the Kyiv Art School; from 1909 to 1910, he was an art student at the Imperial Academy of Arts; from 1910 to 1911, he studied with Naum Aronson, in Paris. By 1910, he was noted for running his own amateur theater company in Romny. Kavaleridze also sculpted a marble monument to Rus' saints in 1911 at Volodymyrska Street. It was restored in 1996 after it was taken down by the Communists in 1934. In 1918 to 1920, he created monuments to Taras Shevchenko and Gregory Skovoroda. Shevchenko's statue, which was erected opposite Kyiv University, became a location for nationalist demonstrations during the 1960s and 1980s. From 1928 to 1933, he worked as an artist, writer and director in the Odessa Film Studio, and from 1934 and 1941 in Kyiv Film Factory. In 1936, Kavaleridze released the screen adaptation of Mykola Lysenko's Natalka Poltavka. It was the first film-opera in the Soviet cinema. From 1957 to 1962, he was a director at the Dovzhenko film studio. He is buried at the Baikove Cemetery.

• Torrent (1929) – based on Taras Shevchenko's Haidamaky • Perekop (1930) • Koliivshchyna (1933) • Prometheus (1936) • Natalka Poltavka (1936) • Hryhoriy Skovoroda (1958)

The authorities additionally record the headings Ivan Petrovič Kavaleridze, Ivan Petrovich Kavaleridze, Ivan Petrovych Kavaleridze, Ivan Kawaleridze and Ivan Petrowytsch Kawaleridze. His recorded language was Ukrainian.

Ivan Kavaleridze worked in film direction, film screenwriting, art of sculpture and drama. He was employed by Odesa Film Studio and Dovzhenko Film Studios. He belonged to National Union of Artists of Ukraine and National Union of Cinematographers of Ukraine.

Ivan Kavaleridze is recorded as having studied at Gottlieb Walker Gymnasium, Kyiv Art School and Imperial Academy of Arts. Formation and teaching. Kavaleridze studied at Gottlieb Walker Gymnasium, Kyiv Art School and Imperial Academy of Arts. He trained under Fedir Balavenskyi, Ilya Guinzbourg, Naoum Aronson and Auguste Rodin.