Sergey Alekseevich Veshchev, Honored Artist of Russia, was born on August 22, 1959. In 1982 he graduated from Mikhail Semyonovich Shchepkin Higher Theatre School (course of Mikhail Tsaryov) and was invited to the join the company of the Maly State Academic Theatre of Russia.
Over 35 years of service on the oldest drama stage, Sergey Veshchev performed more than 70 roles in total that differ in scale and genre. His portrayals are always authentic and persuasive and are distinguished by Sergey’s immaculate stage presence and sense of humour. Sergey performed in a great number of historical plays: «Tsar Boris», «Prince Serebrenni», «Tsar Ivan the Terrible», etc. He has repeatedly saved the theatre, urgently replacing the actor and mastering the complex material in the shortest possible time.
For many years Sergey Veschev has collaborated with the actor and director of the Maly Theatre Eduard Martsevich. Veshchev is also the second director of Leo Tolstoy’s «Resurrection», staged by Martsevich.
Veshchev is also highly involved in children's plays, and it is known that playing for a younger audience is twice as hard since children are far quicker to identify hypocrisy on the stage. Sergey played Gavrila in «The Little Humpbacked Horse» by Pyotr Yershov, Trishka, Milon and Kuteykin in Denis Fonvizin's «The Minor», the Minister in «Smart Things» by Marshak and a number of others .
Sergey Alekseevich has appeared in numerous films and TV shows, such as «Casino», «Unknown Soldier», «My Half-Brother Frankenstein», «Kamenskaya-4», «Suspicion», «Esenin», «The Mockingbird’s Smile», «Gentlemen-Comrades». Veshchev also starred in educational television films about Sumarokov, Mayakovsky, Bulgakov, Schwarz, participated in radio plays about Pushkin and Aristophanes. He is also one of the leading voice artists (voice-over of films and cartoons).
Roles in the Maly Theatre:
1982 - (replacement) Skalozub, «Woe from Wit» by Alexander Griboedov, directed by Vitaliy Ivanov
1982 - (replacement) A servant, «Before Sunset» by Gerhart Hauptmann, directed by Leonid Kheyfetz
1982 - (replacement) Lyulyukov, «The Governmnet Inspector» by Nikolai Gogol, directed by Evgeniy Vesnik and Yuri Solomin
1982 - (replacement) An artisan, «Fiesco's Conspiracy at Genoa» by Friedrich Schiller, directed by Leonid Kheyfetz
1982 - (replacement) A detective, «In Agony» by Miroslav Krleža, directed by Stevo Žigon (Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia)
1982 - (premiere) Pavlik, «Wild Angel» by Alexei Kolomiets, directed by Vladimir Sedov
1982 - (replacement) Don Luis, «Jealous of Herself» by Tirso de Molina, directed by Leonid Kheyfetz
1983 - (replacement) Second guard, «The Little Humpbacked Horse» by Pyotr Yershov, directed by Roman Sokolov
1983 - (replacement) Dobchinsky, «The Governmnet Inspector» by Nikolai Gogol, directed by Evgeniy Vesnik and Yuri Solomin
1984 - (replacement) Okoemov's servant, «Handsome Man» by Alexander Ostrovsky, directed by Marianna Turbina
1984 - (replacement) Young master, «The Stone Flower» by Pavel Bazhov, directed by Vitaliy Ivanov
1985 - (replacement) Young lackey, «Smart Things» by Samuil Marshak, directed by Evgeniy Simonov
1985 - (replacement) a tavern servant, «The Governmnet Inspector» by Nikolai Gogol, directed by Evgeniy Vesnik and Yuri Solomin
1985 - (replacement) Messenger, «Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich» by Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, directed by Boris Ravenskikh
1985 - (replacement) Clown Seva, «My Favorite Clown» by Vasiliy Livanov, directed by Vitaliy Solomin
1986 - (premiere) Trishka, «The Minor» by Denis Fonvizin, directed by Vitaliy Ivanov
1986 - (replacement) Reporter, «Ivan» by Anatoliy Kudryavtsev, directed by Vladimir Andreev
1986 - (replacement) Oduvanchil (Dandelion), «Private Soldiers» by Aleksey Dudarev, directed by Boris Lvov-Anokhin and Vasiliy Fyodorov
1986 - (premiere) Govikem, «The Man Who Laughs» by Victor Hugo, directed by Igor Ilyinskiy and Vladimir Martens
1987 - (premiere) Student-trainee, «To Be Discussed» by Alexander Kosenkov, directed by Vasiliy Fyodorov
1987 - (replacement) Shubin, «On the Eve» by Ivan Turgenev, directed by Vladimir Sedov
1987 - (replacement) Mykin, «A Profitable Position» by Alexander Ostrovsky, directed by Vladimir Beylis
1988 - (premiere) Fanda «The House in Heaven» by Jiří Hubač, directed by Zdeněk Míka (Czechoslovak Socialist Republic)
1989 - (premiere) Pancho, «The Night of the Iguana» by Tennessee Williams, directed by Theodore Mann (USA)
1989 - (replacement) Gavrila, «The Little Humpbacked Horse» by Pyotr Yershov, directed by Roman Sokolov
1989 - (replacement) Batman, «The Father» by August Strindberg, directed by Eduard Martsevich
1990 - (premiere) Oprichnik, «Prince Serebrenni» by Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, directed by Vitaliy Ivanov
1990 - (premiere) Teacher of fencing, «The Bourgeois Gentleman » by Jean-Baptiste Molière, directed by Ilan Ronen (Israel)
1991 - (replacement) Boris's servant, «Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich» by Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, directed by Boris Ravenskikh
1991 - (replacement) Gryaznoy, «Prince Serebrenni» by Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, directed by Vitaliy Ivanov
1994 - (replacement) Alexander Nikitich Romanov, «Tsar Boris» by Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, directed by Vladimir Beylis
1994 - (replacement) Milon, «The Minor» by Denis Fonvizin, directed by Vitaliy Ivanov
1994 - (replacement) Lev Sapega, «Tsar Boris» by Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, directed by Vladimir Beylis
1994 - (replacement) Prince Repnin, «Tsar Boris» by Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, directed by Vladimir Beylis
1995 - (replacement) Clerk, «There Was Not a Single Penny, and Suddenly There is a Dime» by Alexander Ostrovsky, directed by Eduard Martsevich
1997 - (replacement) Gregoriy Nagoy, «Tsar Ivan the Terrible» by Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, directed by Vladimir Dragunov
1997 - (replacement) Stremyanniy, «Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich» by Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, directed by Boris Ravenskikh
1998 - (replacement) Baklushin, «There Was Not a Single Penny, and Suddenly There is a Dime» by Alexander Ostrovsky, directed by Eduard Martsevich
1998 - (replacement) Gavryushka, «Uncle's Dream» by Fyodor Dostoevsky, directed by Alexander Chetverkin
1998 - (premiere) Brevet, «Resurrection» by Leo Tolstoy, directed by Eduard Martsevich
1999 - (replacement) Kuteykin, «The Minor» by Denis Fonvizin, directed by Vitaliy Ivanov
1999 - (replacement) Simonson, «Resurrection» by Leo Tolstoy, directed by Eduard Martsevich
1999 - (replacement) Novodvorov, «Resurrection» by Leo Tolstoy, directed by Eduard Martsevich
1999 - (premiere) Passek, «Chronicles of the Palace Coup» by Galina Turchina, directed by Vladimir Beylis
2000 - (replacement) Prince Sitsky, «Tsar Boris» by Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, directed by Vladimir Beylis
2001 - (replacement) Khomyak, «Prince Serebrenni» by Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, directed by Vitaliy Ivanov
2002 - (replacement) Maxim Skuratov, «Prince Serebrenni» by Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, directed by Vitaliy Ivanov
2004 - (replacement) Servant, «Money to Burn» by Alexander Ostrovsky, directed by Vitaliy Ivanov
2004 - (premiere) Waiter, «Wedding! Wedding! Wedding» by Anton Chekhov, directed by Vitaliy Ivanov
2004 - (replacement) Mukhoyarov, «Truth is Good, but Happiness is Better» by Alexander Ostrovsky, directed by Sergey Zhenovach
2004 - (replacement) Voeykov, «Tsar Boris» by Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, directed by Vladimir Beylis
2005 - (replacement) Yat, «Wedding! Wedding! Wedding» by Anton Chekhov, directed by Vitaliy Ivanov
2007 - (premiere) Dmitry Ivanovich Shuiskiy, «Dmitry Pretender and Vasily Shuisky» by Alexander Ostrovsky, directed by Vladimir Dragunov
2008 - (premiere) Doctor Genoni, «Mad, Mad Henry» by Luigi Pirandello, directed by Vladimir Beylis
2009 - (replacement) Dr. Purgon, «The Imaginary Invalid»by J.-B. Molière, directed by Sergey Zhenovach
2009 - (premiere) Marquis de Lessac, a player, «The Life and Love of Monsieur de Molière, or The Cabal of Hypocrites» by Mikhail Bulgakov, directed by Vladimir Dragunov
2009 - (premiere) Minister, «Smart Things» by Samuil Marshak, directed by Vasiliy Fyodorov
2011 - (replacement) Babieca, «Secrets of the Madrid Court» by Eugène Scribe, Ernest Leguvé, directed by Vladimir Beylis
2012 - (replacement) Dobchinsky, «The Government Inspector» by Nikolay Gogol, directed by Yuri Solomin and Vasiliy Fyodorov
2014 - (premiere) Count Nikita Ivanovich Panin, «The Theatre of the Empress» by Edvard Radzinsky, directed by Vladimir Dragunov
2015 - (premiere) Margaritov, «Late Love» by Alexander Ostrovsky, directed by Andrey Tsisaruk
2016 - (premiere) Balabaykin, Comedian, Vorobyov-Sokolov, «Re-reading Chekhov» (based on Anton Chekhov's short stories), directed by Elena Olenina
2016 - (replacement) Luca, «Wedding! Wedding! Wedding» by Anton Chekhov, directed by Vitaliy Ivanov
2017 - (premiere) Count Gloucester, «King Lear» by William Shakespeare, directed by Anton Yakovlev
2018 - (premiere) First merchant, «Time of Troubles. 1609-1611» by Vladimir Medinskiy, directed by Vladimir Beylis
Sergey Alekseevich Veshchev, Honored Artist of Russia, was born on August 22, 1959. In 1982 he graduated from Mikhail Semyonovich Shchepkin Higher Theatre School (course of Mikhail Tsaryov) and was invited to the join the company of the Maly State Academic Theatre of Russia.
Over 35 years of service on the oldest drama stage, Sergey Veshchev performed more than 70 roles in total that differ in scale and genre. His portrayals are always authentic and persuasive and are distinguished by Sergey’s immaculate stage presence and sense of humour. Sergey performed in a great number of historical plays: «Tsar Boris», «Prince Serebrenni», «Tsar Ivan the Terrible», etc. He has repeatedly saved the theatre, urgently replacing the actor and mastering the complex material in the shortest possible time.
For many years Sergey Veschev has collaborated with the actor and director of the Maly Theatre Eduard Martsevich. Veshchev is also the second director of Leo Tolstoy’s «Resurrection», staged by Martsevich.
Veshchev is also highly involved in children's plays, and it is known that playing for a younger audience is twice as hard since children are far quicker to identify hypocrisy on the stage. Sergey played Gavrila in «The Little Humpbacked Horse» by Pyotr Yershov, Trishka, Milon and Kuteykin in Denis Fonvizin's «The Minor», the Minister in «Smart Things» by Marshak and a number of others .
Sergey Alekseevich has appeared in numerous films and TV shows, such as «Casino», «Unknown Soldier», «My Half-Brother Frankenstein», «Kamenskaya-4», «Suspicion», «Esenin», «The Mockingbird’s Smile», «Gentlemen-Comrades». Veshchev also starred in educational television films about Sumarokov, Mayakovsky, Bulgakov, Schwarz, participated in radio plays about Pushkin and Aristophanes. He is also one of the leading voice artists (voice-over of films and cartoons).
Roles in the Maly Theatre:
1982 - (replacement) Skalozub, «Woe from Wit» by Alexander Griboedov, directed by Vitaliy Ivanov
1982 - (replacement) A servant, «Before Sunset» by Gerhart Hauptmann, directed by Leonid Kheyfetz
1982 - (replacement) Lyulyukov, «The Governmnet Inspector» by Nikolai Gogol, directed by Evgeniy Vesnik and Yuri Solomin
1982 - (replacement) An artisan, «Fiesco's Conspiracy at Genoa» by Friedrich Schiller, directed by Leonid Kheyfetz
1982 - (replacement) A detective, «In Agony» by Miroslav Krleža, directed by Stevo Žigon (Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia)
1982 - (premiere) Pavlik, «Wild Angel» by Alexei Kolomiets, directed by Vladimir Sedov
1982 - (replacement) Don Luis, «Jealous of Herself» by Tirso de Molina, directed by Leonid Kheyfetz
1983 - (replacement) Second guard, «The Little Humpbacked Horse» by Pyotr Yershov, directed by Roman Sokolov
1983 - (replacement) Dobchinsky, «The Governmnet Inspector» by Nikolai Gogol, directed by Evgeniy Vesnik and Yuri Solomin
1984 - (replacement) Okoemov's servant, «Handsome Man» by Alexander Ostrovsky, directed by Marianna Turbina
1984 - (replacement) Young master, «The Stone Flower» by Pavel Bazhov, directed by Vitaliy Ivanov
1985 - (replacement) Young lackey, «Smart Things» by Samuil Marshak, directed by Evgeniy Simonov
1985 - (replacement) a tavern servant, «The Governmnet Inspector» by Nikolai Gogol, directed by Evgeniy Vesnik and Yuri Solomin
1985 - (replacement) Messenger, «Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich» by Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, directed by Boris Ravenskikh
1985 - (replacement) Clown Seva, «My Favorite Clown» by Vasiliy Livanov, directed by Vitaliy Solomin
1986 - (premiere) Trishka, «The Minor» by Denis Fonvizin, directed by Vitaliy Ivanov
1986 - (replacement) Reporter, «Ivan» by Anatoliy Kudryavtsev, directed by Vladimir Andreev
1986 - (replacement) Oduvanchil (Dandelion), «Private Soldiers» by Aleksey Dudarev, directed by Boris Lvov-Anokhin and Vasiliy Fyodorov
1986 - (premiere) Govikem, «The Man Who Laughs» by Victor Hugo, directed by Igor Ilyinskiy and Vladimir Martens
1987 - (premiere) Student-trainee, «To Be Discussed» by Alexander Kosenkov, directed by Vasiliy Fyodorov
1987 - (replacement) Shubin, «On the Eve» by Ivan Turgenev, directed by Vladimir Sedov
1987 - (replacement) Mykin, «A Profitable Position» by Alexander Ostrovsky, directed by Vladimir Beylis
1988 - (premiere) Fanda «The House in Heaven» by Jiří Hubač, directed by Zdeněk Míka (Czechoslovak Socialist Republic)
1989 - (premiere) Pancho, «The Night of the Iguana» by Tennessee Williams, directed by Theodore Mann (USA)
1989 - (replacement) Gavrila, «The Little Humpbacked Horse» by Pyotr Yershov, directed by Roman Sokolov
1989 - (replacement) Batman, «The Father» by August Strindberg, directed by Eduard Martsevich
1990 - (premiere) Oprichnik, «Prince Serebrenni» by Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, directed by Vitaliy Ivanov
1990 - (premiere) Teacher of fencing, «The Bourgeois Gentleman » by Jean-Baptiste Molière, directed by Ilan Ronen (Israel)
1991 - (replacement) Boris's servant, «Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich» by Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, directed by Boris Ravenskikh
1991 - (replacement) Gryaznoy, «Prince Serebrenni» by Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, directed by Vitaliy Ivanov
1994 - (replacement) Alexander Nikitich Romanov, «Tsar Boris» by Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, directed by Vladimir Beylis
1994 - (replacement) Milon, «The Minor» by Denis Fonvizin, directed by Vitaliy Ivanov
1994 - (replacement) Lev Sapega, «Tsar Boris» by Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, directed by Vladimir Beylis
1994 - (replacement) Prince Repnin, «Tsar Boris» by Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, directed by Vladimir Beylis
1995 - (replacement) Clerk, «There Was Not a Single Penny, and Suddenly There is a Dime» by Alexander Ostrovsky, directed by Eduard Martsevich
1997 - (replacement) Gregoriy Nagoy, «Tsar Ivan the Terrible» by Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, directed by Vladimir Dragunov
1997 - (replacement) Stremyanniy, «Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich» by Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, directed by Boris Ravenskikh
1998 - (replacement) Baklushin, «There Was Not a Single Penny, and Suddenly There is a Dime» by Alexander Ostrovsky, directed by Eduard Martsevich
1998 - (replacement) Gavryushka, «Uncle's Dream» by Fyodor Dostoevsky, directed by Alexander Chetverkin
1998 - (premiere) Brevet, «Resurrection» by Leo Tolstoy, directed by Eduard Martsevich
1999 - (replacement) Kuteykin, «The Minor» by Denis Fonvizin, directed by Vitaliy Ivanov
1999 - (replacement) Simonson, «Resurrection» by Leo Tolstoy, directed by Eduard Martsevich
1999 - (replacement) Novodvorov, «Resurrection» by Leo Tolstoy, directed by Eduard Martsevich
1999 - (premiere) Passek, «Chronicles of the Palace Coup» by Galina Turchina, directed by Vladimir Beylis
2000 - (replacement) Prince Sitsky, «Tsar Boris» by Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, directed by Vladimir Beylis
2001 - (replacement) Khomyak, «Prince Serebrenni» by Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, directed by Vitaliy Ivanov
2002 - (replacement) Maxim Skuratov, «Prince Serebrenni» by Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, directed by Vitaliy Ivanov
2004 - (replacement) Servant, «Money to Burn» by Alexander Ostrovsky, directed by Vitaliy Ivanov
2004 - (premiere) Waiter, «Wedding! Wedding! Wedding» by Anton Chekhov, directed by Vitaliy Ivanov
2004 - (replacement) Mukhoyarov, «Truth is Good, but Happiness is Better» by Alexander Ostrovsky, directed by Sergey Zhenovach
2004 - (replacement) Voeykov, «Tsar Boris» by Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, directed by Vladimir Beylis
2005 - (replacement) Yat, «Wedding! Wedding! Wedding» by Anton Chekhov, directed by Vitaliy Ivanov
2007 - (premiere) Dmitry Ivanovich Shuiskiy, «Dmitry Pretender and Vasily Shuisky» by Alexander Ostrovsky, directed by Vladimir Dragunov
2008 - (premiere) Doctor Genoni, «Mad, Mad Henry» by Luigi Pirandello, directed by Vladimir Beylis
2009 - (replacement) Dr. Purgon, «The Imaginary Invalid»by J.-B. Molière, directed by Sergey Zhenovach
2009 - (premiere) Marquis de Lessac, a player, «The Life and Love of Monsieur de Molière, or The Cabal of Hypocrites» by Mikhail Bulgakov, directed by Vladimir Dragunov
2009 - (premiere) Minister, «Smart Things» by Samuil Marshak, directed by Vasiliy Fyodorov
2011 - (replacement) Babieca, «Secrets of the Madrid Court» by Eugène Scribe, Ernest Leguvé, directed by Vladimir Beylis
2012 - (replacement) Dobchinsky, «The Government Inspector» by Nikolay Gogol, directed by Yuri Solomin and Vasiliy Fyodorov
2014 - (premiere) Count Nikita Ivanovich Panin, «The Theatre of the Empress» by Edvard Radzinsky, directed by Vladimir Dragunov
2015 - (premiere) Margaritov, «Late Love» by Alexander Ostrovsky, directed by Andrey Tsisaruk
2016 - (premiere) Balabaykin, Comedian, Vorobyov-Sokolov, «Re-reading Chekhov» (based on Anton Chekhov's short stories), directed by Elena Olenina
2016 - (replacement) Luca, «Wedding! Wedding! Wedding» by Anton Chekhov, directed by Vitaliy Ivanov
2017 - (premiere) Count Gloucester, «King Lear» by William Shakespeare, directed by Anton Yakovlev
2018 - (premiere) First merchant, «Time of Troubles. 1609-1611» by Vladimir Medinskiy, directed by Vladimir Beylis