Biography
In 1982 he graduated from Mikhail 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 40 years at the Maly Theatre, Sergei Veshchev performed more than 70 roles in total that differ in scale and genre. He performed in a great number of historical plays: Tsar Boris, Prince Serebrenni, Tsar Ivan the Terrible by Aleksey Tolstoy, etc. Sergei Veshchev is also highly involved in children's plays. He 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. He has repeatedly saved the theatre, urgently replacing the actor and mastering the complex material in the shortest possible time.
For many years Sergei 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.
Sergei Veshchev 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. He 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).
Repertoire
Roles at the Maly TheatreSkalozub's adjutant (Woe from Wit by Alexander Griboedov, director Vitaliy Ivanov, 1982)
A servant (Before Sunset by Gerhart Hauptmann, director Leonid Kheyfetz, 1982)
Lyulyukov (The Governmnet Inspector by Nikolai Gogol, directors Evgeny Vesnik and Yuri Solomin, 1982)
An artisan (Fiesco's Conspiracy at Genoa by Friedrich Schiller, director Leonid Kheyfetz, 1982)
A detective (In Agony by Miroslav Krleža, director Stevo Žigon, 1982)
Pavlik (Wild Angel by Alexei Kolomiets, director Vladimir Sedov, 1982)
Don Luis (Jealous of Herself by Tirso de Molina, director Leonid Kheyfetz, 1982)
Second guard (The Little Humpbacked Horse by Pyotr Yershov, director Roman Sokolov, 1983)
Dobchinsky (The Governmnet Inspector by Nikolai Gogol, directors Evgeny Vesnik and Yuri Solomin, 1983)
Okoemov's servant (Handsome Man by Alexander Ostrovsky, director Marianna Turbina, 1984)
Young master (The Stone Flower by Pavel Bazhov, director Vitaliy Ivanov, 1984)
Young lackey (Smart Things by Samuil Marshak, director Evgeny Simonov, 1985)
A tavern servant (The Governmnet Inspector by Nikolai Gogol, directors Evgeny Vesnik and Yuri Solomin, 1985)
Messenger (Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich by Alexei Tolstoy, director Boris Ravenskikh, 1985)
Clown Seva (My Favorite Clown by Vasiliy Livanov, director Vitaliy Solomin, 1985)
Trishka (The Minor by Denis Fonvizin, director Vitaliy Ivanov, 1986)
Reporter (Ivan by Anatoliy Kudryavtsev, director Vladimir Andreev, 1986)
Oduvanchik (Private Soldiers by Alexei Dudarev, directors Boris Lvov-Anokhin and Vasiliy Fyodorov, 1986)
Govikem (The Man Who Laughs by Victor Hugo, directors Igor Ilyinskiy and Vladimir Martens, 1986)
Student-trainee (To Be Discussed by Alexander Kosenkov, director Vasiliy Fyodorov, 1987)
Shubin (On the Eve by Ivan Turgenev, director Vladimir Sedov, 1987)
Mykin (A Profitable Position by Alexander Ostrovsky, director Vladimir Beylis, 1987)
Fanda (The House in Heaven by Jiří Hubač, director Zdeněk Míkam, 1988)
Pancho (The Night of the Iguana by Tennessee Williams, director Theodore Mann, 1989)
Gavrila (The Little Humpbacked Horse by Pyotr Yershov, director Roman Sokolov, 1989)
Batman (The Father by August Strindberg, director Eduard Martsevich, 1989)
Oprichnik (Prince Serebrenni by Alexei Tolstoy, director Vitaliy Ivanov, 1990)
Teacher of fencing (The Bourgeois Gentleman by Jean-Baptiste Molière, director Ilan Ronen, 1990)
Boris's servant (Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich by Alexei Tolstoy, director Boris Ravenskikh, 1991)
Gryaznoy (Prince Serebrenni by Alexei Tolstoy, director Vitaliy Ivanov, 1991)
Alexander Nikitich Romanov (Tsar Boris by Alexei Tolstoy, director Vladimir Beylis, 1994)
Milon (The Minor by Denis Fonvizin, director Vitaliy Ivanov, 1994)
Lev Sapega, Prince Repnin (Tsar Boris by Alexei Tolstoy, director Vladimir Beylis, 1994)
Clerk (There Was Not a Single Penny, and Suddenly There is a Dime by Alexander Ostrovsky, director Eduard Martsevich, 1995)
Gregoriy Nagoy (Tsar Ivan the Terrible by Alexei Tolstoy, director Vladimir Dragunov, 1997)
Stremyanniy (Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich by Alexei Tolstoy, director Boris Ravenskikh, 1997)
Baklushin (There Was Not a Single Penny, and Suddenly There is a Dime by Alexander Ostrovsky, director Eduard Martsevich, 1998)
Gavryushka (Uncle's Dream by Fyodor Dostoevsky, director Alexander Chetverkin, 1998)
Brevet (Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy, director Eduard Martsevich, 1998)
Kuteykin (The Minor by Denis Fonvizin, director Vitaliy Ivanov, 1999)
Simonson, Novodvorov (Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy, director Eduard Martsevich, 1999)
Passek (Chronicles of the Palace Coup by Galina Turchina, director Vladimir Beylis, 1999)
Prince Sitsky (Tsar Boris by Alexei Tolstoy, director Vladimir Beylis, 2000)
Khomyak (Prince Serebrenni by Alexei Tolstoy, director Vitaliy Ivanov, 2001)
Maxim Skuratov (Prince Serebrenni by Alexei Tolstoy, director Vitaliy Ivanov, 2002)
Servant (Money to Burn by Alexander Ostrovsky, director Vitaliy Ivanov, 2004)
Waiter (Wedding! Wedding! Wedding! after works by Anton Chekhov, director Vitaliy Ivanov, 2004)
Mukhoyarov (Truth is Good, but Happiness is Better by Alexander Ostrovsky, director Sergei Zhenovach, 2004)
Voeykov (Tsar Boris by Alexei Tolstoy, director Vladimir Beylis, 2004)
Yat (Wedding! Wedding! Wedding! after works by Anton Chekhov, director Vitaliy Ivanov, 2005)
Dmitry Ivanovich Shuiskiy (Dmitry Pretender and Vasily Shuisky by Alexander Ostrovsky, director Vladimir Dragunov, 2007)
Doctor Genoni (Mad, Mad Henry by Luigi Pirandello, director Vladimir Beylis, 2008)
Dr. Purgon (The Imaginary Invalid by J.-B. Molière, director Sergei Zhenovach, 2009)
Marquis de Lessac, a player (The Life and Love of Monsieur de Molière, or The Cabal of Hypocrites by Mikhail Bulgakov, director Vladimir Dragunov, 2009)
Minister (Smart Things by Samuil Marshak, director Vasiliy Fyodorov, 2009)
Babieca (Secrets of the Madrid Court by Eugène Scribe, Ernest Leguvé, director Vladimir Beylis, 2011)
Dobchinsky (The Government Inspector by Nikolai Gogol, directors Yuri Solomin and Vasiliy Fyodorov, 2012)
Count Nikita Ivanovich Panin (The Theatre of the Empress by Edvard Radzinsky, director Vladimir Dragunov, 2014)
Margaritov (Late Love by Alexander Ostrovsky, director Andrey Tsisaruk, 2015)
Balabaykin, Comedian, Vorobyov-Sokolov (Re-reading Chekhov based on Anton Chekhov's short stories, director Elena Olenina, 2016)
Luca (Wedding! Wedding! Wedding! after works by Anton Chekhov, director Vitaliy Ivanov, 2016)
Count Gloucester (King Lear by William Shakespeare, director Anton Yakovlev, 2017)
First merchant (Time of Troubles. 1609-1611 by Vladimir Medinskiy, director Vladimir Beylis, 2018)
Dunya's husband (Barbarians by Maxim Gorky director Vladimir Beylis, 2020)
The Chairman (Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol, director Alexei Dubrovsky, 2021)
Bazile (The Marriage of Figaro by Pierre Beaumarchais, director Vladimir Dragunov, 2022)
Professor Bundarev (Heart of a Dog by Mikhail Bulgakov, director Alexei Dubrovsky, 2022)