On September 10, 2009, People’s Artist of Russia Nikolay MARTON will celebrate his 75^th birthday.  Nikolay Marton not only is a coryphaeus of the Alexandrinsky Stage, but also one of the most demanded actors of the company currently living through his creative renaissance.  He plays in Valery Fokin’s performances “The Inspector General” by N. Gogol, “Ksenia. The History of Love” by N. Levanov, and “The Living Corpse” by L. Tolstoy.  After A. Bely’s performance “Petersburg” where Marton played the role of Senator Appolon Ableukhov, the actor composed a unique creative alliance with director Andrey Moguchy, who engages the actor in all his performances at the Alexandrinsky Theater, often giving him quite paradoxical and unexpected roles.  In Gogol’s “The Ivans” Marton is brilliant as Ivan Ivanovich Pererepenko; in the “Gardeners” (a joint project with the Formal Theater) Nikolay Marton is playing a twenty year-old young man who has decided to take his own life; in the new premiere-to-be “Izotov” by M. Durnenkov the patriarchal maitre of the Alexandrinsky Stage has got the role of a strange and provocative character appearing to the public alternatively as an angel, a virtuoso-magician, and a peacefully playing chess veteran cottager.  All impersonations of Nikolay Marton are marked with exquisite exactness, filigree of the acting technique, and the splendor of actor’s mastership.   This impersonation is of the purest tint, but at the same time, it has all the deepness and personal volume which the actor contributes into the created stage image.  Nikolay Marton has intensively and fruitfully worked for many years at the radio; he cooperates with the Capella and participates in concerts and declamation programs.  His voice of unique beauty, expressive and rich with overtones, is on high demand in various audio projects.  Recently, he recorded a disk of “Psalms in interpretation of Russian poets of the 18^th century,” where he read spiritual poems of Lomonosov, Trediakovsky, and Derzhavin.  A creative evening with the actor will take place at the Capella on October 7.