Sergei Barkhin is the son of Mikhail Grigorievich Barkhin and a representative of the branched dynasty of the Barkhin, mainly architects, was born in Moscow in 1938. Graduated from Moscow Architectural Institute in 1962. The autobiography posted on the website barkhin.ru speaks best about studying and working as an architect: “I studied with MV Turkus (formalist), G. Ya. Movchan (constructivist and postmodernist), MP Parusnikov and S. Kh. Satunts (neoclassicists). For three years he worked as an architect in the studio of L. N. Pavlov, (constructivist, neoclassicist and modern architect) in the brigade of I. Ya. Yadrov and I. P. Zotova, in the group of M. Krasnikov in Mosproekt 2”.
The autobiography of Sergei Barkhin in general, I must say, is remarkably written. The awards, of which there were actually many, including the People's Artist of Russia, are listed in passing at the end of the text, but the full names of the nanny, several school teachers are named and friendship is noted in detail, separately - acquaintance with nonconformists, and “In 1965, a tourist a trip to the Netherlands and Belgium, when I realized that I could not leave Russia. A thorough acquaintance with contemporary art and Western painting. The site of Sergei Barkhin is very informative, filled with systematized information, paintings, drawings and poems, and at the same time is somehow lyrical.
Known primarily as a set designer, Sergei Barkhin staged more than two hundred performances, was the chief designer of the Stanislavsky Theater (1988–1992) and artistic director-set designer of the Bolshoi Theater (1995–2000). He taught at GITIS. The first production - "The Ballad of a Sad Zucchini" by Edward Albee, co-authored with Mikhail Anikst, in 1967, but the very first - 1950 at the age of 12, "as a gift to the grandfather of G. B. Barkhin for his seventieth birthday. Three Musketeers". The latest performances are "The Expulsion" at the Mayakovsky Theater and "The Clown of the Lord God" at the Hermitage Theater, in 2017. Sergei Barkhin also worked in cinema and was engaged in book illustration, and at the end of his life he founded his own publishing house "Twins".
But Sergei Barkhin is also a "paper architect", a participant in competitions in the 1980s, where he made some of the projects himself, and some together with Mikhail Belov. In the magazine Project Classic, you can read his memories of the competitions. He is also the author of several works on the verge of architecture and theatrical scenery: the 1812 Year restaurant on Sadovo-Kudrinskaya (idea by Alexander Kuzmin, working project by Dmitry Pshenichnikov), and the interiors of the lobby of Mikhail Belov's Pompeian house in Filippovsky lane - a space that makes the house more more "Pompeian" than even its facades. Farewell to Sergei Barkhin will take place on November 21. Civil funeral service at the Mayakovsky Theater, Bolshaya Nikitskaya, 19/13, from 11 to 12:30. At 13:00 it will be possible to say goodbye to the People's Artist of Russia during a short stop of the ritual cortege next to the special theater for Sergei Mikhailovich - the Moscow Theater for Young People, the Mayakovsky Theater reports.
Many kind words about Sergei Barkhin have appeared on social networks today, here are a few posts.
