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Andrei Mironov (actor)
Andrei Aleksandrovich Mironov (; 7 March 1941 – 16 August 1987) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor who played lead roles in some of the most popular Soviet films, such as '' The Diamond Arm'', '' Beware of the Car'' and '' Twelve Chairs''. Mironov was also a popular singer. Early life Mironov was born in Moscow to Maria Vladimirovna Mironova, a Russian, and , a Russian Jew. His parents were both well-known actors and performed together as the comedy duo "Mironova and Menaker ()". Career Mironov studied in the Vakhtangov Theatre School during the early 1950s. From 1958 to 1962, he studied acting at the Moscow Shchukin School. From June 18, 1962, to 1987, Mironov was a permanent member of the trope at the Moscow Theatre of Satire. In 1961, he acted in his first film ''What If This Is Love?'' In 1963, he starred in the comedy '' Three Plus Two'' by Genrikh Oganesyan, and then in the film '' My Younger Brother'' by Aleksandr Zarkhi. His real success came with the re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moscow
Moscow is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Russia by population, largest city of Russia, standing on the Moskva (river), Moskva River in Central Russia. It has a population estimated at over 13 million residents within the city limits, over 19.1 million residents in the urban area, and over 21.5 million residents in Moscow metropolitan area, its metropolitan area. The city covers an area of , while the urban area covers , and the metropolitan area covers over . Moscow is among the world's List of largest cities, largest cities, being the List of European cities by population within city limits, most populous city entirely in Europe, the largest List of urban areas in Europe, urban and List of metropolitan areas in Europe, metropolitan area in Europe, and the largest city by land area on the European continent. First documented in 1147, Moscow became the capital of the Grand Principality of Moscow, which led the unification of the Russian lan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yevgeny Vakhtangov
Yevgeny Bagrationovich Vakhtangov (also spelled Evgeny or Eugene; ; 13 February 1883 – 29 May 1922) was a Russian actor and theatre director who founded the Vakhtangov Theatre. He was a friend and mentor of Michael Chekhov.Martin BanhamThe Cambridge guide to theatre Cambridge University Press, 1995, p. 1157:"''Armenian born, Vakhtangov studied law at Moscow University before enrolling at A. I. Adashev’s drama school, where he was taught by, among others, Leopold Sulerzhitsky''." He is known for his distinctive style of theatre, his most notable production being ''Princess Turandot'' in 1922. Early life and education Vakhtangov was born to an Armenian father and a Russian mother in Vladikavkaz, Terek Oblast (now the capital of Northern Ossetia). He was educated at Moscow State University for a short time before joining the Moscow Art Theatre in 1911. Career Vakhtangov rose in the ranks at the Moscow Art Theatre, and by 1920 he was in charge of his own theatre studio. Fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Zakharov Mark Anatolyevich Zakharov (; 13 October 1933 – 28 September 2019) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film director, screenwriter and pedagogue best known for his fantasy parable movies. He was named People's Artist of the USSR in 1991. Zakharov served as the artistic director at the Lenkom Theatre from 1973 till his death. He gathered a "dream team" of actors and reestablished Lenkom as one of the leading Soviet theatres.  |
People's Artist Of The RSFSR
People's Artist of the RSFSR (, ''Narodnyj artist RSFSR'') was an honorary title granted to Soviet Union artists, including theatre and film directors, actors, choreographers, music performers, and orchestra conductors, who had outstanding achievements in the arts, and who lived in the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR). This title was one rank below Honored Artist of the RSFSR and one above People's Artist of the USSR. The title was introduced on 10 August 1931. In 1992, after the Russian SFSR was renamed as the Russian Federation, it was replaced with People's Artist of Russia. List The year of assignment is not set * Alexander Kramov (1885–1951), actor, theater director * Tamara Makarova (1907–1997), film actress * Vera Michurina-Samoilova (1866–1948), theater actress * Nikolay Svetlovidov (1889–1970), theater and film actor * Yevdokiya Turchaninova (1870–1963), theater actress * Alexandra Yablochkina (1866–1964), theater actress 1918 * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuri Nikulin
Yuri Vladimirovich Nikulin (; 18 December 1921 – 21 August 1997) was a Soviet and Russian actor and clown who starred in many popular films. He is best known for his roles in Leonid Gaidai's comedies, such as ''The Diamond Arm'' and ''Kidnapping, Caucasian Style'', although he occasionally starred in dramatic roles and performed in Moscow Circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard, Moscow Circus. He was awarded the title of People's Artist of the USSR in 1973 and Hero of Socialist Labour in 1990. He also received a number of state awards, including the prestigious Order of Lenin, which he received twice in his lifetime. Biography Early years Nikulin was born just after the end of the Russian civil war, in Demidov, Smolensk Oblast. His father Vladimir Andreyevich was a critic, an author of satirical plays and a director in Demidov's local Drama theatre. Yuri’s mother Lidiya was an actress there. They got married in the early 1920s and in 1925 moved to Moscow. In Moscow, Yuri entered ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anatoly Papanov
Anatoli Dmitriyevich Papanov (; 31 October 1922 – 5 August 1987) was a Soviet and Russian actor, drama teacher, and theatre director at the Moscow Satire Theatre where he served for almost 40 years. A prominent character actor, Papanov is mostly remembered for his comedy roles in a duo with his friend Andrei Mironov (actor), Andrei Mironov, although he had many dramatic roles as well. As a voice actor, he contributed to over one hundred cartoons. He was named People's Artist of the USSR in 1973 and awarded the USSR State Prize posthumously. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Innokenty Smoktunovsky
Innokenty Mikhailovich Smoktunovsky (; born ''Smoktunovich'', 28 March 19253 August 1994) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor. He was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1974 and a Hero of Socialist Labour in 1990. Early life Smoktunovsky was born in a Siberian village in a peasant family of Belarusians, Belarusian ethnicity. It was once rumored that he came from a Polish family, even nobility, but the actor himself denied these theories by stating his family was Belarusian and not of nobility. He served in the Red Army during World War II and fought in the battles Battle of Kursk, of Kursk, Battle of the Dnieper, the Dnieper and Battle of Kiev (1943), Kiev. In 1946, he joined a theatre in Krasnoyarsk, later moving to Moscow. In 1957, he was invited by Georgy Tovstonogov to join the Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theater, Bolshoi Drama Theatre of Saint Petersburg, Leningrad, where he stunned the public with his dramatic interpretation of Prince Myshkin in Fyodor Dostoev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eldar Ryazanov
Eldar Aleksandrovich Ryazanov (; 18 November 1927 – 30 November 2015) was a Soviet and Russian film director, screenwriter, poet, actor and pedagogue whose popular comedies, satirizing the daily life of the Soviet Union and Russia, are celebrated throughout the former Soviet Union and former Warsaw Pact countries. Biography Eldar Aleksandrovich Ryazanov was born in Samara. His father, Aleksandr Semyonovich Ryazanov, was a diplomat who worked in Tehran. His mother, Sofya Mikhailovna (née Shusterman), was of Jewish descent. In 1930, the family moved to Moscow, and soon his parents divorced. He was then raised by his mother and her new husband, Lev Mikhailovich Kopp. In 1937 his father was arrested by the Stalinist government and subsequently served 18 years in the correctional labour camps. Ryazanov began to create films in the early 1950s. In 1955, Ivan Pyryev, then a major force in the Soviet film industry, suggested to him to begin work on his film Carnival Night. At fir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aleksandr Zarkhi
Aleksandr Grigoryevich Zarkhi (; 18 February 1908 – 27 January 1997) was a Soviet and Russian film director and screenwriter. People's Artist of the USSR (1969). Hero of Socialist Labour (1978). His film ''Twenty Six Days from the Life of Dostoyevsky'' was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 31st Berlin International Film Festival in 1981. Filmography * ''The Song of Metal (Песнь о металле)'' (1928); documentary * '' Wind in the Face (Ветер в лицо)'' (1930); co-directed with Iosif Kheifits * ''Noon (Полдень)'' (1931); co-directed with Iosif Kheifits * '' My Motherland (Моя Родина)'' (1933); co-directed with Iosif Kheifits * '' Hectic Days (Горячие денечки)'' (1935); co-directed with Iosif Kheifits * '' Baltic Deputy (Депутат Балтики)'' (1937); co-directed with Iosif Kheifits * ''Member of the Government (Член правительства)'' (1940); co-directed with Iosif Kheifits * '' His Name Is Sukhe-B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
