Alexey Nikolayevich Pokrovsky (; March 1, 1924 – August 30, 2009) was an actor and singer,

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(1981).

Biography

In 1945 he was accepted into the troupe of the

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. In 1977 he left the theatre because of divergences in his views with

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. From the end of the 1940s he appeared in films, including in the films '' The Star'' (1953) and '' True Friends'' (1954). He became well known as a performer of songs and romances. In the 1960s and 1980s, he sang 12 musical and poetic compositions on television, in which the best poems and songs of the era were presented in the interpretation of the artist, who accompanied himself on a small Viennese seven-string

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. Laureate of the festivals

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1974 and 1975. He died on August 30, 2009. He was buried in Moscow at the Vagankovskoye Cemetery (plot 26).

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Pokrovsky, Alexey 1924 births 2009 deaths Male actors from Moscow Singers from Moscow Soviet male film actors Soviet male stage actors Soviet male singers Honored Artists of the RSFSR People's Artists of the RSFSR Burials at Vagankovo Cemetery 20th-century Russian male singers