Mikhail Mikhaylovich Moskvin (; 19 September 1877, in

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– 18 August 1948, in Moscow,

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) was a Russian and Soviet

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and theatre director, better known by his stage name Mikhail Tarkhanov (Тарханов). Having made his stage debut in 1898 on stage the

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Theatre, he performed in numerous troupes (including those led by

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and

Vasily Kachalov Vasily Ivanovich Kachalov (; – 30 September 1948), was one of Russia's most renowned actors. He worked closely and often with Konstantin Stanislavski. He led the so-called Kachalov Group within the Moscow Art Theatre. It was Kachalov who playe ...

) before joining the

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in 1922 where he soon became one of the leading actors and, in the late 1920s, a stage director. In 1935 he started to teach drama and in 1942-1948 was the head of

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. In 1937 Tarkhanov was awarded the prestigious

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title. He was the recipient on numerous high-profile Soviet state awards, including the

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(1838, 1947) and the

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(1937) as well as the Stalin Prize laureate (1943, 1st Grade). In 1923-1937 he was cast in 9 films, most of them the Russian classics adaptations, including '' Raskolnikow'', ''The Storm'' (1933), '' The Youth of Maxim'' (1934), ''Dubrovsky'' (1936) and '' Pyotr Pervyy'' (1937). The actor

Ivan Moskvin Ivan Mikhailovich Moskvin (; 18 June 1874, in Moscow – 16 February 1946, in Moscow) was a Russian and Soviet actor and theater director. People's Artist of the USSR (1936). He became director of the Moscow Art Theatre in 1943. He was a student ...

was his younger brother.Тарханов Михаил Михайлович
in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Tarkhanov, Mikhail Soviet male actors 1877 births 1948 deaths Male actors from Moscow Male actors from the Russian Empire