Vitali Sergeyevich Bezrukov (; born 1 January 1942 in

Gorky Oblast Nizhny Novgorod Oblast () is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is the city of Nizhny Novgorod. It has a population of 3,119,115 as of the 2021 Census. From 1932 to 1990 it was known as Gorky Oblast (). The oblast ...

), is a

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and Russian actor and

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director. He has made appearances with his son,

Sergei Bezrukov Sergey Vitalyevich Bezrukov (; born 18 October 1973) is a Soviet and Russian film and stage actor, singer, People's Artist of Russia, the laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation. He currently works at Tabakov Studio (the theatre of ...

, in two TV miniseries, ''

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'' (2002) and ''

Yesenin Sergei Alexandrovich Yesenin (, ; 1895 – 28 December 1925), sometimes spelled as Esenin, was a Russian lyric poet. He is one of the most popular and well-known Russian poets of the 20th century. One of his narratives was "lyrical evocations ...

'' (2005), as well as in the 2002 production of the play ''

Aleksandr Pushkin Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin () was a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era.Basker, Michael. Pushkin and Romanticism. In Ferber, Michael, ed., ''A Companion to European Romanticism''. Oxford: Blackwell, 2005. He is consid ...

'', which Vitali directed, at the

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Biography

After graduating from high school in the city of Gorky he enrolled in drama school Sverdlovsk theater. He graduated in 1966, Moscow Art Theatre School with honors. As a student of IV-th year has played a major role in the play named after

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"Oedipus Rex". He worked at the Moscow Art Theater, from 1969 he worked in Moscow Pushkin Drama Theatre. In the television film-opera "Anna Snegina" played poet Sergei Yesenin. From 1980 he worked in the Satire Theater.

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