Erast Garin

Erast Gerasimov

Born October 28, 1902· Russian Empire

† Died September 4, 1980

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Born in Ryazan as Erast Gerasimov, he began acting in a military-district amateur troupe in 1919 and finished his studies in 1926 at the experimental workshops of the People’s Commissariat for Education, where Meyerhold and Chekhov shaped his emphasis on voice and gesture over Stanislavski’s naturalism. He became a leading comic presence in Meyerhold’s company alongside Igor Ilyinsky and Sergey Ma…

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources