Grigori Aleksandrov

Grigori Vassílievitx Mormonenko

Born January 22, 1903· Yekaterinburg, Russian Empire

† Died December 16, 1983

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Emerging from Yekaterinburg's opera house where he began as a child assistant and later graduated as a violinist in 1917, Grigori Aleksandrov moved to Moscow, studied directing and briefly managed a cinema before meeting Sergei Eisenstein in 1921. Their partnership produced several silent-era milestones-Aleksandrov co-wrote Strike, acted in Battleship Potemkin, and co-directed October and The Gene…

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources