Emerging from a legal education at Kharkov University, where he attended the Faculty of Law between 1900 and 1904, Naum Rogozhin turned to the stage early, joining the People’s House in Kharkov in 1901. By 1904 he entered the troupe of V.F. Komissarzhevskaya in St. Petersburg and subsequently performed across major theatrical venues in St. Petersburg, Moscow, Kiev and other cities, establishing a…