Born April 25, 1928· Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia]
† Died November 30, 2013
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Having begun his artistic training at Moscow’s Shchukin Theatrical School, he entered the Vakhtianov State Academic Theatre in 1952 where he eventually amassed more than seventy stage roles, from Casanova to Prokofiev. His cinematic breakthrough arrived with the psychologically demanding portrayal of Prince Myshkin in Ivan Pyryev’s adaptation of The Idiot (1958), after which he became a staple of…
