Nikolay Konstantinovich Cherkasov (Russian: Ð Ð¸ÐºÐ¾Ð»Ð°Ì Ð¹
ÐšÐ¾Ð½Ñ Ñ‚Ð°Ð½Ñ‚Ð¸Ì Ð½Ð¾Ð²Ð¸Ñ‡ Ð§ÐµÑ€ÐºÐ°Ì Ñ Ð¾Ð²; 27 July [O.S. 14
July] 1903 â€" 14 September 1966) was a Soviet and Russian actor.
People's Artist of the USSR (1947).He was born in Saint Petersburg
(later Petrograd in 1914, and Leningrad from 1924 to 1991). From 1919
he was a mime artist in Petrograd's Maryinsky Theatre, the Bolshoi
Theatre, and elsewhere. After graduating from the Institute of Stage
Arts in 1926, he began acting in the Young Spectator's Theatre in
Leningrad.Cherkasov was one of Stalin's favorite actors and played
title roles in Sergei Eisenstein's monumental sound films Alexander
Nevsky (1938) and Parts I & II of Ivan the Terrible (1945 & 1946;
though Part II was not officially released until 1958 for political
reasons). He also played Jacques Paganel in the memorable 1936
adaptation of Jules Verne's The Children of Captain Grant. In the 1947
comedy Springtime Cherkasov appeared alongside other icons of
Stalinist cinema, Lyubov Orlova and Faina Ranevskaya. For the role of
Alexander Popov in the film Alexander Popov in 1951, he received a
Stalin Prize of the second degree. In 1957, Cherkasov portrayed Don
Quixote in director Grigori Kozintsev's screen adaptation of the
novel.
ÐšÐ¾Ð½Ñ Ñ‚Ð°Ð½Ñ‚Ð¸Ì Ð½Ð¾Ð²Ð¸Ñ‡ Ð§ÐµÑ€ÐºÐ°Ì Ñ Ð¾Ð²; 27 July [O.S. 14
July] 1903 â€" 14 September 1966) was a Soviet and Russian actor.
People's Artist of the USSR (1947).He was born in Saint Petersburg
(later Petrograd in 1914, and Leningrad from 1924 to 1991). From 1919
he was a mime artist in Petrograd's Maryinsky Theatre, the Bolshoi
Theatre, and elsewhere. After graduating from the Institute of Stage
Arts in 1926, he began acting in the Young Spectator's Theatre in
Leningrad.Cherkasov was one of Stalin's favorite actors and played
title roles in Sergei Eisenstein's monumental sound films Alexander
Nevsky (1938) and Parts I & II of Ivan the Terrible (1945 & 1946;
though Part II was not officially released until 1958 for political
reasons). He also played Jacques Paganel in the memorable 1936
adaptation of Jules Verne's The Children of Captain Grant. In the 1947
comedy Springtime Cherkasov appeared alongside other icons of
Stalinist cinema, Lyubov Orlova and Faina Ranevskaya. For the role of
Alexander Popov in the film Alexander Popov in 1951, he received a
Stalin Prize of the second degree. In 1957, Cherkasov portrayed Don
Quixote in director Grigori Kozintsev's screen adaptation of the
novel.
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