Alexander Ivanovich Platonov (Russian: Ð Ð»ÐµÐºÑ Ð°Ð½Ð´Ñ€
Иванович Платонов, 1871â€"1934) was a Russian and
Soviet stage actor and reader in drama, better known under his stage
name Adashev (Рдашев) and associated with the Moscow Art
Theatre, in 1898â€"1913.Among his best-received parts there were those
of Bassanio (The Merchant of Venice, 1898), the Messenger (Antigona,
1899), Orcino (Twelfth Night, 1899), Alyoshka (The Lower Depths,
1902), Molchalin (Woe from Wit, 1906), Grandfather (The Blue Bird,
1908) and Zemlyanika (Revizor, 1908), of which he was the first
performer at MAT.In 1906 he became the head of the Adashev Drama
Courses (with such masters as Leopold Sulerzhitsky, Richard
Boleslawski, Vasily Kachalov, Vasily Luzhsky and Nina Litovtseva,
teaching). Soon the courses became immensely popular and acquired the
status of a preliminary school for actors willing to join MAT. Alumni
included Evgeny Vakhtangov, Serafima Birman, Vladimir Gotovtsev and
Maria Durasova.The courses folded in 1913 when most of the students
and tutors quit, and Adashev, accused of "violating the norms of
morality", was forced to leave Moscow. He spent the rest of his life
working in the Russian provinces, out of the spotlight. In 1923â€"1927
he read drama at the Kiev Russian Drama Theatre.
Иванович Платонов, 1871â€"1934) was a Russian and
Soviet stage actor and reader in drama, better known under his stage
name Adashev (Рдашев) and associated with the Moscow Art
Theatre, in 1898â€"1913.Among his best-received parts there were those
of Bassanio (The Merchant of Venice, 1898), the Messenger (Antigona,
1899), Orcino (Twelfth Night, 1899), Alyoshka (The Lower Depths,
1902), Molchalin (Woe from Wit, 1906), Grandfather (The Blue Bird,
1908) and Zemlyanika (Revizor, 1908), of which he was the first
performer at MAT.In 1906 he became the head of the Adashev Drama
Courses (with such masters as Leopold Sulerzhitsky, Richard
Boleslawski, Vasily Kachalov, Vasily Luzhsky and Nina Litovtseva,
teaching). Soon the courses became immensely popular and acquired the
status of a preliminary school for actors willing to join MAT. Alumni
included Evgeny Vakhtangov, Serafima Birman, Vladimir Gotovtsev and
Maria Durasova.The courses folded in 1913 when most of the students
and tutors quit, and Adashev, accused of "violating the norms of
morality", was forced to leave Moscow. He spent the rest of his life
working in the Russian provinces, out of the spotlight. In 1923â€"1927
he read drama at the Kiev Russian Drama Theatre.
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