Mikhail Mikhailovich Yanshin (Russian: ÐœÐ¸Ñ…Ð°Ð¸Ì Ð»
ÐœÐ¸Ñ…Ð°Ì Ð¹Ð»Ð¾Ð²Ð¸Ñ‡ Ð¯Ì Ð½ÑˆÐ¸Ð½) (20 October 1902 â€" 17 July
1976) was a Soviet stage and film actor.Yanshin was born in the city
of Yukhnov, located in the present-day Kaluga Oblast. As a young man
he worked as a carpenter. In 1919 he volunteered for the Red Army.
Following the Russian Civil War, he enrolled at the school of the
Moscow Art Theatre, where his classmates included Mikhail Kedrov and
Boris Livanov. He joined the theatre's company in 1924 and remained a
member of the institution until his death.Yanshin's first notable
roles at the Art Theatre were as Dobchinsky in Gogol's The Government
Inspector and as the footman Petrushka in Griboyedov's Woe from Wit.
He came to greater attention in the role of Lariosik in Bulgakov's
Days of the Turbins, and thereafter began to receive work in other
theaters. From 1934 to 1939 he was artistic director of the Moscow
Theatre of the Forest Industry; from 1937 to 1941 he directed the
Romen Theatre; and from 1950 to 1963 he was chief director of the
Stanislavski and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre.
In 1963 Yanshin was criticized by the Soviet ministry of culture,
which disapproved of his staging contemporary, non-traditional plays;
he resigned and returned to the Moscow Art Theatre, where he was
instrumental in the hiring of the director Oleg Yefremov.In addition
to his theatrical work, Yanshin appeared in many films. He was a
frequent voice actor for Soyuzmultfilm cartoons, and often
collaborated with the animators Zinaida and Valentina Brumberg. In
addition to working as a voice actor, he also wrote the script of the
Brumbergs' 1951 film The Night Before Christmas.
ÐœÐ¸Ñ…Ð°Ì Ð¹Ð»Ð¾Ð²Ð¸Ñ‡ Ð¯Ì Ð½ÑˆÐ¸Ð½) (20 October 1902 â€" 17 July
1976) was a Soviet stage and film actor.Yanshin was born in the city
of Yukhnov, located in the present-day Kaluga Oblast. As a young man
he worked as a carpenter. In 1919 he volunteered for the Red Army.
Following the Russian Civil War, he enrolled at the school of the
Moscow Art Theatre, where his classmates included Mikhail Kedrov and
Boris Livanov. He joined the theatre's company in 1924 and remained a
member of the institution until his death.Yanshin's first notable
roles at the Art Theatre were as Dobchinsky in Gogol's The Government
Inspector and as the footman Petrushka in Griboyedov's Woe from Wit.
He came to greater attention in the role of Lariosik in Bulgakov's
Days of the Turbins, and thereafter began to receive work in other
theaters. From 1934 to 1939 he was artistic director of the Moscow
Theatre of the Forest Industry; from 1937 to 1941 he directed the
Romen Theatre; and from 1950 to 1963 he was chief director of the
Stanislavski and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre.
In 1963 Yanshin was criticized by the Soviet ministry of culture,
which disapproved of his staging contemporary, non-traditional plays;
he resigned and returned to the Moscow Art Theatre, where he was
instrumental in the hiring of the director Oleg Yefremov.In addition
to his theatrical work, Yanshin appeared in many films. He was a
frequent voice actor for Soyuzmultfilm cartoons, and often
collaborated with the animators Zinaida and Valentina Brumberg. In
addition to working as a voice actor, he also wrote the script of the
Brumbergs' 1951 film The Night Before Christmas.
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