Rostislav Yanovich Plyatt (Russian: Ð Ð¾Ñ Ñ‚Ð¸Ñ Ð»Ð°Ð² Янович
ÐŸÐ»Ñ Ñ‚Ñ‚; 13 December [O.S. 30 November] 1908 â€" 30 June 1989) was
a Soviet theatre, film and radio actor. He was named People's Artist
of the USSR in 1961 and awarded the USSR State Prize in 1982.Born in
Rostov-on-Don (modern-day Rostov Oblast of Russia) as Rostislav
Ivanovich Plyat, the future actor was so obsessed with theatre that he
decided to "correct" his name at the passport office to make it more
euphonious and memorable. His father, Ivan Iosifovich Plyat, was a
lawyer of Polish descent, "although a very russified one". His
Ukrainian mother Zinaida Pavlovna Zakamennaya came from Poltava and
died eight years later from tuberculosis. Ivan Plyat then moved to
Moscow where he married Anna Nikolaevna Volikovskaya who raised
Rostislav as her own son. He was baptized in Russian Orthodoxy and
spoke Russian language only.Plyatt studied in the Moscow secondary
school where he visited drama classes led by a popular Maly Theatre
actor Vladimir Lebedev and then â€" by a Moscow Art Theatre actress
Varvara Sokolova-Zalesskaya who introduced him to the basics of the
Stanislavski's system. After that he decided to become a professional
actor and in 1926 unsuccessfully tried to join the Moscow Art Theatre
troupe.He then entered the Theatre-Studio led by Yuri Zavadsky where
he spent the next 11 years, performing in mostly comedy roles,
although with years he established himself as a serious drama actor.
Among his lifetime roles was George Bernard Shaw whom he portrayed in
1933 in The Devil's Disciple and then reprised in 1963 in both Caesar
and Cleopatra (where he also played Caesar) and Jerome Kilty's Dear
Liar: A Comedy of Letters.
ÐŸÐ»Ñ Ñ‚Ñ‚; 13 December [O.S. 30 November] 1908 â€" 30 June 1989) was
a Soviet theatre, film and radio actor. He was named People's Artist
of the USSR in 1961 and awarded the USSR State Prize in 1982.Born in
Rostov-on-Don (modern-day Rostov Oblast of Russia) as Rostislav
Ivanovich Plyat, the future actor was so obsessed with theatre that he
decided to "correct" his name at the passport office to make it more
euphonious and memorable. His father, Ivan Iosifovich Plyat, was a
lawyer of Polish descent, "although a very russified one". His
Ukrainian mother Zinaida Pavlovna Zakamennaya came from Poltava and
died eight years later from tuberculosis. Ivan Plyat then moved to
Moscow where he married Anna Nikolaevna Volikovskaya who raised
Rostislav as her own son. He was baptized in Russian Orthodoxy and
spoke Russian language only.Plyatt studied in the Moscow secondary
school where he visited drama classes led by a popular Maly Theatre
actor Vladimir Lebedev and then â€" by a Moscow Art Theatre actress
Varvara Sokolova-Zalesskaya who introduced him to the basics of the
Stanislavski's system. After that he decided to become a professional
actor and in 1926 unsuccessfully tried to join the Moscow Art Theatre
troupe.He then entered the Theatre-Studio led by Yuri Zavadsky where
he spent the next 11 years, performing in mostly comedy roles,
although with years he established himself as a serious drama actor.
Among his lifetime roles was George Bernard Shaw whom he portrayed in
1933 in The Devil's Disciple and then reprised in 1963 in both Caesar
and Cleopatra (where he also played Caesar) and Jerome Kilty's Dear
Liar: A Comedy of Letters.
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