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Vasili Vanin

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Vasili Vanin
Born
Vasili Vasilyevich Vanin

13 January 1898
Died12 May 1951 (aged 53)
Resting placeNovodevichy Cemetery
Occupation(s)Actor, theater director, pedagogue
AwardsPeople's Artist of the USSR

Vasili Vasilyevich Vanin (Russian: Васи́лий Васи́льевич Ва́нин; 13 January 1898 – 12 May 1951) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor, theatre director and pedagogue.[1] People's Artist of the USSR (1949).[2]

Biography

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Vasili Vanin was born on 13 January 1898 in Tambov, in the family of a small railway employee. Having lost his father early, in 1906 he was assigned to an orphanage[3]/ Between 1924 and 1950 he was actor and director in the Mossovet Theatre; from 1950 the leader of the Moscow Pushkin Drama Theatre.

Filmography

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Honors and awards

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References

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Bibliography

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  • Christie, Ian / Taylor, Richard. The Film Factory: Russian and Soviet Cinema in Documents 1896-1939. Routledge, 2012.
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