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Boris Nikolaevich Livanov
Борис Ливанов
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8 May 1904 - 22 September 1972
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Boris Nikolaevich Livanov was born on May 8, 1904 in Moscow in an acting family. He studied at the 4th Studio of the Moscow Art Theatre, began performing on the stage of the Moscow Art Theatre in 1924 and soon became one of the leading artists of this theater. Over the years of acting, Boris Livanov played the roles of both the classical repertoire and the plays of modern authors with equal success; among his creative achievements in the theater - Nozdrev in "Dead Souls" by N.V. Gogol, Chatsky in
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Boris Nikolaevich Livanov was born on May 8, 1904 in Moscow in an acting family. He studied at the 4th Studio of the Moscow Art Theatre, began performing on the stage of the Moscow Art Theatre in 1924 and soon became one of the leading artists of this theater. Over the years of acting, Boris Livanov played the roles of both the classical repertoire and the plays of modern authors with equal success; among his creative achievements in the theater - Nozdrev in "Dead Souls" by N.V. Gogol, Chatsky in "Woe from Wit" by A.S. Griboyedov, Soleny in "Three Sisters" by A.P. Chekhov, Zabelin and Rybakov in "Kremlin chimes" by Pogodin, the title role in "Egor Bulychov and others" by M. Gorky. Since the 1950s, he began to act as a theater director, putting in 1989 the play, traditional for the Moscow Art Theatre, Chekhov’s “The Seagull”.
In the cinema Boris Livanov began to act in 1924, his first role playing in the film “Morozko” (1924), directed by Yuri Zhelyabuzhsky on the Russian folk tale. The actor worked with such famous Soviet directors as Sergei Eisenstein, Vsevolod Pudovkin, Grigory Kozintsev, Mikhail Romm, Alexander Zarkhi, Joseph Heifitz, Ilya Averbakh, and among the best roles of Boris Livanov in the movie can be called Vladimir Dubrovsky in the film adaptation of A.S. Pushkin's novel "Dubrovsky" (1936), Prince Pozharsky in the historical film "Minin and Pozharsky" (1939), Captain Rudnev in the heroic film "Cruiser "Varyag" (1941), "The title role of Zakhlemok" (1970). Brightly and powerfully, the actor created a temperamental image of Prince Potemkin in the historical and biographical film by Mikhail Romm “Admiral Ushakov”, released in 1953.