Nikolai Cherkasov

    Known For

    Acting

    Birthday

    July 27, 1903

    Day of Death

    September 14, 1966 (63 years old)

    Place of Birth

    St Petersburg, Russian Empire

    Nikolai Cherkasov

    Biography

    An outstanding Soviet theater and film actor. Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1937). People's Artist of the RSFSR (03/11/1939). People's Artist of the USSR (02.26.1947). He graduated from the Institute of Performing Arts (1926). Since 1919 - a mimic artist of the Petrograd Mariinsky Opera and Ballet Theater, the Bolshoi Drama Theater and other theaters. In the years 1926-1929 - actor of the Leningrad Youth Theater. In 1929-1931 - artist of the Leningrad and Moscow music halls. In the years 1931-1933 - artist of the Leningrad Mobile Theater "Comedy". In 1933-1965 - artist of the Leningrad Academic Drama Theater named after Pushkin. Nikolai Cherkasov is the only actor whose face is imprinted on the order. Stalin personally chose and approved the portrait of Cherkasov for one of the highest state awards - the Soviet Order of Alexander Nevsky. Member of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR 1-2 convocations. Member of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR 3-4 convocations (1950-1958). Chairman of the Leningrad branch of the WTO (since 1948). Member of the Soviet Peace Committee (since 1949). Member of the CPSU (b) since 1940. September 14, Nikolai Konstantinovich died at the 64th year of life. When the great actor passed away, one of his students said that he died not from heart failure, but from insufficient heartiness... The actor was buried in the Necropolis of Artists of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra in Leningrad. July 27, 1970 the name of Cherkasov was assigned to one of the streets in Leningrad.

    Known For

    • Alexander Nevsky

      Alexander Nevsky

      1938

    • Ivan the Terrible, Part I

      Ivan the Terrible, Part I

      1944

    • Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot

      Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot

      1958

    • Why We Fight: The Battle of Russia

      Why We Fight: The Battle of Russia

      1943

    • Happiness

      Happiness

      1935

    • Don Quixote

      Don Quixote

      1957

    • Spring

      Spring

      1947

    • Lenin in 1918

      Lenin in 1918

      1939

    • Capt. Grant's Family

      Capt. Grant's Family

      1936

    • Peter the First, Part I

      Peter the First, Part I

      1937

    • Peter the First, Part II

      Peter the First, Part II

      1938

    • The Battle of Stalingrad

      The Battle of Stalingrad

      1949

    • Baltic Deputy

      Baltic Deputy

      1937

    • Mussorgsky

      Mussorgsky

      1950

    • The Invincible

      The Invincible

      1943