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Nikolay Khmelyov
Nikolai Pavlovich Khmelyov russian: Николай Павлович Хмелёв, — 1 November 1945) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor, theater director and pedagogue, associated with the Moscow Art Theatre and later the Yermolova Theatre. Biography Nikolai Khmelyov was born in Sormovsky City District, Sormovo, Nizhny Novgorod, to a working-class family. "A man who was highly ambitious, always dissatisfied with himself and difficult to contact with," he joined the MAT's Second Studio in 1919, soon to become "one of the most intriguing figures of the 'second generation' of MAT actors," according to the theatre historian Inna Solovyova. He excelled in the parts of Tsar Fyodor in ''Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich'' by Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Aleksey Tolstoy (1935), Karenin in ''Anna Karenina'' (1937), Tuzenbach in ''Three Sisters (play), Three Sisters'' by Anton Chekhov (1940), but before that as Alexey Turbin in ''The Days of the Turbins'' by Mikhail Bulgakov, which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sormovsky City District
Sormovsky City District (russian: Со́рмовский райо́н), or Sormovo (russian: Со́рмово), is one of the eight districts of the city of Nizhny Novgorod, Russia. It occupies the northwestern corner of the city, adjacent to the Volga River. Population: The village originally known as Soromovo () had existed since 1542. In 1849, the Sormovo Works—soon one of Russia's most important machine-building plants, later known as Krasnoye Sormovo—was founded; its owner had the village renamed to more euphonic ''Sormovo''. Although legally a village, it soon grew into a large workers' settlement; in 1922, Sormovo became a city; in 1929, it was amalgamated into the city of Nizhny Novgorod, becoming one of its districts. It is one of the city's industrial districts. Besides Krasnoye Sormovo, its well-known enterprises include the Volga Shipyard(which was spun off from Krasnoye Sormovo in 1970, and is geographically adjacent to its parent plant) and the Sormovo Confec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
