Mikhail Mikhaylovich Moskvin (russian: Михаил Михайлович Москвин, 19 September 1877,

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, Imperial Russia, — 18 August 1948, Moscow,

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) was a Russian and Soviet stage actor and theatre director, better known by his stage name Mikhail Tarkhanov (Тарханов). Having made his stage debut in 1898 on stage the

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Theatre, he performed in numerous troupes (including those led by Nikolai Sinelnikov and

Vasily Kachalov Vasily Ivanovich Kachalov (russian: Василий Иванович Качалов; – 30 September 1948), was one of Russia's most renowned actors. He worked closely and often with Konstantin Stanislavski. He led the so-called Kachalov Group wi ...

) before joining the Moscow Art Theatre in 1922 where he soon became one of the leading actors and, in the late 1920s, a stage director. In 1935 he started to teach drama and in 1942-1948 was the head of

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. In 1937 Tarkhanov was awarded the prestigious People's Artist of the USSR title. He was the recipient on numerous high-profile Soviet state awards, including the

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(1838, 1947) and the

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(1937) as well as the

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laureate (1943, 1st Grade). In 1923-1937 he was cast in 9 films, most of them the Russian classics adaptations, including '' Raskolnikow'', ''The Storm'' (1933), ''

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'' (1934), ''Dubrovsky'' (1936) and '' Pyotr Pervyy'' (1937). The actor

Ivan Moskvin Ivan Mikhailovich Moskvin (russian: Иван Михайлович Москвин; 18 June 1874, in Moscow – 16 February 1946, in Moscow) was a Russian and Soviet actor and theater director. People's Artist of the USSR (1936). He became director ...

was his younger brother.Тарханов Михаил Михайлович
in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia.

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Tarkhanov, Mikhail Soviet male actors 1877 births 1948 deaths Male actors from Moscow Male actors from the Russian Empire