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Nikolay Cherkasov
Николай Черкасов
Cherkasov in Alexander Nevsky, 1938
Born	(1903-07-27)July 27, 1903 Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
Died	September 14, 1966(1966-09-14) (aged 63) Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Resting place	Tikhvin Cemetery
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1918–1965

Nikolay Konstantinovich Cherkasov (27 July [O.S. 14 July] 1903 – 14 September 1966) was a Soviet and Russian actor. He was named People's Artist of the USSR in 1947.

Career

He was born in Saint Petersburg (later Petrograd in 1914, and Leningrad from 1924 to 1991) into the family of a railway clerk. From 1919 he was a mime artist in Petrograd's Maryinsky Theatre, the Bolshoi Theatre, and elsewhere. After graduating from the Institute of Stage Arts in 1926, he began acting in the Young Spectator's Theatre in Leningrad.

Cherkasov debuted in film with the supporting part of hairdresser Charles in Vladimir Gardin’s Pushkin biopic The Poet and the Tsar (1927). Cherkasov was one of Stalin's favorite actors and played title roles in Sergei Eisenstein's monumental sound films Alexander Nevsky (1938) and Parts I & II of Ivan the Terrible (1945 & 1946; though Part II was not officially released until 1958 for political reasons). He also played Jacques Paganel in the memorable 1936 adaptation of Jules Verne's The Children of Captain Grant. In the 1947 comedy Springtime Cherkasov appeared alongside other icons of Stalinist cinema, Lyubov Orlova and Faina Ranevskaya. For the role of Alexander Popov in the film Alexander Popov in 1951, he received a Stalin Prize of the second degree. In 1957, Cherkasov portrayed Don Quixote in director Grigori Kozintsev's screen adaptation of the novel.

In 1941, Cherkasov was awarded the Stalin Prize; in 1947, he was named a People's Artist of the USSR. He wrote his memoirs, "Notes of a Soviet Actor" in 1951. He died in Leningrad in 1966 and was buried in Tikhvin Cemetery, the "Necropolis of the Masters of Art", at the Alexander Nevsky Lavra.

The image of Cherkasov in the role of Alexander Nevsky is on the Soviet Order of Alexander Nevsky, because there are no known lifetime portraits of Nevsky.

Filmography

Notes

1. Russian: Николай Константинович Черкасов, romanized: Nikolay Konstantinovich Cherkasov

References

1. Richard Taylor, Nancy Wood, Julian Graffy, Dina Iordanova (2019). The BFI Companion to Eastern European and Russian Cinema. Bloomsbury. p. 1967. ISBN 978-1838718497.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
2. "Житие благоверного супермена". lenta.ru. 21 October 2013

External links

• Nikolay Cherkasov at IMDb

• 1903 births
• 1966 deaths
• 20th-century Russian male actors
• Male actors from Saint Petersburg
• People from Sankt-Peterburgsky Uyezd
• Russian State Institute of Performing Arts alumni
• Third convocation members of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union
• Fourth convocation members of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union
• Honored Artists of the RSFSR
• People's Artists of the RSFSR
• People's Artists of the USSR
• Recipients of the Stalin Prize
• Recipients of the Lenin Prize
• Recipients of the Order of Lenin
• Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
• Russian male film actors
• Russian male silent film actors
• Russian male stage actors
• Soviet male film actors
• Soviet male silent film actors
• Soviet male stage actors
• Burials at Tikhvin Cemetery
• Residents of the Benois House