Background
Boris Mitrofanovich Shukhmin was born on October 9, 1899 in Voronezh, Russian Federation.
Boris Shukhmin
Boris Shukhmin
Boris Mitrofanovich Shukhmin was born on October 9, 1899 in Voronezh, Russian Federation.
After graduating from high school in 1918, Boris Mitrofanovich volunteered for the Red Army. He studied at the Moscow State Stroganov Academy of Industrial and Applied Arts .
In 1921-1962, an artist of the Vahtangov Theatre in Moscow, on the stage of which he played such roles as Tartaglia, Brigella, Pantalone ("Turandot" by Carlo Gozzi), Mokrousov ("Yegor Bulychov and Others" by Maxim Gorky), Lemon, Dymov ("Aristocrats", "A Man with shotgun" by Nikolai Pogodin), Cranberry ("Much Ado About Nothing" by William Shakespeare), Denis Davydov ("Field Marshal Kutuzov" Vladimir Solovyov) and others.
As a director, Boris Mitrofanovich participated in the production of the play "Don Quixote" by Miguel Cervantes. Since 1941, the head of the noise part of the theater.
Since 1926 he taught at The Boris Shchukin Theater School. He acted in films, including in the films Guilty Without Guilt and Dangerous Trails. He was known as a cartoonist. In 1926, he was on tour in Voronezh as part of the theater.
Brother of Peter Mitrofanovich Shukhmin and Tatyana Mitrofanovna Shukhmina.