Background
Ivan was born on May 29, 1889, Voronezh, Russian Federation.
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Ivan was born on May 29, 1889, Voronezh, Russian Federation.
He graduated from the Voronezh Real School (1907), after which he studied at the St. Petersburg Institute of Civil Engineers.
In 1908 he entered the troupe of the All-Russia Union of Stage Performers at the Voronezh People's House; debuted on stage in the role of Prince Kurbsky ("Boris Godunov" Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin). In 1908-1915 he worked at the theaters of Voronezh, Saratov, Nakhichevan, Rostov on the Don. Actor of the troupe Voronezh Provincial Department of Public Education (1917), the Small Soviet Theater (1918), on the stage of which he played the roles of Afremov (“The Living Corpse” of Lev Tolstoy), Tikhon (“The Storm” by Alexander Nikolaevich Ostrovsky) and others. Then he served in the theaters of other cities. In 1934-1937 he was an artist of the Dagestan State Theater named after M. Gorky. Since 1938 - in the Kazakh Russian Drama Theater. Since 1950 - the artist of the Voronezh Drama Theater. Among the main roles: Korobkin (“The Inspector General” of Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol), Doge of Venice (“Othello” by William Shakespeare), Federico ("The Dog in the Manger" by Lope de Vega), Makarov ("Factory Girl" by Alexander Moiseevich Volodin), Bruce (" From Poltava to Gangut "by Ilya L'vovich Selvinsky), Mark Bogdanovich (" One Night "by Boris Leontievich Gorbatov), Rutland (" Theft "of Jack London) and others. As the director he has carried out a number of productions on the stages of various theaters.
