Background
ARKADIN, Ivan was born in 1878.
ARKADIN, Ivan was born in 1878.
1908 began acting with Gaydeburov Touring Drama Theater, where his first role was Pavlin in Volki i ovtsy (The Wolves and the Sheep). 1914-1938 at Moscow Chamber Theater. From 1938 at State Centr Theater of Young Playgoers.
Specialized in comic and slapstick roles, played in a sincere and simple style bordering at times on the tragic. Roles: the Prime-Minister in Lecoq’s "Day and Night”. Rosctti in the adaptation of Sobol’s "Sirocco”.
Theramenes in Racine’s "Phaedra”. Herod in Wilde's "Salome”. Silenus in Annenskiy’s ’’Famira-Kifared”.
The Prince of Boulogne in Scribe and Legouve’s "Adrienne Lecouvrere”. Famusov in Gore ot uma (Woe from Wit). The clerk in Sizovoy’s Mikhaylo Lomonosov: Professor Shatrov in Delegate’s Ulukomor’ya (At the Seashore), et cetera