Background
KRASOVSKIY, Ivan was born on January 17, 1870.
KRASOVSKIY, Ivan was born on January 17, 1870.
1896 graduate Moscow LIniv.
While still a student acted at clubs, including I’ushkino Summer Theater, and played in vaudeville. Joined Stanislavskiy’s Art and Literature Social. From 1898 (under pseudonym Krovskiy) with Moscow Arts Theater.
1899 transferred to Maly Theater. Roles: Shuyskiy in A. K. Tolstoy's Tsar' Fyodor Ioannovich. Tesman in Ibsen’s ’TIedda Gabler”.
The Priest in Hauptmann’s "The Sunken Bell”. Molchalin in Griboyedov’s Gore ot utna (Woe from Wit). Lynyayev and Velikatov in Volki i ovtsy (The Wolves and the Sheep) and Talanty ipoklonnihi (Talents and Admirers).
Chichikov in Myortvyye dushi (Dead Souls), after Gogol. Tbe Captain in Smolin’s Ivan Kozyr’ i Tat'yana Russkikh (Ivan Kozyr’ and Tat’yana of the Russians). Georgiy Bogorodskiy in Trenyov’s Zhena (The Wife), et cetera