Background
VIV'YEN, Leonid was born on April 29, 1887.
VIV'YEN, Leonid was born on April 29, 1887.
1910 graduate Saint St. Petersburg Polytech Institute. 1913 graduate Saint St. Petersburg Theatrical College.
1911-1924 actor, 1924-1938 stage director, 1938-1949 artistic director, former Alexandrine Theater (now Leningrad State Academy Drama Theater). 1917-1918 member, Provisional Committee to Manage the Moscow Academy Arts Theater. 1922 taught at Leningrad Theaterical Institute and ran Theater of Acting.
1929 director, Red Army Theater, Leningrad. Member, Theater Art Council, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Ministry of Culture. Roles: Yakov Bardin in Gorky's Vragi (The Enemy).
Repetilov in Griboyedov’s Gore ot uma (Woe from Wit). Zhadov and Karandyshev in Ostrovskiy’s Dokhodnoye mesto (A Lucrative Post) and Bespridannitsa (Girl Without a Dowry). The Baron and Pyotr in Gorky's Na dne (The Lower Depths) and Meshchane (The Philistines).
Professor Higgins in Shaw’s “Pygmalion”. Productions: Gorky's Deti solntsa (Children of the Sun) and “Meshchane”. Leonov’s Nashestviye (Invasion).
Ostrovskiy’s “Dokhodnoye mesto”. Gogol's Revizor (The Government Inspector). Shteyn’s Personal'noye delo (A Personal Affair).
Chekhov's Chayka (The Seagull). Alyoshin’s Vsyo ostayotsya lyudyam (lieutenant’s All Up to People), et cetera
Communist Party member from 1945.