Background
ROMANOV, Mikhail was born on October 16, 1896 in St. Petersburg.
ROMANOV, Mikhail was born on October 16, 1896 in St. Petersburg.
1920 completed drama training.
1919 volunteer in Red Army, where he directed amateur dramatic productions. 1920 actor, Petrograd Military district Theater. 1921 founded People’s Theater in village Rozdestvenno, Petrograd Province.
1923-1924 at Petrograd’s New Drama Theater. 1924-1936 at Pushkin Drama Theater, Leningrad. From 1936 actor, 1953-1959 artistic director, Lesya Ukrainka Drama Theater, Kiev.
Also gave lit readings and did film work. Roles: Neznamov in Ostrovskiy’s Bez viny vinovatyye (Guilty Without Guilt). Nikolay in Ostrovskiy’s Pozdnyaya lyubov' (Late Love).
Pavel Protasov in Gorky’s Deti solntsa (Children in the Sun). Lavretskiy in Dvo- rasnkoye gnezdo (A Nest of Gentle folk), after Turgenev. The Knight-Commander in Lesya Ukrainka’s Kamennyy vlastelin (The Stone Sovereign).
Telegin in Khozhdeniyepo mukarn (Purgatory), after A.N. Tolstoy. Harry Smith in Simonov’s Russkiy vopros (The Russian Problem). Fyodor Protasov in Lev Tolstoy’s Zhivoy trup (The Living Corpse).
Molchalin in Griboyedov’s Gore ot uma (Woe from Wit). Men’shikov in A. Tolstoy’s Pyotr pervyy (Peter I), etc. Productions: Sardoux’s “Revolutionary Wedding” (1921).
Ostrovskiy’s “Late Love” (1921). Yanovskiy’s Dock’ prokurora (The Prosecutor’s Daughter) (1954). Arbuzov’s Gody stranstviy (Years of Wandering) (1955).
Sofronov’s Den’gi (Money) (1956). Romashov’s Ognennyy most (Bridge of Fire) (1957). Rozov’s V poiskakh radosti (In Quest of Joy) (1958).
“Mashen’ka” (1959); Chekhov’s Dyadya Vanya (Uncle Vanya) (1960). Les (The Forest) (1962), etc.
Member, Communist Party, since 1950.
Member, Communist Party, since 1950.