Background
He was born on the 8th of November, 1889 in the village Stariy Saltov, Ukraine.
He was born on the 8th of November, 1889 in the village Stariy Saltov, Ukraine.
He started his creative activity in 1910. In the years of 1912-1915 he was an actor in the Ukrainian troupe of the entrepreneur Chernov in Kerch. Then he worked in theaters in Tashkent, Frunze, Chkalov.
Actor of drama theaters in Kursk (1927-1928), Ostrogozhsk (1928-1929), Kazan (1929-1930). In 1930-1961, the actor of the Voronezh drama theater, on the stage of which he played about 200 roles.
The roles he played: Egor Bulychov (Zimbovsky - the first performer of this role in the province), Tatarin, Chepurnoy ("Yegor Bulychov and others", "On the bottom", "Children of the sun" by Maxim Gorky), Polonius, Iago, Capulet ("hamlet", "Othello", "Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare), Chebutykin, Simeonov-Pischik ("Three sisters", "The Cherry orchard" by Anton Chekhov), Wurm and Miller ("Intrigue and love" by Friedrich Schiller), Lyapkin-Tyapkin and Osip ("Auditor" by Nikolai Gogol), Volzhanin, Lemon, Sukhozhilov ("Man with a gun", "the Aristocrats", and "Third pathetic" by Nikolai Pogodin), Knyaz Shuisky ("the Death of Ivan the terrible" by Alexei Konstantinovich Tolstoy), Gornostayev ("Lyubov Yarovaya" by Konstantin Trenev), Globa, Golub ("Russian people", "History of one love" by Konstantin Simonov), Vasily Koltsov ("Alexey Koltsov" by Vladimir Korablinov), Lobov ("Big day" by Vladimir Kirshon) and others.