Background
Nikolai Yanchevskiy was born on November 15, 1896 in Voronezh, Russian Federation.
journalist writer theater figure
Nikolai Yanchevskiy was born on November 15, 1896 in Voronezh, Russian Federation.
Nikolai Yanchevskiy graduated from the Voronezh Mikhailovsky Cadet Corps (1917), studied at the Alekseevsky Military School (Moscow).
Nikolai Yanchevskiy was a participant in the Civil War. He emigrated to Istanbul, where he played in the mimodrama of the director Turovsky. He lived in Marseille, Nice, Paris. He toured South America with the Tsereteli ballet troupe. In the 1930s, he worked at the International Dance Archive (Paris).
He participated in the Evreinov troupe "Wandering Comedians". He worked on the book Russian Opera Abroad. Since 1938, he collaborated with the newspaper "Renaissance". Nikolai Yanchevskiy founded the literary and art club "Arzamas". After the Great Patriotic War, he was published in the newspaper "Russian Thought".