Background
PETROV, Nikolay was born on June 22, 1890.
PETROV, Nikolay was born on June 22, 1890.
1908-1910 studied under Nemirovich-Danchenko in Production Class, Moscow Arts Theater.
1910-1933 assistant stage director, stage, director, then director and artistic director, Alexandrine Theater (now Pushkin Drama Theater) Leningrad. From 1933 stage director, Khar’kov Russian Drama Theater, from 1937 stage director, Moscow Theater of the Revol. From 1939 chief stage director, Centr Transport Theater.
From 1948 stage director, Moscow Satire Theater. From 1956 stage director, Pushkin Drama Theater, Moscow. Also directed Acting Faculty and Producing Faculty, State Institute of Stagecraft, Productions: Lunacharskiy’s Faust igorod (Faust and the City) (1921).
Oscar Wilde’s “An Ideal Husband” (1923). Company-producer, Lunacharskiy's Yad (Poison) (1925). Gogol's Revizor (The Government Inspector) (1927).
Afinogenov’s Chudak (The Crank) (1930). Chekhov's Vishnyovyy sad (Cherry Orchard) (1934). Korneychuk’s Pravda (The Truth) 11937).
Mdivani and Kirov's Molodoy chelovek (The Young Manitoba) 1946). Company-producer, Romashov’s Velikaya sila (The Great Force) 1947). Igrok (The Gambler), after Dostoyevskiy (1956).
Banya (The Bath-House) (1958), et cetera