Background
SOBOL’SHCHIKOV-SAMARIN, Nikolay was born on April 9, 1868 in Saint St. Petersburg. Son of a peasant.
stage director and drama teacher Russian actor
SOBOL’SHCHIKOV-SAMARIN, Nikolay was born on April 9, 1868 in Saint St. Petersburg. Son of a peasant.
Until 1883 studied at military topographical school. Performed at clubs in Saint St. Petersburg and Saint St. Petersburg suburbs. Became provincial actor.
1892 actor and stage director, Vasiliy Ostrov Workers’ Theater, Saint St. Petersburg. 1892-1899 actor and stage director, Nizhniy Novgorod Theater. 1924-1944 director, Nizhniy Novgorod (now Gorky) Drama Theater.
Productions: Gorky's Meshchane (The Philistines) (1903, 1926 and 1934). Gogol's Revizor (The Government Inspector) (1930). Shakespeare's “Hamlet” (1936).
Ostrovskiy’s Son na Volge (Dream of the Volga) (1941). Roles: Neschastlivtsev and Ivan the Terrible in Ostrovskiy’s Les (The Forest) and “Vasilisa Melent’yeva”. Teterev in Gorky's “Meshchane”.
Lear in Shakespeare's “King Lear”, et cetera