Background
Nikolay Yanovsky (real name Lukyanovsky) was born on June 2, 1894 in Voronezh, Russian Federation.
Nikolay Yanovsky (real name Lukyanovsky) was born on June 2, 1894 in Voronezh, Russian Federation.
Nikolay Yanovsky studied at the Kiev Cadet Corps and at the Moscow Commercial Institute (now Plekhanov Russian University of Economics).
In 1914 - 1916 Nikolay Yanovsky served in the Moscow City Council, in 1916 - 1919 - in the Moscow City Bank (at the same time he studied at the Moscow Commercial Institute).
In 1920 Nikolay Yanovsky entered the studio of E.B. Vakhtangov. Since 1921 he was an actor of the Moscow Theater named after E.B. Vakhtangov, on the stage of which he played more than 35 roles. As a director, Nikolay Yanovsky worked at the Moscow Mobile Theater, the 4th Gorky and Kirov Collective Farm Theaters, at the front theaters at the All-Russian Theater Society during the Great Patriotic War.
Nikolay Yanovsky taught at the Theatre School named after B.V. Shchukin and at the studio "Mosfilm". In 1926, he was on tour in Voronezh as part of the theater.