Background
Mikhail is the son of People"s Artist of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Oleg Yefremov and Sovremennik Theatre actress Alla Pokrovskaya (Boris Pokrovsky"s daughter).
Mikhail is the son of People"s Artist of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Oleg Yefremov and Sovremennik Theatre actress Alla Pokrovskaya (Boris Pokrovsky"s daughter).
In 1987 he graduated from the Moscow Art Theatre School.
He made his stage and screen debut in mid 1970"s as schoolboy. In 1982-1984 Yefremov served in Soviet Army. Yefremov was married four times, has six children.
From 2009 on Yefremov presents Channel One show Wait for Maine, dedicated to search of long lost relatives and friends.
In 2010"s he collaborated Dmitry Bykov over their project "Citizen Poet" (a pun on Nikolai Nekrasov"s poem "Poet and Citizen"). Yefremov reads poems, written by Bykov, which are usually satirical comments on the contemporary Russian society, politics and culture.
Each poem parodies the style of a famous poet of the past, e.g. Pushkin, Nekrasov, Kipling, among others
lieutenant was originally broadcast on Dozhd television channel, but the original project was closed, because the poems were too critical towards Russian government.
Currently, the show is hosted in audio format by Echo of Moscow radio station.