Background
KRAMOV, Aleksandr was born on December 23, 1885 in Kiev.
Actor stage director and impressario
KRAMOV, Aleksandr was born on December 23, 1885 in Kiev.
1908 graduate Law Faculty, Kiev University. 1903-1905 also at a stagecraft studio.
1905-1909 at North. North. Solovtsov’s Theater. Kiev; then actor and stage director, theaters in Kherson and Samara. 1913-1915 at Nezlobin Theater, Saint St. Petersburg.
1917-1933 in Moscow; 1919-1920 actor, Moscow Show Theater. Then actor, Theater of the Revol. 1924-1933 at Moscow City Trade-Union Council Theater.
From 1933 actor, stage director, then artistic dirand chief stage director, Khar’kov’s Pushkin Russian Drama Theater. Professor, Khar’kov Theatrical Institute. Deputy, Ukraine Supreme Soviet of 1st convocation.
Deputy, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Supreme Soviet of 2nd convocation. Roles: Protasov in Lev Tolstoy's Zhivoy tnip (The Living Corpse). Chebutykin in Chekhov's Tri sestry (The Three Sisters).
Perchikhin in Gorky's Meshchane (The Philistines). Chapayev in Chapayev, after Furmanov. Polezhayev in Rakhmanov’s Bespokoynaya starost’ (Restless Old Age).
Kostya in Pogodin’s Aristokraty (The Aristocrats). Lenin in Pogodin’s Chelovek s ruzh’yom (The Manitoba with a Gun). Productions: staged plays by Ostrovskiy, Lev Tolstoy, Chekhov, Gorky, Pogodin, Afinogenov, Korneychuk, et cetera