Background
TARKHANOV, Mikhail was born on September 7, 1877 in Moscow.
Actor stage director and drama teacher
TARKHANOV, Mikhail was born on September 7, 1877 in Moscow.
1898 theater debut with 1. Shuvalov’s company in Ryazan’as prompter, assistant stage director, then actor. Then acted at provincial theaters.
1914-1919 at Sinel’nikov Theater, Kiev. And Khar’kov; from 1922 actor, Moscow Arts Theater. 1925-1927 artistic director, 4th Studio, Moscow Arts Theater.
1942-1948 artistic director State Institute of Stagecraft. Roles: Zcmlyanika and Osip in Gogol's Revizor (The Government Inspector).
Orgon in Moliere’s “Tartuffe”. Polonius in “Shakespeare's “Hamlet”. Robinzon in Ostrovskiy’s Bespridannitsa (Girl Without a Dowry).
Bogdan Kuryukov in A.K. Tolstoy's “Tsar’ Fyodor Ioannovich” (1923). Gradoboyev in Ostrovskiy’s Goryacheye serdtse (A Warm Heart) (1926). Firs in Chekhov's Vishnyovyy sad (The Cherry Orchard) (1928).
Semyon Semyonych in Ivanov’s Bronepoyezd 14-69 (Armored Train 14—69) (1929). Sobakevich in Myortvyye dushi (Dead Souls), after Gogol. (1932); Dikiy in Ostrovskiy’s Groza (The Storm) (1934).
Fumachev in Saltykov-Shchcdrin’s Smert Pazukhina (The Death of Pazukhin) (1939). Bogomazov in Bulgakov’s Posledniye dni (The Last Days) (1943), et cetera Film roles: Modest Alekseyevich in Chiny i lyudi (Titles and People).
Derunov in “Iudushka Golovlev”. Spitsyn in “Dubrovskiy”. Shcremetev in Pyotr I (Peter I).
Polivanov in Yunost’Maksima (Maksim’s Youth), et cetera Productions: “Goryacheye serdtse” (1926). Ostrovskiy’s Nc bylo ni grosha, da vdrug altyn (From Rags to Riches).
Moliere’s “Tartuffe”. Nizovoy’s Na zemle (On Earth). Tsement (Cement), after Gladkov, et cetera
Communist Party member from 1947 .