Background
ZUBOV, Konstantin was born on September 20, 1888 in village Bazarynyy Sizgan, now Kuybyshev Oblast. Son of a teacher.
Actor stage director and drama teacher
ZUBOV, Konstantin was born on September 20, 1888 in village Bazarynyy Sizgan, now Kuybyshev Oblast. Son of a teacher.
Studied at Nancy Technical College and History and Philology Faculty, Paris University. From 1906 studied at History and Philology Faculty, Saint St. Petersburg University. Also studied under V.N. Davydov at Saint St. Petersburg Theatrical College.
1908-1910 studied at Sanin and Petrovskiy’s School of Stagecraft.
1908 professional stage debut with Davydov’s Summer Touring Company. 1910-1912 and 1914-1915 with North.N. Sinel’nikov’s Company in Khar’kov and Kiev. 1913-1914 in Samara; 1915-1917 at Moscow Korsh Theater.
1917-1918 head, Actors’ Association, Irkutsk Drama Theater. Began work as stage director at Irkutsk Drama Theater. 1921-1924 at 1st Far Eastern Military Revol Theater.
1925-1931 actor, stage director and head, Moscow’s Theater of the Revol. 1932-1938 artistic director, Leningrad Soviet Theater in Moscow. 1936-1946 actor and stage director, from 1947 chief stage director, Maly Theater.
From 1920 taught stagecraft. From 1946 professor, Shchepkin Theatrical College. Deputy, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic Supreme Soviet of 4th convocation.
Roles: Alyosha in Naydyonov’s Deti Vanyushina (Vanyushin’s Children). Hamlet; Korzinkin in Romashov’s Konets Krivoryl’ska (The End of Krivoryl’sk). Semyon Rak in Romashov’s Vozdusnyy pirog (The Meringue).
Minister Kal’man in Toller’s Gop-lya, my zhivyom (Hop-Louisiana, We Live On). Platon in “Platon Krechet”. Higgins in Shaw’s “Pygmalion".
StesseT in Stepanov and Popov’s “Portuguese Arthur”. Famusov and Repetilov in Griboyedov’s Gore at uma (Woe from Wit). Rastyogin in Trenyov’s Na beregu Nevy (On the Banks of the Neva).
Telyatev in Ostrovskiy’s Beshenyye den’gi (Mad Money). Gorodulin in Ostrovskiy’s Na vsyakogo mudretsa dovol’no prostoty (There’s a Simpleton in Every Sage), et cetera Productions: Chekhov's Vishnyovyy sad (The Cherry Orchard).
Gorky's Aleshchane (The Philistines). Gorky's Na dne (The Lower Depths). Razgrom (Rout), after Fadeyev.
“Platon Krechet”; “Eugene Grandet,” after Balzac (1939). Varvary (The Barbarians) (1941). Helped produce: Shaw’s “Pygmalion” (1943).
Lavrenyov’s “Foreign Those at Sea” (1946). Romashov’s Velikaya sila (The Great Force) (1947). “Vassa Zheleznova” (1952).
“Portuguese Arthur” (1953), et cetera
Communist Party member from 1942.