Background
Platon Kazantsev was born on October 17,1840 in Kazan, Russian Federation.
Platon Kazantsev was born on October 17,1840 in Kazan, Russian Federation.
Since 1878, began his entrepreneurial activities in provincial cities (Stavropol, Novocherkassk and others).In the summer of 1879, the troupe was in Voronezh, who played in the Theater of the City Garden. It included actors: V.P. Dalmatov, M.I. Svobodina-Barysheva, N.N. Sinelnikov. They were invited by Kazantsev on a tour of M.N. Ermolova and O.A. Pravdin.
In the early 1880's, the owner of the city's Winter Theater in Voronezh. In 1891-1893 he played in the enterprise of I.P. Novikov in Samara and Orenburg.