Background
KUZNETSOV, Stepan was born on January 14, 1879 in Kishinev.
KUZNETSOV, Stepan was born on January 14, 1879 in Kishinev.
Completed parish school.
Salesclerk in book stores. 1897 amateur acting debut. 1901 became professional actor with Tomskiy Company in Orel.
1902-1906 served in Russian Army and engaged in rcvol work among the troops. 1907-1908 at Solovtsov Theater, Kiev. 1908 joined Moscow Arts Theater.
From 1910 at theaters in Kiev, Odessa, Khar’kov, et cetera 1923-1925 actor, Moscow City Trade-Union Council Theater. From 1925 at Malyy Theater.
Roles: Gaycv, Ycpikhodov and Firs in Chekhov's Vishnyovyy sad (The Cherry Orchard). Vaflya and Astrov in Chekhov's Dyadya Vanya (Uncle Vanya). Luka, Baron and Alyoshka in Gorky's Na dne (The Lower Depths).
Almost all the roles in Gogol's Revizor (The Government Inspector). Blokhin in Andreyev’s Dni nashey zhizni (The Days of Our Life). Frcdrikson’ in Hamsun’s ”In the Clutches of Life”.
The Tsar in A. K. Tolstoy's Tsar’ Fyodor Ioannovich', Ferdyshchenko in Idiot (The Idiot), after Dostoyevsky. Doolittle in Shaw’s "Pygmalion”. Lemm in Dvoryanskoye gnezdo (A Nest of Gentlefolk), after Turgenev.
Razlyulyayev in Bednost' ne porok (Poverty Is Number Vice). Sganarelle in Molitre’s ’’Don Juan”. Vikent’yev in Obryv (The Precipice), after Goncharov.
Krutitskiy in Ostrovskiy’s Ne bylo ni grosha. da vdrug altyn (From Rags to Riches). Dubrovin and Buketov in Romashov’s Ognennyy most (Bridge of Fire) and Smena geroyev (New Generation of Heroes), et cetera