Education
Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute.
Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute.
Refused the title of People"s Artist of Russia, which was suggested to him to the 70-year anniversary. Smekhov has long worked in the Moscow Taganka Theatre where his roles included Woland in a stage adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov"s The Master and Margarita. In film, he is most known and loved for the role of Athos in a Russian version of The Three Musketeers (1978) and its sequels (1992, 1993).
He also has written children poetry, scripts, memoirs and humour.