Mikhail Yanshin

Mikhail Yanshin

Mikhail Yanshin in the short film The Acceptance of Catastrophes (from Combat Film Collection No 7). 1941.
Born Mikhail Mikhailovich Yanshin
(1902-10-20)20 October 1902
Yukhnov, Smolensk Governorate, Russian Empire
Died 17 July 1976(1976-07-17) (aged 73)
Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Occupation Actor
Years active 1924 - 1976

Mikhail Mikhailovich Yanshin (Russian: Михаи́л Миха́йлович Я́ншин) (20 October 1902 - 17 July 1976) was a Soviet stage and film actor.

Biography

Yanshin was born in the city of Yukhnov, located in the present-day Kaluga Oblast.[1] As a young man he worked as a carpenter. In 1919 he volunteered for the Red Army. Following the Russian Civil War, he enrolled at the school of the Moscow Art Theatre, where his classmates included Mikhail Kedrov and Boris Livanov.[2] He joined the theatre's company in 1924 and remained a member of the institution until his death.

Yanshin's first notable roles at the Art Theatre were as Dobchinsky in Gogol's The Government Inspector and as the footman Petrushka in Griboyedov's Woe from Wit. He came to greater attention in the role of Lariosik in Bulgakov's Days of the Turbins, and thereafter began to receive work in other theaters.[3] From 1934 to 1939 he was artistic director of the Moscow Theatre of the Forest Industry; from 1937 to 1941 he directed the Romen Theatre; and from 1950 to 1963 he was chief director of the Stanislavski and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Academic Music Theatre. In 1963 Yanshin was criticized by the Soviet ministry of culture, which disapproved of his staging contemporary, non-traditional plays; he resigned and returned to the Moscow Art Theatre, where he was instrumental in the hiring of the director Oleg Yefremov.

In addition to his theatrical work, Yanshin appeared in many films. He was a frequent voice actor for Soyuzmultfilm cartoons, and often collaborated with the animators Zinaida and Valentina Brumberg. In addition to working as a voice actor, he also wrote the script of the Brumbergs' 1951 film The Night Before Christmas.

Yanshin was married three times.[4] His first wife was Veronika Polonskaya, a fellow artist at the Moscow Art Theatre, whom he married in 1926. She is notable for having pursued an extra-marital affair with the poet Vladimir Mayakovsky, and both she and Yanshin were present when Mayakovsky committed suicide in 1930. They divorced in 1934, and that same year Yanshin married Nadezhda Kiselyova (stage name "Lala Chernoy"), a dancer at the Rumen Theatre. They divorced in 1942, and Kiselyova later married Yanshin's old classmate Nikolai Khmelyov. From 1955 until his death Yanshin was married to Nonna Meyer, a performer at the Stanislavski Theatre.[5]

He died in 1976 in Moscow and was buried at Novodevichy Cemetery.

Theatrical roles

The postal card issued to commemorate the 100th birth anniversary of Mikhail Yanshin. The Russian Post, 2002.

Selected filmography

Year Title Role
1930 St. Jorgen's Day Uncredited role
1933 Okraina Soldier
1934 Lieutenant Kijé Tsar Paul I
1945 The Lost Letter Various
1946 The Great Glinka Pyotr Vyazemsky
1946 The Stone Flower Severyan
1951 The Night Before Christmas Choub
1952 The Unforgettable Year 1919 Colonel Butkevich
1955 Twelfth Night Sir Toby Belch
1960 It Was I Who Drew the Little Man The Little Man
1964 Jack Frost Father Mushroom
1964 A Little Frog Is looking for His Father Hippopotamus
1972 Big School-Break Professor Volosyuk

Awards and honors

References

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  1. ↑ М. М. Яншин. Статьи, воспоминания, письма, М., 1984
  2. ↑ Е. Полякова.
  3. ↑ Е. Полякова. Яншин. К 70-летию со дня рождения, «Театр», 1972, No 11
  4. ↑ М. М. Яншин.
  5. ↑ "Михаил Яншин". Proekt-wms.narod.ru. Retrieved 2013-09-07.
  6. ↑ "Яншин Михаил Михайлович - Киносозвездие - авторский проект Сергея Николаева". Kinosozvezdie.ru. Retrieved 2013-09-07.

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