Mikhail Nazvanov

Mikhail Mikhailovich Nazvanov (; 12 April 1918 – 13 July 1964) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor. He was awarded Honored Artist of the RSFSR in 1949.

Biography Mikhail Nazvanov was born in Moscow in the wealthy family of a large technologist-technologist Mikhail K. Nazhanov; his mother, Olga Nikolayevna Butomo-Nazhanova, was a famous chamber singer. In 1931 he graduated from Academic Music College. In 1957 he was again invited to join the Art Theater, which, however, left in 1960 and became actor in the Mosfilm-studio. As a stage actor he played Trigorin in The Seagull, Krechinsky in Krechinsky's Wedding, Ripafratta in The Mistress of the Inn, Robert Chiltern in An Ideal Husband, and Stiva Oblonsky in Anna Karenina.

Mikhail Nazvanov made his film debut in 1943 in the popular film Wait for Me and immediately gained fame. Sergei Eisenstein invited him to the role of Andrey Kurbsky in Ivan the Terrible. He collaborated also with such famous directors as Grigori Aleksandrov (Encounter at the Elbe, The Composer Glinka), Vsevolod Pudovkin (Zhukovsky), Mikhail Romm (The Russian Question, Attack from the Sea), Grigori Kozintsev (Belinsky, Hamlet). Nazvanov has also directed film The Mistress of the Inn.

Selected filmography

Wait for Me (1943) as Andrei Panov Ivan the Terrible (1945/58) as prince Andrey Kurbsky The Great Glinka (1946) as hussar Kostya The Russian Question (1947) as Jack Gould – Stalin Prize first degree (1948) Encounter at the Elbe (1949) as James Hill – Stalin Prize first degree (1950) The Battle of Stalingrad (1949) as Colonel Ivan Lyudnikov Taras Shevchenko (1951) as Nicholas I of Russia, Alexander II of Russia Belinsky (1951) as Nicholas I of Russia Zhukovsky (1951) as Ryabushinsky The Composer Glinka (1952) as Nicholas I of Russia Attack from the Sea (1952) as Alexander I of Russia The Safety Match (1954) as Mark Ivanovich Klyauzov The Mistress of the Inn (1956) as Ripafratta (also director) Gutta-percha Boy (1957) as Karl Bogdanovich Bekker Duel (1960) as Vladimir Nikolayev The Fight on a Way (1961) as Semyon Valgan My Younger Brother (1962) as Andrei Ivanovich, professor Hamlet (1964) as Claudius

Honors and awards

Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1949) Two Stalin Prizes first degree (1948, 1950) Stalin Prize second degree (1949) Order of the Badge of Honour (1950)