Pyotr Chardynin

Pyotr Ivanovich Chardynin ( – 14 August 1934) was a Russian and Soviet film director, screenwriter and actor. One of the pioneers of the film industry in the Russian Empire, Chardynin directed over a hundred silent films during his career.

Biography Chardynin was born Pyotr Ivanovich Krasavtsev on 10 February 1873 in Simbirsk, Russia (now Ulyanovsk). In 1890, he was admitted to the Drama School of Moscow Philharmonic Society, where he studied under Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko from 1891. After graduating, he adopted stage name of Chardynin and started both acting and directing career in provincial Russian theatres in Belgorod, Orekhovo-Zuevo, Uralsk and Vologda. Boyarin Orsha (short), 1910 Idiot (short), 1910 The Queen of Spades (short), 1910 Vadim (short), 1910 Na boykom meste, 1911 The Kreutzer Sonata, 1911 Rabochaya slobodka (short), 1912 Voyna i mir (short), 1913 Uncle's Apartment (co-director), 1913 1613 (co-director), 1913 Obryv, 1913 The Little House in Kolomna (short), 1913 V rukakh besposhchadnogo roka (short), 1914 Ty pomnish''' li?, 1914 Revnost (short), 1914 Zhenshchina zavtrashevo dnya, 1914 Sorvanets, 1914 Chrysanthemums, 1914 Vlast tmy (short), 1915 Ubogaya i naryadnaya, 1915 Komediya smerti (short), 1915 Katyusha Maslova, 1915 Hromonozhka, 1915 Peterburgskiye trushchobi (co-director), 1915 Natasha Rostova, 1915 Potop, 1915 Teni grekha, 1915 Venetziansky chulok, 1915 Lyubov statskogo sovetnika, 1915 Drakonovskiy kontrakt, 1915 Mirages (short), 1915 By the Fireplace, 1917, 1917 Be Silent, My Sorrow, Be Silent, 1918 Rasskaz o semi poveshennykh, 1920 Dubrowsky, der Räuber Ataman (as Peter Tschardin), 1921 , 1925, based on the "cine-novel" with the same name by Nikolay Borisov 1925: Генерал с того света, a time slip lost short film, screenplay by Nikolay Borisov and Vladimir Vajnshtok

Taras Shevchenko, 1926