About Valentin Smyshlyaev
Lived 1891 – 1936 (aged 45). Valentin Smyshlyaev was a Russian actor and theatre director.
Valentin Sergeevich Smyshlyaev (14 March 1891, Perm – 3 October 1936, Moscow) was a Russian actor, theatre director and theatre theorist.
Valentin studied at the law faculty of Imperial Moscow University from 1912 to 1917. He started work at the Moscow Art Theatre in 1913.
He was active in the Proletkult movement: he led the Theatre Department of the Moscow Proletkult and was the head of the artistic part of the Central Arena of the Proletkult He was also the head of the section of mass performances of the TEO of the People's Commissariat for Education.
Texts 1920 "Постановка работ театральных студий" (Staging works of theatre studios) Proletarskaya Kul'tura, No.17-19 August – December, 1920
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Soviet actor and theatre director (1891-1936)
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Valentin Smyshlyaev was born on 14 March 1891 in Nizhny Novgorod.
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Valentin Smyshlyaev died on 3 October 1936 in Moscow.
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Valentin Smyshlyaev was an actor and theatre director.
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