Alexander Yuzhin

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Alexander Ivanovich Yuzhin ({{langx|ru|Алекса́ндр Ива́нович Ю́жин}}; 1857–1927) was a stage name of the Georgian Prince Sumbatov (Sumbatashvili), who dominated the Malyi Theatre of Moscow at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. He was best known for the Romantical parts in the dramas by Schiller and Victor Hugo but also penned a number of plays himself. Yuzhin lived on to become one of the first People's Artists of the Republic in 1922.{{Cite web |url=http://www.maly.ru/news_more.php?number=1&day=14&month=1&year=2009 |title=Малый Театр, Александр Сумбатов-Южин: Великий корононоситель Малого |access-date=2018-07-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141221111846/http://www.maly.ru/news_more.php?number=1&day=14&month=1&year=2009 |archive-date=2014-12-21 |url-status=dead }}

He was a freemason. Initiated to February 17, 1908 in the masonic lodge "Renaissance" (Grand Orient of France).{{cite web|url=http://samisdat.com/5/23/523r-voz.htm |title=Виртуальный сервер Дмитрия Галковского |accessdate=2016-02-08 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304194127/http://samisdat.com/5/23/523r-voz.htm |archivedate=2016-03-04 }}Серков А. И. Русское масонство. 1731—2000 гг. Энциклопедический словарь. М.: Российская политическая энциклопедия, 2001. 1224 с.