Mikhail Yanshin
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| name = Mikhail Yanshin
| image = YanshinMM.JPG
| image_size = 160
| caption = Mikhail Yanshin in the short film The Acceptance of Catastrophes (from Combat Film Collection No 7), 1941
| birth_name = Mikhail Mikhailovich Yanshin
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1902|10|20|df=y}}
| birth_place = Yukhnov, Smolensk Governorate, Russian Empire
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1976|7|17|1902|10|20|df=y}}
| death_place = Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
| occupation = Actor
| years_active = 1924–1976
}}
Mikhail Mikhailovich Yanshin ({{langx|ru|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.М. М. Яншин. Статьи, воспоминания, письма, М., 1984 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.Е. Полякова. 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.Е. Полякова. Яншин. К 70-летию со дня рождения, «Театр», 1972, No 11 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.[http://www.kinozapiski.ru/ru/article/sendvalues/874/ Мастера дураковаляния. Фрагменты ненаписанной книги] [http://www.kinozapiski.ru/ru/no/sendvalues/43/ Киноведческие записки № 80, 2006]
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.М. М. Яншин. 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 Lyalya Chyornaya), 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.{{cite web|url=http://proekt-wms.narod.ru/zvezd/yanshin-m.htm |title=Михаил Яншин|publisher=Proekt-wms.narod.ru |date= |accessdate=2013-09-07}}
He died in 1976 in Moscow and was buried at Novodevichy Cemetery.
Theatrical roles
Image:Mikhail Yanshin Postal card Russia 2002.jpg issued to commemorate the 100th birth anniversary of Mikhail Yanshin. The Russian Post, 2002.]]
- Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov – Ivan Chebutykin
- Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov – Ilya Ilyich Telegin
- The Seagull by Anton Chekhov – Pyotr Sorin
- The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan – Sir Peter
- Late Love by Alexander Ostrovsky – Margaritov
- Fortune's Fool by Ivan Turgenev – Vasily Kouzovkin
- Solo for Hours of Battle by Osvald Zahradník – Abel
- Even a Wise Man Stumbles by Alexander Ostrovsky – Nil Fedoseevich Mamaev
- Days of the Turbins by Mikhail Bulgakov – Lariosik
Selected filmography
| class="wikitable" |
| Year
!Title !Role |
|---|
| 1930
|Uncredited role |
| 1933
|Soldier |
| 1934 |
| 1945
|Various |
| 1946 |
| 1946
|Severyan |
| 1951
|Choub |
| 1952
|Colonel Butkevich |
| 1955
|Sir Toby Belch |
| 1960
|It Was I Who Drew the Little Man |The Little Man |
| 1960
|Ivan Andreevich, postmaster |
| 1964
|Father Mushroom |
| 1964
|A Little Frog Is looking for His Father |Hippopotamus |
| 1972
|Professor Volosyuk |
Awards and honors
- Meritorious Artist of the RFSFR (1933){{cite web|url=http://www.kinosozvezdie.ru/actors/yanshin/yanshin.html |title=Яншин Михаил Михайлович - Киносозвездие - авторский проект Сергея Николаева |publisher=Kinosozvezdie.ru |date= |accessdate=2013-09-07}}
- Order of the Badge of Honour (1937)
- People's Artist of the RFSFR (1947)
- People's Artist of the USSR (1955)
- Order of Lenin (1948 and 1972)
- Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1971)
- USSR State Prize (1975)
- State Prize of the RFSFR named for Konstantin Stanislavski (1970)
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|0946263}}
- {{FAG|65493891}}
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Category:People from Yukhnovsky District
Category:People from Smolensk Governorate
Category:Soviet male film actors
Category:Soviet male stage actors
Category:Soviet male voice actors
Category:People of the Russian Civil War
Category:Recipients of the Order of Lenin
Category:Recipients of the USSR State Prize
Category:Burials at Novodevichy Cemetery
Category:People's Artists of the USSR