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Yevgeny Vakhtangov

1883 - 1922

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Yevgeny Bagrationovich Vakhtangov (also spelled Evgeny or Eugene; Russian: Евге́ний Багратио́нович Вахта́нгов; 13 February 1883 – 29 May 1922) was a Russian actor and theatre director who founded the Vakhtangov Theatre. He was a friend and mentor of Michael Chekhov. He is known for his distinctive style of theatre, his most notable production being Princess Turandot in 1922. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Yevgeny Vakhtangov is the 2,928th most popular actor (down from 2,594th in 2019), the 1,221st most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,174th in 2019) and the 43rd most popular Russian Actor.

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Yevgeny Vakhtangov ranks 2,928 out of 13,578Before him are Timothée Chalamet, Behrouz Vossoughi, Dan O'Herlihy, Francesca Neri, George Harris, and Hind Rostom. After him are Peter Jason, Teinosuke Kinugasa, Ajith Kumar, Michael Berryman, Hank Azaria, and Jared Padalecki.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1883, Yevgeny Vakhtangov ranks 152Before him are Ramón Fonst, Eleazar López Contreras, Naoya Shiga, Ota Benga, D. S. Senanayake, and Vladimir Kappel. After him are Imogen Cunningham, Paul Bader, Huang Fu, Adolf II, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe, Maximilian Steinberg, and Fritz Platten. Among people deceased in 1922, Yevgeny Vakhtangov ranks 84Before him are Bahaeddin Şakir, Hüseyin Hilmi Pasha, Géza Gárdonyi, William J. Seymour, Lord Leopold Mountbatten, and Alexander Antonov. After him are Petros Protopapadakis, Pavle Jurišić Šturm, Berthold Delbrück, Patrick Manson, Iwan Bloch, and William Stewart Halsted.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Yevgeny Vakhtangov ranks 1,221 out of 3,761Before him are Igor Chislenko (1939), Maria Klenova (1898), Vissarion Shebalin (1902), Alexander Antonov (1889), Peter Struve (1870), and Valentin Varennikov (1923). After him are Sergey Litvinov (1958), Lyudmila Zykina (1929), Pyotr Nesterov (1887), Sergey Surovikin (1966), Stanisław Leśniewski (1886), and Sadri Maksudi Arsal (1878).

Among ACTORS In Russia

Among actors born in Russia, Yevgeny Vakhtangov ranks 43Before him are Yury Solomin (1935), Georgy Vitsin (1917), Olga Baclanova (1893), Vera Alentova (1942), Maria Ouspenskaya (1876), and Margarita Terekhova (1942). After him are Irina Skobtseva (1927), Ivan Mosjoukine (1889), Vladimir Etush (1922), Aleksandr Demyanenko (1937), Vladimir Basov (1923), and Nikolay Cherkasov (1903).