Nikolay Bogolyubov (actor)


Nikolay Ivanovich Bogolyubov was a Soviet actor born in Ivanovskoye, Russian Empire and a People's Artist of the RSFSR. In 1933 he played in Boris Barnet's Okraina; in 1941, he was awarded the Stalin Prize.
Bogolyubov attended the studio school of the Ryazan town theater and joined its troupe in 1919. In 1923–1926, he studied at the
school of the Theater of the Russian Federation, named after its director Vsevolod Meyerhold. From 1938 to 1958, the actor belonged to the Moscow Art Theater.
Bogolyubov made his film debut in 1931 in Yakov Protazanov’s first sound picture Tommy. He also appeared in Boris Barnet’s Outskirts as the Bolshevik Nikolai who is executed for initiating fraternization with the German enemy at the end of World War I.
Bogolyubov played the role of a dogmatic functionary in Fridrikh Ermler’s Peasants, where he was cast as Nikolai Mironovich, head of the Political Department, who gives his all to transform the “backward farmer’s psychology.” In 1937–1939, Ermler cast Bogolyubov with the role of Party leader Petr Shakhov in The Great Citizen, for which the actor received a Stalin Prize in 1941. He worked with leading Soviet directors, including Sergei Gerasimov, the Vasilyev brothers, and Mikheil Chiaureli. Because of his likeness to Marshall Kliment Voroshilov, he became his screen double, for example, in Igor Savchenko’s The Third Blow.
Bogolyubov, who joined the Communist Party in 1950.

Partial filmography

Tommy as partisanOutskirts as Nikolai KadkinSeven Brave Men as Capt. Ilya LetnikovThe Great Citizen as Shakhov, the great citizen – Stalin Prize second degree The Oppenheim Family as Herman WellerLenin in 1918 as Voroshilov The Golden Key as Captain of the airshipThe Defense of Tsaritsyn. 1 episode: Voroshilov's Campaign as Kliment Voroshilov – Stalin Prize first degree Aleksandr Parkhomenko as VoroshilovLad from Our Town as Dr. BurminThe Defense of Tsaritsyn. 2nd episode: Defense as Kliment VoroshilovNebo Moskvy as Lt. Col. BalashevThe Vow as Aleksandr, her eldest sonBoy from the Outskirts as Stepan Shubin, factory directorThe Third Blow as VoroshilovThe Fall of Berlin as Factory Superintendent KumchinskyZhukovsky as Captain Aleksandr Mozhaysky Generali da zizilebi as Field MarshalLiberation III: Direction of the Main Blow as Kliment Voroshilov

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