Vasili Vanin


Vasili Vasilyevich Vanin was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor, theatre director and pedagogue. He was given the award People's Artist of the USSR in 1949.

Biography

Vasili Vanin was born on 13 January 1898 in Tambov, in the family of a small railway employee. Having lost his father early, in 1906 he was assigned to an orphanage/ Between 1924 and 1950 he was actor and director in the Mossovet Theatre; from 1950 the leader of the Moscow Pushkin Drama Theatre.

Filmography

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Honors and awards