Nikolai Radin

Russian actor
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroRussian actor
PlacesRussia
wasActor
Work fieldFilm, TV, Stage & Radio
Gender
Male
Birth3 December 1872, Saint Petersburg, Tsardom of Russia
Death24 August 1935Moscow, Russia (aged 62 years)
Star signSagittarius
Awards
Merited Artist of the RSFSR 
The details

Biography

Nikolai Mariusovich Kazankov (Russian: Николай Мариусович Радин; 15 December 1872 – 24 August 1935), known professionally as Nikolai Radin, was a Russian stage and silent film actor and director.

Biography

Nikolai Mariusovich Kazankov was born on 15 December 1872 to Marius Mariusovich Petipa, an actor, and Mariya Kazankova, a dressmaker. Nikolai was a grandson of the famous choreographer Marius Petipa. His parents never married.

Radin received his education at Faculty of Law, Saint Petersburg State University in 1900. Fascinated by the theater, he began his career as a stage actor. Gradually he became known for being a dramatic actor.

For many years, he and his second wife, actress Yelena Shatrova, worked as actors at the theater Korsch in Moscow. In 1932 the theater Korsch was closed, and they began working at the Maly Theatre.

Radin died on 24 August 1935. He was buried at Vagankovo Cemetery.

Selected filmography

  • Marionetki (1934) as "Re" - The Archbishop
  • Myortvyy dom (1932) as L.V. Doubelt
  • Predatel (1926)
  • Mechta i zhizn (1918) as Valerij Radomski
  • Za schastiem (short) (1917) as Dmitry, a lawyer
  • Nabat (1917)
  • The King of Paris (1917) as Rascol Venkov
  • Teni liubvi (1917)
  • Plebey (1915) as Jean
  • Andrey Toboltsev (1915)
  • Leon Drey (1915)
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