Acting
Stage and screen actor. His first wife was Natalya Lisenko. His second wife was Yelena Shatrova, which he is buried next to. He held a law degree from the Saint Petersburg Imperial University.
Fearing the Soviet Union, rich businessmen who want more influence in Europe decide to give the nation of Boufferia a new king, an easy to handle drunkard.
Soviet film based on Dostoevsky's autobiographical novel of his prison experiences in Tsarist days.
A Jewish parvenu climbs the social ladder by seducing wealthy women.
Based on the novel The Man Who Killed by Claude Farrère.
Since Zoya Verenskaya's husband passed away ten years ago, she has been devoted to her daughter Lee. At present, Lee is in poor health, and she is in danger of losing her eyesight. Zoya's suitor Dmitry wants to get married, but Zoya is determined to wait until Lee is better. Then, on a vacation in the Crimea, they learn Lee's true feelings for Dmitry, and suddenly all of their lives are thrown into turmoil.
The lives of two young men-- A virtuous artist who's renounced a background of riches and a debonair swindler proclaimed by many the King of Paris-- intersect when the artist's mother becomes the target of the kingly charlatan.
Based on the play Miss Julie by August Strindberg.
An agent working for the Tsar fools a group of Bolshevik sailors but is captured and punished after the revolution.