1. Mikhail Mikhailovich Kozakov was a Soviet, Russian and Israeli film and theatre director and actor.
15 Facts About Mikhail Kozakov
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Mikhail Kozakov was born on 14 October 1934 in Leningrad, the youngest of three brothers.
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Mikhail Kozakov's father Mikhail Emmanuilovich Kozakov was a Soviet writer and playwright of Jewish origin originally from the Poltava Governorate who served as a commissar in Lubny during the Russian Civil War, then worked as a journalist in Leningrad.
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Mikhail Kozakov was friends with many acclaimed writers who visited Kozakovs' apartment on the Griboyedov Canal, including Evgeny Schwartz, Mikhail Zoshchenko, Anatoly Marienhof, Boris Eikhenbaum and Anna Akhmatova.
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Mikhail Kozakov then returned to the city and continued the secondary education.
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In 1956, Mikhail Kozakov graduated from the Moscow Art Theatre School.
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From 1956 to 1959 Mikhail Kozakov was an actor of the Mayakovsky Theatre.
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The play was closed, and Mikhail Kozakov went to the Theater on Malaya Bronnaya to Dunayev and Efros.
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In 1986, Mikhail Kozakov left the Theater on Malaya Bronnaya in Lenk.
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Since 2003, Mikhail Kozakov was actor of the Mossovet Theatre.
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In 1997, Mikhail Kozakov's "Acting Book" was published, in which he tells about his life, about different times and people of art in them.
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Mikhail Kozakov went through unsuccessful treatment in Israel and died on 22 April 2011 in a clinic near Tel Aviv.
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Mikhail Kozakov was buried at the Vvedenskoye Cemetery in Moscow near his father, in accordance with his will.
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Mikhail Kozakov left his last wife Nadezhda Sedova in 2010 with a scandal, claiming that she had stolen his flat and that she was the cause of his illness, and fled to his fourth wife Anna Yampolskaya who lived in Israel along with their children Mikhail and Zoya.
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Mikhail Kozakov had a daughter Katerina and a son Kirill, a prominent Russian actor, from his first marriage to Greta Taar, as well as a daughter Manana from his second marriage to Medea Berelashvili.