Porfiri Podobed came from a Russian Orthodox family of Artemy Podobed and Elena Fyodorovna Karry, a well-known opera singer at the Bolshoi Theatre and a stepsister of Vasily and Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko.
10 Facts About Porfiri Podobed
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In 1910 Porfiri finished the Sea Cadet Corps in Saint Petersburg in the rank of michman.
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In 1915 Podobed joined the World War I He served aboard the Gangut battleship and took part in the Gulf of Finland mining for which he was awarded the 3rd class Order of Saint Stanislaus.
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In 1918 Porfiri Podobed took a managing position at the Moscow Art Theatre headed by his relative Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko.
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Porfiri Podobed left it in 1919, but regained in 1921 following the demobilization and worked there up until 1926.
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Porfiri Podobed was one of the founders of the MKhAT Museum.
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Also in 1918 Porfiri Podobed performed his first role in the Swamp Mirages drama movie directed by Victor Tourjansky and based on the Swamp Lights novel by Vasily Nemirovich-Danchenko.
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Kuleshov highly regarded his discipline and commitment, and in 1924 he gave Porfiri Podobed the leading role of a goofy American John West in one of the first Soviet comedies The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr West in the Land of the Bolsheviks.
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Porfiri Podobed later performed in several other movies by Kuleshov.
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Porfiri Podobed was buried at the Moscow Armenian Cemetery near his mother Elena Karry and his wife fr:Lydia Redega, a ballerina and ballet master at the Moscow Art Theatre Musical Studio.