12 Facts About Yevgeny Yevstigneyev

Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevstigneyev was a prominent Soviet and Russian stage and film actor, theatre pedagogue, one of the founders of the Moscow Sovremennik Theatre.

Yevgeny Yevstigneyev was named People's Artist of the USSR in 1983 and awarded the USSR State Prize in 1974.

Yevgeny Yevstigneyev was born on 9 October 1926 in Nizhny Novgorod, Russian SFSR into a poor working-class family and spent his childhood at the outskirts in the Volodarsky village.

Yevgeny Yevstigneyev was a late child of Maria Ivanovna Yevstigneyeva, a milling machine operator, and a metallurgist Aleksandr Mikhailovich Yevstigneyev who was twenty years older than her and who died when Yevgeny was six years old.

Yevgeny Yevstigneyev passed the entering exams in 1947 and graduated in 1951.

Yevgeny Yevstigneyev became an actor of the Vladimir Regional Drama Theatre where he served from 1951 to 1954.

Yevgeny Yevstigneyev quickly rose to fame as the most talented and versatile actor of Vladimir, performing 23 roles in total.

In 1954 a Moscow Art Theatre actor Mikhail Zimin who had previously studied with Yevgeny Yevstigneyev returned for him and asked to join the Nemirovich-Danchenko School-Studio at MKhAT.

Yevgeny Yevstigneyev was accepted and went straight to the third course, graduating in 1956 and becoming an actor of the Moscow Art Theatre where he served for a year.

Yevgeny Yevstigneyev followed him along with some other actors, although, according to his colleague Igor Kvasha, he was against this move and tried to convince everyone to stay at Sovremennik.

Yevgeny Yevstigneyev starred in an epic historical mini-series Yermak as Ivan the Terrible which became his last role.

Yevgeny Yevstigneyev was transported back to Moscow and buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery.