Boris Babochkin

Boris Andreyevich Babochkin was a wellknown Soviet film and theatre actor and director. Boris Babochkin was one of the first internationally recognized stars of the SovietRussian cinema. He rose to fame with the title role in the classic film Chapaev and later, in the 1950s, he played a sharp anticommunist character on stage in Moscow, for which he was censored by the Soviet Communist Party.

Babochkin was born onJanuary 1904, in Saratov on the Volga river in Russia. His father, Andrei Babochkin, came from a family of Russian merchants and traders. The father had owned a successful trade business in the city of Saratov on Volga, then sold his business and worked for a railroad. The Babochkins lived in Krasny Kut, a small station near Saratov. His mother, a school teacher, was fond of Russian classical literature, and young Babochkin was brought up in an intellectually stimulating environment. Young Boris Babochkin and his brother were fond of acting and were involved in amateur theatre productions in Saratov. At ageBoris joined the Red Army and served for one year in the same front on Volga and the Urals with the legendary commander Chapayev, whom he would later portray, although they never met.

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