Igor Ilyinsky
Igor Vladimirovich Ilyinsky was a famous Russian film and stage actor, director and comedian.
Igor Ilyinsky was born onJuly 1901 in Moscow. At agehe entered the Theatre Studio of Theodore Komisarjevsky and in half a year already debuted on the professional stage in Komissarjevsky Theatre. His first theatre role was that of the Old Man in Aristophanes play Lysistrata. In 1920, he joined the Vsevolod Meyerhold Theatre. The young actors style was in correspondence with the principles of Meyerhold, and so Ilyinsky soon became the central actor of that theatre. At the Meyerhold Theatre he worked for over ten years. It is interesting to note that for some time Ilyinsky was the only young actor, who Meyerhold respectfully called by his first and patronymic names, Igor Vladimirovich.
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