Yuri Alexandrovich Zavadsky was a Russia

Russia

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n actor

Actor

An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

 and director.

Zavadsky studied under Yevgeny Vakhtangov

Yevgeny Vakhtangov

Yevgeny Bagrationovich Vakhtangov was a Russian actor and theatre director who founded the Vakhtangov Theatre. He was a friend and mentor of Michael Chekhov.Vakhtangov was born to Armenian-Russian parents from Ossetia in Vladikavkaz...

, and made his acting debut at Vakhtangov's theatre, playing Anthony in Maurice Maeterlinck

Maurice Maeterlinck

Maurice Polydore Marie Bernard Maeterlinck, also called Comte Maeterlinck from 1932, was a Belgian playwright, poet, and essayist who wrote in French. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911. The main themes in his work are death and the meaning of life...

's play The Miracle of St. Anthony in (1915). He worked in various Russian theatres before moving to the Mossovet Theatre in Moscow

Moscow

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 as a director in 1940. The most famous actors of his company were Rostislav Plyatt

Rostislav Plyatt

Rostislav Plyatt is a famous Russian actor. He appeared in numerous films from 1939 to 1987 including Makes the Whole World Kin, Seventeen Moments of Spring, Going Inside a Storm, and Zoya. He won the People's Artist of the USSR in 1961 and State Prize winner of the USSR in 1982. He was born in...

 (1908-89), Faina Ranevskaya

Faina Ranevskaya

Faina Georgievna Ranevskaya is recognized as one of the greatest Soviet Russian actors in both tragedy and comedy. She was also famous for her aphorisms....

 (1896-1984), Lyubov Orlova

Lyubov Orlova

Lyubov Petrovna Orlova, was the first recognized star of Soviet cinema, famous theatre actress and a gifted singer.She was born to a middle class family in Zvenigorod near Moscow and grew up in Yaroslavl...

 (1902-75), and his wife Vera Maretskaya

Vera Maretskaya

Vera Petrovna Maretskaya was a Russian actress.-Early years:Vera Petrovna Maretskaya was born on July 31, 1906, in Barvikha, a suburb of Moscow. Young Maretskaya helped her father, named Petr Maretsky, who was a candy bar vendor at Moscow Circus...

(1906-1978).

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