Alexander Zagarov, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Alexander Zagarov

Date of Birth: 17-Jan-1877

Place of Birth: Kropyvnytskyi, Kirovohrad Oblast, Ukraine

Date of Death: 12-Nov-1941

Profession: actor, stage actor, theater director

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Alexander Zagarov

  • Alexander Leonidovich von Fessing (Russian: ????????? ?????????? ??? ???????, 17 January 1877 - 12 November 1941) was a Yelisavetgrad-born Russian and Ukrainian, Soviet actor and theatre director, better known under his stage name Zagarov (???????). A Moscow Philharmonic Drama School graduate (where he studied under Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko), Zagarov joined the Moscow Art Theatre (where his father was an administrator) in 1898 and stayed with it (with breaks) until 1906.
  • His best-known roles here included Kleshch (The Lower Depths), Sorin (The Seagull), Publius and Pindarus (Julius Caesar).
  • All the while he worked in the Yaroslavl theatre (where he debuted as a director in 1901), was actively involved with Meyerhold's New Drama and (since 1901) read drama at the Philharmonic Drama School.In 1909-1910 he headed the Korsh Theatre; then moved to Alexandrinka to act and direct (1910-1916).
  • After 1917 Zagarov worked for ten years in Ukraine.
  • From 1921 to 1927 while in exile, he directed at the Ukrainian Discourse Theatre and Uzhgorod Theater "Prosvita".
  • He taught at the Lviv Drama School, published letters to defend the Ukrainian language in Western Ukraine.
  • In 1924 he played the role of a Ukrainian peasant in the German film "Golden Wolf".
  • He headed the city theatres in Kiev and Kharkiv, and co-founded the Donetsk Music and Drama Theatre.
  • Later he worked in Penza, Vladivostok, Khabarovsk, Kovrov and Saratov.
  • In 1940 Zagarov was honoured with the title Meritorious Practitioner of Arts of RSFSR.
  • "The master of high culture, tireless experimentor and a proponent of the Stanislavski and Nemirovich-Danchenko's ideas," was how the Theatre Encyclopedia described him.

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