Mikhail Khrabrov was a Russian character actor known as Platon Karataev
in
War and Peace (1965).
He was born Mikhail Sergeevich Khrabrov, in 1924, in Russia. During the
Second World War, he served in the Red Army. From the 60s through the
90s Khrabrov was a permanent member of the troupe at the Theatre of
Komissarzhevskoi in St. Petersburg. There his stage partners were such
actors as
Galina Korotkevich,
Tamara Abrosimova,
Natalya Chetverikova,
Natalya Danilova,
Valentina Panina,
Tatiana Samarina,
Elena Simonova,
Aleksandr Galibin,
Yefim Kamenetsky,
Ivan Krasko,
Georgiy Korolchuk,
Stanislav Landgraf, Vladimir Osobik,
Boris Sokolov,
Petr Shelokhonov, and
other notable Russian actors. Mikhail Khrabrov was designated People's
Actor of Russia and was awarded for his works on stage and in film.
Over the course of his acting career he played over 100 roles on stage,
and also appeared in over 20 film and on television productions.
Mikhail Khrabrov made memorable readings of Russian classic literature
on Leningrad/St. Petersburg radio shows. He died in 2003 and was laid
to rest in Volkovskoe Cemetery, in St. Petersburg, Russia.