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Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was born in 1860, the third of six children to a family of a grocer, in Taganrog, Russia, a southern seaport and resort on the Azov Sea. His father, a 3rd-rank Member of the Merchant's Guild, was a religious fanatic and a tyrant who used his children as slaves. Young Chekhov was a part-time assistant in his father's business and also a singer in a church choir. At age 15, he was abandoned by his bankrupt father and lived alone for 3 years while finishing the Classical Gymnazium in Taganrog. Chekhov obtained a scholarship at the Moscow University Medical School in 1879, from which he graduated in 1884 as a Medical Doctor. He practiced general medicine for about ten years.
While a student, Chekhov published numerous short stories and humorous sketches under a pseudonym. He reserved his real name for serious medical publications, saying "medicine is my wife; literature - a mistress." While a doctor, he kept writing and had success with his first books, and his first play "Ivanov." He gradually decreased his medical practice in favor of writing. Chekhov created his own style based on objectivity, brevity, originality, and compassion. It was different from the mainstream Russian literature's scrupulous analytical depiction of "heroes." Chekhov used a delicate fabric of hints, subtle nuances in dialogs, and precise details. He described his original style as an "objective manner of writing." He avoided stereotyping and instructive political messages in favor of cool comic irony. Praised by writers Lev Tolstoy and Nikolai Leskov, he was awarded the Pushkin Prize from the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1888.
In 1890, Chekhov made a lengthy journey to Siberia and to the remote prison-island of Sakhalin. There, he surveyed thousands of convicts and conducted research for a dissertation about the life of prisoners. His research grew bigger than a dissertation, and in 1894, he published a detailed social-analytical essay on the Russian penitentiary system in Siberia and the Far East, titled "Island of Sakhalin." Chekhov's valuable research was later used and quoted by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in his "Gulag Archipelago." In 1897-1899, Chekhov returned to his medical practice in order to stop the epidemic of cholera.
Chekhov developed special relationship with Stanislavsky and Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko at the Moscow Art Theater. He emerged as a mature playwright who influenced the modern theater. In the plays "Uncle Vanya," "Three Sisters," "Seagull," and "Cherry Orchard," he mastered the use of understatement, anticlimax, and implied emotion. The leading actress of the Moscow Art Theater, Olga Knipper-Chekhova, became his wife. In 1898, Chekhov moved to his Mediterranean-style home at the Black Sea resort of Yalta in the Crimea. There he was visited by writers Lev Tolstoy, Maxim Gorky, Ivan Bunin, and artists Konstantin Korovin and Isaac Levitan.- Actor
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Pavel Derevyanko was born on 2 July 1976 in Taganrog, Rostov Oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. He is an actor, known for Podelniki (2021), Fortress of War (2010) and Catherine the Great (2015).- Actor
- Producer
Viktor Dobronravov was born on 8 March 1983 in Taganrog, Rostovskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. He is an actor and producer, known for T-34 (2018), Forgotten Experiment (2023) and Fortune (2021). He has been married to Aleksandra Torgushnikova since 23 March 2010. They have two children.- Actress
- Writer
Faina Ranevskaya was born Faina Georgievna Feldman in Taganrog. Her father was the head of the local synagogue. Her family eventually left the country, but Faina stayed in the Soviet Union and went on to become one of the country's most acclaimed stage and screen actresses. One of her most famous movie roles was as the stepmother in a 1947 musical adaptation of "Cinderella" (called "Zolushka" in Russian). After her death, Ranevskaya was buried in the Donskoye Cemetery. Post-Soviet Russia issued a stamp bearing her likeness. The Ranevskaya Monument was unveiled in 2008 in front of her birth house.- Actor
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Nikolay Dobrynin was born on 17 August 1963 in Taganrog, Rostovskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. He is an actor, known for Russkiy regtaym (1993), Svaty (2008) and Gromozeka (2011).- Actor
- Producer
Fyodor Dobronravov was born on 11 September 1961 in Taganrog, Rostovskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. He is an actor and producer, known for Svaty (2008), Ot pechali do radosti (2020) and Zhili-byli (2017). He has been married to Irina Dobronravova since 1983. They have two children.- Writer
- Director
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Jean Manoussi was born on 14 November 1868 in Taganrog, Russia. She was a writer and director, known for Le grillon du foyer (1922), Fedora (1926) and L'homme bleu (1919). She died on 21 December 1929 in Paris, France.- Director
- Actor
- Writer
Ivane Perestiani was born on 13 April 1870 in Taganrog, Don Voisko Oblast, Russian Empire [now Rostov Oblast, Russia]. He was a director and actor, known for Sami sitsotskhle (1924), Savur-Mogila (1926) and Suramis tsikhe (1922). He died on 14 May 1959 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].- Bob Chuprov-Tsymba was born on 15 July 1931 in Taganrog, Rostov Oblast, RSFSR, USSR. He was an actor, known for Sluchay v kvadrate '36-80' (1982), Zaveshchaniye professora Douelya (1984) and Chyornyy, kak ya (1969). He died on 28 April 2012 in Moscow, Russia.
- Ivan Lagutin was born on 19 May 1887 in Taganrog, Don Voisko Oblast, Russian Empire [now Rostov Oblast, Russia]. He was an actor, known for Alexander Nevsky (1938), Kak possorilis Ivan Ivanovich s Ivanom Nikiforovichem (1941) and Babiy log (1925). He died on 21 July 1952 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].
- Genaro Spagnoli was born on 4 December 1885 in Taganrog, Russia. He was an actor, known for Honeymoon Hate (1927) and Lost: A Wife (1925). He died on 3 March 1948 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Aleksandr Ardi was born on 16 January 1888 in Taganrog, Russian Empire. He was an actor, known for Lyubov Yarovaya (1953) and Dostigaev i drugie (1961). He died on 4 January 1973 in Leningrad, USSR.
- Zinovi Vysokovsky was born on 28 November 1932 in Taganrog, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Rostov Oblast, Russia]. He was an actor, known for Bezumnyy den ili zhenitba Figaro (1974), Druzya i gody (1966) and Zhivye i myortvye (1964). He died on 3 August 2009 in Moscow, Russia.
- Iosif Prut was born on 18 November 1900 in Taganrog, Don Voisko Oblast, Russian Empire [now Rostov Oblast, Russia]. He was a writer, known for God 19-yy (1938), V mirnye dni (1951) and Moya lyubov (1940). He died on 16 July 1996 in Brest, Belarus.
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Alexander Polonsky was born in 1860 in Taganrog, Yekaterinoslav Governorate, Russian Empire [now Rostov oblast, Russia]. He was an actor, known for Taras Bulba (1924), Knyaz Demir Bulat (1916) and Der Adjutant des Zaren (1929). He died on 16 June 1944 in Paris, France.- Music Department
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Mikhail Tanich was a Russian poet-songwriter known for such hits as "Black cat" and "Komarovo" among other popular songs.
He was born Mikhail Isaevich Tankhilevich on 15 September 1923, in Taganrog, Soviet Union (now Taganrog, Russia). His father, Isaiah Tankhilevich, was executed by the gunshot under the dictatorship of Joseph Stalin; at the same time, his mother was imprisoned. Young Tanich was raised by his grandfather; he graduated from high school in June 1941, when the Nazis invaded the Soviet Union in WWII. He became an artillery officer, fought against the Nazis on the Belorussian Front, and was decorated for his courage in battles, ending the war near Berlin, on the river Elbe. After the war he studied architecture. At that time Tanich praised the advancements of the Western technology and mentioned that the German radio made by Telefunken was better than a Soviet-made radio. For that comment Tanich was arrested in 1947, and imprisoned in Solikamsk Gulag camp in Siberia. There he served 6 years until the death of Stalin in 1953.
Tanich made his first publications in the 1950s, during the cultural Thaw under Nikita Khrushchev. He shot to fame with his songwriting debut, "Tekstilny Gorodok," a popular song of the 60s, co-written with the composer Yan Frenkel. At that time, Tanich became part of the Moscow cultural milieu among such figures as Bulat Okudzhava, Klavdia Shulzhenko, Nikita Bogoslovskiy, Vladimir Shainsky, Oskar Feltsman, Arkadi Ostrovsky, Yuriy Saulskiy, and Igor Nikolayev, among others. His songs were sung by such Russian singers as Iosif Kobzon, Eduard Khil, Muslim Magomayev, Maia Kristalinskaya, Edita Pekha, Alla Pugacheva, Alena Apina, Valeriy Leontev and Larisa Dolina.
In 1990 Tanich became the founding member of the popular Russian band, Lesopoval. He co-wrote about a hundred songs for the band, making it a successful show and recording project during the 1990s and 2000s. He also collaborated with the younger generation of Russian singers, such as Igor Nikolaev, Arkadi Ukupnik, and Viacheslav Malezhik.
Mikhail Tanich was a member of the Union of Soviet and Russian Writers, and the author of 15 books. He received numerous awards and decorations from the Russian and Soviet state, including the "Ovation" National Prize (1997), and was designated Honorable Cultural Figure of Russia (2001). He died of a kidney cancer on 17 April, 2008, at the Botkin Hospital in Moscow, and was laid to rest in Vagankovskoe Cemetery, in Moscow, Russia.- Evgeniya Kravchenko was born in 1913 in Taganrog, Russian Empire. She is an actress, known for Bryunetka za 30 kopeek (1991), Davay pozhenimsya (1982) and Obochina (1978).
- Vatslav Mikhalsky was born on 27 June 1938 in Taganrog, RSFSR, USSR [now Rostov Oblast, Russia]. He was a writer, known for Ballada o starom oruzhii (1986), Za chto? (1991) and Katenka (1988). He died on 5 April 2024 in Russia.
- Aleksandr Vishnevsky was born on 20 January 1861 in Taganrog, Russia. He was an actor, known for Pobeda zhenshchiny (1927), Holiday of St. Jorgen (1930) and Kaliostro (1918). He died on 27 February 1943 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
- Tatyana Abramenko was born on 4 October 1983 in Taganrog, Rostovskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. She is an actress, known for Chisto moskovskie ubiystva -1 (2017), Zemskiy doktor. Lyubov vopreki (2014) and Ischeznuvshaya (2017).
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- Composer
- Music Department
Igor Grigoriev was born on 21 October 1966 in Taganrog, Rostovskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. He is an actor and composer, known for Serdtse moyo - Astana (2012), Igor Grigoriev: Sny moey vesny (2010) and Igor Grigoriev: Delirium (2014).- Aleksandr Kovalyov was born on 24 February 1970 in Taganrog, Rostovskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].
- Ludmilla Tchor was born on 9 April 1937 in Taganrog, Azov-Black Sea Krai, RSFSR, USSR [now Rostov Oblast, Russia]. She is an actress, known for The Girl Grabbers (1968), On Camera (1954) and Encounter (1952).
- Anatoliy Morozov was born on 8 November 1949 in Taganrog, Rostovskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia]. He is an actor, known for Vverkh tormashkami (1992), Tem, kto ostayotsya zhit (1982) and Serramoura (2014).
- Anatoliy Morozov was born on 8 November 1949 in Taganrog, Russia. He is an actor, known for Hooked (2009), Na beregu bolshoy reki (1981) and What Men Talk About (2010).
- Viliam Shatunovsky was born in 1910 in Taganrog, Don Host Oblast, Russian Empire [now Rostov oblast, Russia]. He was an actor, known for Quiet Flows the Don (1957) and Tikhiy Don II (1958). He died in 1985 in Rostov-na-Donu, Rostov oblast, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].
- Yeva Milyutina was born on 14 December 1893 in Taganrog, Don Host Oblast, Russian Empire [now Rostov oblast, Russia]. She was an actress, known for The Girl with the Hat Box (1927), Tragediya Evlampiya Chirkina (1925) and Vezde i vsegda negramontnomu beda (1926). She died on 13 October 1977 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].
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- Production Designer
- Art Department
Albina Baranska was born on 5 August 1932 in Taganrog, North Caucasus Krai, RSFSR, USSR [now Rostov Oblast, Russia]. She was a set decorator and production designer, known for Horror w Wesolych Bagniskach (1995), Kawalerskie zycie na obczyznie (1992) and Zapach psiej siersci (1982). She was married to Andrzej Baranski. She died on 10 March 2018 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.- Music Department
- Composer
- Soundtrack
Witold Rowicki was born on 26 February 1914 in Taganrog, Russian Empire [now Rostov Oblast, Russia]. He was a composer, known for The People Under the Stairs (1991), Czarci zleb (1950) and The Eighth Day of the Week (1958). He died on 2 October 1989 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.- Actor
- Writer
Viktor Dyomin was born on 8 May 1937 in Taganrog, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Rostov Oblast, Russia]. He is an actor and writer, known for A byl li Karotin (1990), Vrag naroda - Bukharin (1991) and Vogeshenchum (1976).- Composer
- Music Department
- Sound Department
Soviet composer, sound engineer and conductor. Organizer (1941) and first head of the State Orchestra of the USSR Ministry of Cinematography. Honored Artist of the Tajik SSR (1940). He began his creative career in 1905 as a conductor of an orchestra accompanying silent films. Studied at the Rostov Conservatory (1913-1918). During the silent film period, he led orchestras in major cinemas, scoring silent films and composing music for them. Since 1930, he began working in sound films (in 1931-1947 - sound designer and sound engineer). Since 1938, he was also a conductor at the Soyuzdetfilm film studio, in 1948 - Mosfilm. Conducted the premiere of the Second Suite by S.S. Prokofiev from Romeo and Juliet. David Blok wrote and edited music for more than 200 films. He was a member of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee. He was buried at the Vostryakovsky cemetery.- Mikhail Rostovtsev was born on 22 October 1872 in Taganrog, Don Voisko Oblast, Russian Empire [now Rostov Oblast, Russia]. He was an actor, known for Devushka speshit na svidanie (1936), Chuzhie (1929) and Kosaya liniya (1929). He died on 19 April 1948 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].