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Yevgeny Bagrationovich Vakhtangov (also spelled Evgeny or Eugene; Russian: Евге́ний Багратио́нович Вахта́нгов; 13 February 1883 – 29 May 1922) was a Russian actor and theatre director who founded the Vakhtangov Theatre. He was a friend and mentor of Michael Chekhov.
Apr 12, 2024 · Yevgeny Bagrationovich Vakhtangov (born Feb. 1 [Feb. 13, New Style], 1883, Vladikavkaz, Russia—died May 29, 1922, Moscow) was a Russian theatrical director of the Moscow Art Theatre. A pupil of Konstantin Stanislavsky, Vakhtangov succeeded by the early 1920s in reconciling the naturalistic acting techniques of his master with the bold ...
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Dec 5, 2011 · Vakhtangov, who was of Armenian and Russian descent, was born in 1883 in the North Caucasus city of Vladikavkaz. The main theater in that city is now named in his honor. While studying law and ...
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Yevgeny Vakhtangov died in May 1922, only four months after his production of The Dybbuk opened in Moscow. Had he lived, one wonders whether he would have continued the practice of casting a woman as Khonen. But after Vakhtangov’s death, male actors played Khonen in the Habima company’s subsequent productions of The Dybbuk.
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Yevgeni Vakhtangov (yĬvgā´nyē väkhtän´gôf), 1883–1922, Russian actor, producer, and founder of the Moscow theater that bears his name. A pupil and friend of Stanislavsky, Vakhtangov joined the Moscow Art Theatre, and in 1914, in charge of an affiliated studio, he produced an enormously successful Macbeth.
The name of Evgeny Vakhtangov is connected with history of the Institute, with its Past and Future forever. He was born on February 1 (13), 1883 in Vladikavkaz in a Russian-Armenian family of a tobacco manufacturer. Having got enthusiastic about theatre he rejected his father’s legacy and a career in commerce.
Dec 1, 2013 · The Vakhtangov Sourcebook. Edited and translated by Andrei Malaev-Babel. London: Routledge, 2011; 400 pp.; illustrations. $120.00 cloth, $33.95 paper, e-book available; Yevgeny Vakhtangov: A Critical Portrait. By Andrei Malaev-Babel.
