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Pyotr Arzhanov - Biography, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Filmography
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Petr Arzhanov was born on June 1, 1901 in Samara. The first stage of stage activity at that time, still a non-professional actor, was the trade union theater in Samara. In 1925, Arzhanov left for Moscow forever, where he became an active member of the Blue Blouse theater association and entered GITIS. There, the future actor with great pleasure adopts the experience of Andrei Petrovsky, Serafima Birgman and Boris Sushkevich. After graduating from GITIS, he was a trainee in the troupe of the Moscow Art Theater for some time, after which he worked in the troupe of the Realistic Theater, created on the basis of the Moscow Art Theater. The best work of a young actor at this time can be called the role of Captain Kostya in the production of Aristocrats based on the play by Nikolai Pogodin. Since 1937, the actor has been working in the troupe of the Chamber Theater in Moscow. On his stage, the brilliant talent of the actor was fully manifested in such productions as Face-to-face confrontation based on the play of the same name by the brothers Tur and Lev Sheinin, where he embodies the image of Captain Lartsev, the main role of Kochubei in the production of the same name based on the play by Arkady Perventsev, or the image of Gerald in the production of He came from the play of the same name by John Priestley. More than one generation of viewers remembered the bright, characteristic roles of Pyotr Arzhanov.
The brilliantly played role of the commissioner in the drama Bezhin lug by Alexander Gladkov becomes the first experience of working as an actor in cinema. The next successful role of the actor is the image of the director of an oil company in the war film directed by Vladimir Shneiderov, the Alamas Gorge. In 1941 he briefly joined the troupe of the Moscow Drama Theater. His best roles of this period undoubtedly should be considered the images of Captain Safonov in the production of Russian People and Lukonin, staged based on the play of the same name by Konstantin Simonov and the brilliant lieutenant Rzhevsky, staged Long ago after the play of the same name by Alexander Gladkov.
In 1947, the artist resumed work at the Chamber Theater and for the first time received truly nationwide recognition, starring in the cult war drama directed by Boris Barnett, where he appeared as the brave intelligence officer Karpovsky and the German officer Stenberg. In 1948, the actor joined the troupe of the Mayakovsky Theater, which became his permanent place of work until the end of his life. At this time, the theatrical "calling cards" of the actor are the images of Troyan in the production of the Hotel Astoria based on the play of the same name by Alexander Stein and the charming Chef in the play Mother Courage and her children based on the play of the same name by Bertold Brecht. Many Soviet viewers remembered films with Pyotr Arzhanov, which entered the golden treasury of Soviet classics, for example, such as the drama Alien Letters by director Ilya Averbakh, in which he appears in the form of the charming Nikolai Artyomovich. Arzhanov's last film was the historical drama of the talented director Elem Klimov, where the actor appears in the small role of Goremykin.
Since 1954 he is the Honored Artist of the RSFSR. Petr Arzhanov died on October 17, 1978, his grave is located at the Vagankovskoye cemetery in Moscow.
Pyotr Arzhanov has brown eyes, naturally dark hair color, fair skin and thin lips. The shape of the face is oval, the forehead is medium, the hair is straight, soft. Petr Arzhanov did not change his hair color, preferring natural. The actor has a long, straight nose and an oval chin. The actor's height is 171 cm, no tattoos.
