Nikolai Cherkasov, the Russian actor who has played such heroic roles as Alexander Nevsky and Ivan the Terrible, performs the lanky Don Quixote, and does so with a simple dignity that bridges the inner nobility and the surface absurdity of this poignant man.

* 1978 – Ivan Urgant, Russian television host and actor

* 1983 – Timati, Russian rapper and actor

The Australian band VulgarGrad, fronted by actor Jacek Koman, which plays songs of the Russian criminal underground, uses a contrabass balalaika.

* 1949 – Mikhail Boyarsky, Soviet / Russian actor and singer

( See Kuleshov Experiment ) He took an old film clip of a head shot of a noted Russian actor and intercut the shot with a shot of a bowl of soup, then with a child playing with a teddy bear, then with a shot an elderly woman in a casket.

* 1964 – Andrey Zvyagintsev, Russian film director and actor

* 1987 – Vladimir Garin, Russian actor ( d. 2003 )

* 1990 – Alexander Yakin, Russian actor

* 1920 – Yul Brynner, Russian actor ( d. 1985 )

* 1903 – Nikolay Cherkasov, Russian actor ( d. 1966 )

* 1935 – Vasily Livanov, Russian actor and screenwriter

* Anatoly Borisovich Kuznetsov ( born 1930 ), Soviet / Russian actor

* 1953 – Aleksandr Abdulov, Russian actor ( d. 2008 )

* 1922 – Vladimir Etush, Russian actor

* 1989 – Anton Yelchin, Russian / American actor

* 1922 – Yevgeny Matveyev, Russian actor and film director ( d. 2003 )

* 1915 – Georgiy Zhzhonov, Russian actor and writer ( d. 2005 )

* 1928 – Aleksey Batalov, Russian actor

* 1960 – Oleg Menshikov, Russian actor

* 1899 – Akim Tamiroff, Russian actor ( d. 1972 )

* 1964 – Igor Jijikine, Russian actor

* 1-Yevgeny Matveyev, 81, Russian actor and film director.

* Fyodor Volkov, Russian actor

* 1858 – Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, Russian theatre director ( d. 1943 )

* 1863 – Constantin Stanislavski, Russian theatre practitioner ( d. 1938 )

Category: Russian and Soviet theatre directors

Category: Russian and Soviet theatre directors

* January 17 – Constantin Stanislavski, Russian theatre practitioner and founder of modern realistic acting ( d. 1938 )

Pierrot in Petrograd: Commedia dell ’ Arte / Balagan in twentieth-century Russian theatre and drama.

The great Russian theatre practitioner Constantin Stanislavski developed storyboards in his detailed production plans for his Moscow Art Theatre performances ( such as of Chekhov's The Seagull in 1898 ).

At the beginning of World War I, East Prussia became a theatre of war when the Russian Empire invaded the country.

The Russian Health Minister Yuri Shevchenko later stated that the incapacitating agent used in the storming of the Moscow theatre siege was a fentanyl derivative.

Maskhadov said he felt responsible for those " who resorted to self-sacrifice in despair ", but also said the " barbaric and inhumane policies " of the Russian leadership were ultimately to blame and criticised the storming of the theatre.

Nord-Ost (, means " North-East " in German ) is a Russian musical theatre production that was composed by Aleksei Ivaschenko and Georgii Vasilyev, based on the novel The Two Captains by Veniamin Kaverin.

Vasiliyev showed his financiers a marketing study stating that 30 % of Moscow's population fit the profile audience that would be willing to pay for the production, due to changing sensibilities and increasing incomes The Russian theatre community had a prejudice against this kind of play.

Peter Baker and Susan Glasser said that the Russian theatre community " considered the concept the thespian version of McDonald's.

At Covent Garden theatre he robbed the Russian Count Orlov of a snuff-box, said to be worth £ 30, 000.

Minor landmarks include the archiepiscopal palace and memorial arch, both dating from the 1780s, and the enormous theatre in the blend of the Neo-Renaissance and Russian Revival styles.

Alexander Petrovich Sumarokov (;, Moscow –, Moscow ) was a Russian poet and playwright who single-handedly created classical theatre in Russia, thus assisting Mikhail Lomonosov to inaugurate the reign of classicism in Russian literature.

He ran the first permanent public theatre in the Russian capital, where he worked with the likes of Fyodor Volkov and Ivan Dmitrievsky.

Two years later, he appeared at the same theatre, in Russian playwright Maxim Gorki's classic The Lower Depths for the Royal Shakespeare Company.

With the arrival of further Russian reinforcements, Menshikov's total force in theatre ( including 12 Division ) numbered around 65, 000.

While Napoleon had assessed that the Coalition forces in and around Brussels on the borders of north east France posed the greatest threat because Tolly's Russian army of 150, 000 were still not in the theatre, Spain was slow to mobilise, Prince Schwarzenberg's Austrian army of 210, 000 were slow to cross the Rhine, and another Austrian force menacing the south eastern frontier of France was still not a direct threat, Napoleon still had to place some badly needed forces in positions where they could defend France against other Coalition forces whatever the outcome of the Waterloo campaign.

In 1988, Die Toten Hosen released the LP Ein kleines bisschen Horrorschau ( A little bit of horrorshow-" horrorshow " is Nadsat for " ok ", coming from the Russian word хорошо ( khorosho ( good ))) referring to the phrase in A Clockwork Orange ), which featured the song Hier kommt Alex " ( referring to the movie A Clockwork Orange based on the book by Anthony Burgess ); in 1988, Bernd Schadewald produced a German theatre version of the book, in which the band performed as actors and musicians.

* Roman Kozak — Russian theatre actor and director

In the autumn of 2002, the separatists launched a massive campaign of terrorism against the Russian civilians, including the Dubrovka theatre attack.