- Igor Ilyinsky
Igor Vladimirovich Ilyinsky (1901-1987) was the favorite comic actor of
Vsevolod Meyerhold who starred in a number of his world-famous productions, including "Magnificent Cuckold" (1922),Vladimir Mayakovsky 's "Bedbug" (1928), andNikolai Gogol 's"The Government Inspector " (1926). Following Meyerhold's repression he moved to the Maly Theatre, where he worked for several decades, until being overpowered by blindness. Shortly before his death, he was declared aHero of Socialist Labour .Ilyinsky's career in movies was launched with a role of a private detective in
Yakov Protazanov 's "Aelita " (1924). He is best remembered by wider audiences as a roguishbureaucrat Ogurtsov in "Volga-Volga " (1938), in which he played againstLyubov Orlova , and "The Carnival Night" (1956), in which he played againstLyudmila Gurchenko . In the enormously popular "Hussar Ballad " (1962) Ilyinsky played Field-MarshalKutuzov . His autobiography was published in 1961.Legacy
A
minor planet 3622 Ilinsky , discovered by Soviet astronomerLyudmila Zhuravlyova in 1981 is named after Viktor Vasnetsov and Apollinary Vasnetsov. [cite book | last = Schmadel | first = Lutz D. | coauthors = | title = Dictionary of Minor Planet Names | pages = p. 305 | edition = 5th | year = 2003 | publisher = Springer Verlag | location = New York | url = http://books.google.com/books?q=3622+Ilinsky+1981 | id = ISBN 3540002383]References
ee also
*"The Feast of St. Jorgen"
*Faina Ranevskaya
*Erast Garin
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