{{Short description|Russian actor (1930–2025)}} {{Distinguish|Ivan Krasko}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2025}} {{Infobox person | honorific_suffix = | name = Ivan Krasko | native_name = Иван Краско | image = Ivan Ivanovich Krasko.JPG | caption = Krasko in 2015 | birth_name = Ivan Ivanovich Bakhvalov | birth_date = {{birth date|1930|9|23|df=y}} | birth_place = {{ill|Vartemyagi|ru|Вартемяги|fi|Vartiamäki}}, {{ill|Finnish National Rayon|ru|Куйвозовский финский национальный район|fi|Kuivaisten piiri}}, Leningrad Oblast, Russian SFSR, USSR | death_date = {{death date and age|2025|8|9|1930|9|23|df=y}} | death_place = Saint Petersburg, Russia | othername = | occupation = Actor, writer | years_active = 1961–2020 | spouse = {{plainlist| * {{marriage|Yekaterina Ivanova|1951|1955}} * {{marriage|Kira Petrova|1956|1997}} * {{marriage|Natalia Vyal|2001|2011}} * {{marriage|Natalia Shevel|2015|2020}} }} | children = 5, including Andrey Krasko | partner = | website = }}
'''Ivan Ivanovich Krasko''' ({{langx|ru|Иван Иванович Краско}}; 23 September 1930 – 9 August 2025) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor and writer. He was named a People's Artist of Russia(1992).<ref>[https://ru.wikisource.org/wiki/Указ_Президента_РФ_от_21.02.1992_№_168 Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 21 февраля 1992 года № 168]</ref>
==Early life and career== Krasko was born in an agricultural suburb of Leningrad. His mother, Anastasia Krasko was of Ukrainian and Polish descent, she suddenly died when Ivan was only a ten-month old baby. When Ivan Krasko was five, his father, Ivan Bakhvalov, died of alcoholism. After losing both of his parents at an early age, he was raised by his grandmother who changed his last name from Bakhvalov to Krasko. As a teenager, he survived the Siege of Leningrad during Second World War. In 1953, Ivan Krasko graduated from Leningrad Navy College and served as captain of a patrol boat on the river Danube for one year. From 1954 to 1956 he studied literature and history at the Leningrad State University. From 1957 to 1961 he studied acting at Russian State Institute of Performing Arts, graduating in 1961.
From 1961 to 1965 he was a member of the troupe at Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theater in Leningrad. From 1965 until his death he was a member of the troupe at Komissarzhevskaya Theatre where Ivan Krasko played leading and supporting roles under the leadership of a notable director Ruben Agamirzyan and other directors. Among his stage partners were such actors as Galina Korotkevich, Georgi Korolchuk, Stanislav Landgraf, Mikhail Khrabrov, Yelena Safonova, and Petr Shelokhonov.<ref name="autogenerated1">Book "My best friend Petr Shelokhonov" (2009, Russian) by actor Ivan I. Krasko — Saint Petersburg, Russia: SOLO Publishing, 2009. {{ISBN|978-5-904666-09-5}}</ref><ref name="narod1">{{cite web |url=http://www.petr-shelokhonov-en.narod.ru/index.html|title=Petr Shelokhonov, Honorable Actor of Russia}}</ref>
His son, Andrey Krasko was also a notable Russian actor.
In 2009, Ivan Krasko co-authored a book of memoirs titled ''My Вest Friend Petr Shelokhonov'', in which he wrote about his best friend Petr Shelokhonov and their partnership on stage, in films, and in life.<ref name="autogenerated1"/><ref name="narod1"/>
== Personal life and death == * First wife (1951–1955) — Yekaterina Ivanova. One daughter Galina * Second wife (1956–1997) — Kira Petrova. Two children: son — actor Andrey Krasko, daughter Julia Svekrovskaya-Krasko (born 1966) * Third wife (2001–2011) — Natalia Vyal. Two sons: Ivan and Fyodor * Fourth wife (2015–2018) — Natalia Shevel (born 1990)<ref>[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/russian-actor-ivan-krasko-84-marries-24-year-old-former-student-and-wants-children-10496761.html Russian actor Ivan Krasko, 84, marries 24-year-old former student and wants children]</ref><ref>[https://kp.ua/culture/616918-u-nas-ne-bylo-seksa-yvan-krasko-y-natalia-shevel-obiavyly-o-razvode Иван Краско и Наталья Шевель объявили о разводе 4 сентября 2011 года]</ref>
In 2022, Krasko said in an interview that he would not oppose the mobilization of his own sons after Russia's military invasion of Ukraine.<ref>{{Cite web|lang=ru|url=https://prozvezd.info/shou-biznes/20220923-obyazut-synovei-sluzit-poidut-ivan|title=Иван Краско отреагировал на новость о частичной мобилизации|website=Prozvezd.info|date=23 September 2022|access-date=18 May 2024|archive-date=17 May 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240517213013/https://prozvezd.info/shou-biznes/20220923-obyazut-synovei-sluzit-poidut-ivan|url-status=live}}</ref>
Krasko died on 9 August 2025, at the age of 94, after suffering his fourth stroke.<ref>[https://rtvi.com/news/umer-akter-ivan-krasko/ Умер актёр Иван Краско] {{in lang|ru}}</ref><ref>Скончался народный артист России Иван Иванович Краско[https://www.teatrvfk.ru/skonchalsya-ivan-ivanovich-krasko/] {{in lang|ru}}</ref>
==Filmography== {{castlist| *''In S. City'' (1966) – writer *''The Prince and the Pauper'' (1972) – Miles Hendon *''Squadron of Flying Hussars'' (1980) – colonel Ustimovich *''Truth of Lieutenant Klimov'' (1981) – staff officer *''Semyon Dezhnev'' (1983) – merchant Guselnikov *''The Hobbit'' (1985) – Gandalf *''The Last Road'' (1986) – captain Rakeyev *''Mister Designer'' (1988) – servant *''Afghan Breakdown'' (1991) – colonel Viktor Nikolayevich *''A Beautiful Stranger'' (1992) – Grigori Rasputin *''The White Horse'' (1993) – American *''You Exist...'' (1993) – traditional healer *''Marigolds in Flower'' (1998) – bum *''Streets of Broken Lights 2'' (1999) – Pavel "Contrabass" Levitin *''Empire Under Attack'' (2000) – elder Kondraty *''Peculiarities of the National Hunt in Winter Season'' (2000) – Vladimir Lenin the rescuer *''Little Longnose'' (2003) – the King (voice) *''Alyosha Popovich and Tugarin Zmey'' (2004) – Svyatogor (voice) *''Streets of Broken Lights 6'' (2004) – Ivan Ivanovich *''Brezhnev'' (2005) – collective farm chairman *''Female Novel'' (2005) – Vladislav Petrovich *''The Master and Margarita'' (2005) – taxi driver *''Taras Bulba'' (2009) – Kasyan Bovdyug *''Fortress of War'' (2010) – narrator *''Peter the Great: The Testament'' (2011) – old man *''The Admirer'' (2012) – Leo Tolstoy *''The White Guard'' (2012) – Maksim }} == Awards and honours == * Honored Artist of the RSFSR (20 December 1976) * People's Artist of Russia (21 February 1992; first artist to receive that title) * Order of Honour (2010) * Jubilee Medal "70 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945" * Golden Mask (2018)
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== * {{IMDb name|0469909}} * [https://www.kinopoisk.ru/name/273422/ Ivan Krasko] on KinoPoisk
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