# Mikhail Nazvanov

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{{Short description|Soviet actor}}
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{{Infobox person
| honorific_suffix =
| image            = Mikhail Nazvanov 1947.JPG
| caption          = Mikhail Nazvanov in ''[The Russian Question](/source/The_Russian_Question)'' (1947)
| name             = Mikhail Nazvanov
| birth_name       = Mikhail Mikhailovich Nazvanov
| birth_date       = {{Birth date|1914|2|12|df=yes}}
| birth_place      = [Moscow](/source/Moscow), [Russian Empire](/source/Russian_Empire)
| death_date       = {{Death date and age|1964|7|13|1914|2|12|df=yes}}
| death_place      = Moscow, [Soviet Union](/source/Soviet_Union)
| occupation       = Actor
| years_active     = 1931–1964 
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'''Mikhail Mikhailovich Nazvanov''' ({{Langx|ru|Михаил Михайлович Названов}}; 12 April 1918 – 13 July 1964) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor. He was awarded [Honored Artist of the RSFSR](/source/Honored_Artist_of_the_RSFSR) in 1949.

==Biography==
Mikhail Nazvanov was born in Moscow in the wealthy family of a large technologist-technologist Mikhail K. Nazhanov; his mother, Olga Nikolayevna Butomo-Nazhanova, was a famous chamber singer.<ref name="gav">{{Cite journal |author = Гаврилов, И. |editor=  |format= |url= http://kinoart.ru/archive/2000/05/n5-article28|title= Светлый путь Михаила Названова |type=|orig-year=| agency =  |edition= Искусство кино|location=  |date= |year= 2000|publisher=  |at=  |volume=  |issue=  |number= 5|pages =  |page=  |series=  |isbn =  |issn =  |doi =  |bibcode =  |arxiv =  |pmid =  |ref=  gav|archive-date =  |language=  |quote=  }}</ref> In 1931 he graduated from [Academic Music College](/source/Academic_Music_College).<ref name="gav" />

Between 1931 and 1935 Nazvanov studied acting at the Drama Studio of the [Moscow Art Theatre](/source/Moscow_Art_Theatre).<ref name="gav" /> April 1935 he was arrested and until 1940 imprisoned in [Gulag](/source/Gulag) ([article 58-10](/source/Article_58_(RSFSR_Penal_Code)), [Ukhtpechlag](/source/Ukhtpechlag)).<ref name="gav" />

In 1942 Nazvanov was invited to join the [Mossovet Theatre](/source/Mossovet_Theatre); between 1950 and 1957 he was member of the troupe at the [Moscow Pushkin Drama Theatre](/source/Moscow_Pushkin_Drama_Theatre).<ref name="push">[https://teatrpushkin.ru/persona/detail/nazvanov-mihail-mihailovich/#:~:text=%D0%A0%D0%B5%D0%B0%D0%B1%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B8%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD%20%D0%92%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%85%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%BC%20%D0%A1%D1%83%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%BC%20%D0%A1%D0%A1%D0%A1%D0%A0%2030.12,%D0%93%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%8C%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BE Названов Михаил Михайлович]  // Сайт Театра имени Пушкина</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |author = Леонов В. (V. Leonov)|editor=  |format= |url=  |title= Михаил Названов |type=  |orig-year= | agency =  |edition= Актёры советского кино. Выпуск 3 (сборник статей)  |location= М. |date=   |year= 1967 |publisher= Искусство |at=  |volume=  |issue=  |number= |pages =  |page= 156 |series=  |isbn =  |issn =  |doi =  |bibcode =  |arxiv =  |pmid =  |ref=  |archive-url =  |archive-date =  |language=  ru|quote=  }}</ref> In 1957 he was again invited to join the Art Theater, which, however, left in 1960 and became actor in the [Mosfilm](/source/Mosfilm)-studio. As a stage actor he played Trigorin in ''[The Seagull](/source/The_Seagull)'', Krechinsky in ''[Krechinsky's Wedding](/source/Krechinsky's_Wedding_(1953_film))'', Ripafratta in ''[The Mistress of the Inn](/source/The_Mistress_of_the_Inn)'', Robert Chiltern in ''[An Ideal Husband](/source/An_Ideal_Husband)'', and Stiva Oblonsky in ''[Anna Karenina](/source/Anna_Karenina).''

Mikhail Nazvanov made his film debut in 1943 in the popular film ''[Wait for Me](/source/Wait_for_Me_(1943_film))'' and immediately gained fame. [Sergei Eisenstein](/source/Sergei_Eisenstein) invited him to the role of [Andrey Kurbsky](/source/Andrey_Kurbsky) in ''[Ivan the Terrible](/source/Ivan_the_Terrible_(1944_film))''.<ref>{{Cite journal |author = Леонов В. (V. Leonov)|editor=  |format= |url=  |title= Михаил Названов |type=  |orig-year= | agency =  |edition= Актёры советского кино. Выпуск 3 (сборник статей)  |location= М. |year= 1967 |publisher= Искусство |at=  |volume=  |issue=  |number= |pages=  157–160|series=  |isbn =  |issn =  |doi =  |bibcode =  |arxiv =  |pmid =  |ref=  |archive-url =  |archive-date =  |language=  |quote=  }}</ref> He collaborated also with such famous directors as [Grigori Aleksandrov](/source/Grigori_Aleksandrov) (''Encounter at the Elbe'', ''The Composer Glinka''), [Vsevolod Pudovkin](/source/Vsevolod_Pudovkin) (''Zhukovsky''), [Mikhail Romm](/source/Mikhail_Romm) (''The Russian Question'', ''Attack from the Sea''), [Grigori Kozintsev](/source/Grigori_Kozintsev) (''Belinsky'', ''Hamlet''). Nazvanov has also directed film ''The Mistress of the Inn''.

==Selected filmography==
thumb|250px|Mikhail Nazvanov as Kurbsky (''Ivan the Terrible'')
* ''[Wait for Me](/source/Wait_for_Me_(1943_film))'' (1943) as Andrei Panov
* ''[Ivan the Terrible](/source/Ivan_the_Terrible_(1944_film))'' (1944) as prince [Andrey Kurbsky](/source/Andrey_Kurbsky)
* ''[The Great Glinka](/source/The_Great_Glinka)'' (1946) as hussar Kostya
* ''[The Russian Question](/source/The_Russian_Question)'' (1947) as Jack Gould – [Stalin Prize](/source/State_Stalin_Prize) first degree (1948)
* ''[Encounter at the Elbe](/source/Encounter_at_the_Elbe)'' (1949) as James Hill – [Stalin Prize](/source/State_Stalin_Prize) first degree (1950)
* ''[The Battle of Stalingrad](/source/The_Battle_of_Stalingrad_(film))'' (1949) as Colonel [Ivan Lyudnikov](/source/Ivan_Lyudnikov)
* ''[Taras Shevchenko](/source/Taras_Shevchenko_(film))'' (1951) as [Nicholas I of Russia](/source/Nicholas_I_of_Russia), [Alexander II of Russia](/source/Alexander_II_of_Russia)
* ''[Belinsky](/source/Belinsky_(film))'' (1951) as Nicholas I of Russia
* ''[Zhukovsky](/source/Zhukovsky_(film))'' (1951) as Ryabushinsky
* ''[The Composer Glinka](/source/The_Composer_Glinka)'' (1952) as [Nicholas I of Russia](/source/Nicholas_I_of_Russia)
* ''[Attack from the Sea](/source/Attack_from_the_Sea)'' (1952) as [Alexander I of Russia](/source/Alexander_I_of_Russia)
* ''[The Safety Match](/source/The_Safety_Match)'' (1954) as Mark Ivanovich Klyauzov
* ''The Mistress of the Inn'' (1956) as Ripafratta (also director)
* ''[Gutta-percha Boy](/source/Gutta-percha_Boy)'' (1957) as Karl Bogdanovich Bekker
* ''[Duel](/source/Duel_(1957_film))'' (1960) as Vladimir Nikolayev
* ''[The Fight on a Way](/source/The_Fight_on_a_Way)'' (1961) as Semyon Valgan 
* ''[My Younger Brother](/source/My_Younger_Brother)'' (1962) as Andrei Ivanovich, professor
* ''[Hamlet](/source/Hamlet_(1964_film))'' (1964) as [Claudius](/source/King_Claudius)

== Honors and awards ==

* [Honored Artist of the RSFSR](/source/Honored_Artist_of_the_RSFSR) (1949)
* Two [Stalin Prizes](/source/State_Stalin_Prize) first degree (1948, 1950)
* [Stalin Prize](/source/State_Stalin_Prize) second degree (1949)
* [Order of the Badge of Honour](/source/Order_of_the_Badge_of_Honour) (1950)

==References==
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== External links ==
* {{IMDb name|0623442}}

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