Nikolai Sosnin was a Russian actor of Moscow Art Theatre.
He was born Nikolai Nikolaevich Soloviev on May 5, 1884, in Russian
Empire. During the 1900s he studied to be an architect at Moscow
College of Art, Sculpture and Architecture; there he caught an acting
bug and dropped out to join a touring troupe. He changed his name to
Sosnin and played at theatres in Kiev, Astrakhan, Voronezh, Simferopol,
and other cities. In 1931 he moved to Moscow and joined the company at
Korsh Theatre.
From 1933 - 1960 Nikolai Sosnin was a permanent member of the troupe at
Moscow Art Theatre (MKhAT). There his stage partners were such renown
Russian actors as
Alla Tarasova,
Ivan Moskvin,
Nikolay Khmelyov,
Anatoli Ktorov,
Olga Androvskaya,
Angelina Stepanova,
Anastasiya Georgievskaya,
Kira Golovko,
Nina Gulyaeva,
Mikhail Yanshin,
Aleksey Gribov,
Boris Livanov,
Mikhail Kedrov,
Viktor Stanitsyn,
Vasili Toporkov,
Mark Prudkin,
Mikhail Bolduman,
Pavel Massalsky, and others. Sosnin gave
acclaimed performances in classic plays by
Anton Chekhov, such as Tuzenbakh in 'Tri
sestry' (aka.. The Three Sisters), and played two roles - as Gayev and
as Trofimov in 'Vishnevy sad' (aka.. The Cherry Orchard). He shone as
Aleksai Turbin in 'Dni Turbinykh' (aka.. The days of the Turbins) by
Mikhail A. Bulgakov. Sosnin appeared
as Karenin opposite
Alla Tarasova in 'Anna
Karenina', the legendary adaptation of
Lev Tolstoy's novel by directors
Konstantin Stanislavski and
Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko;
it was captured on film as
Anna Karenina (1953).
Nikolai Sosnin was designated People's Actor of Russia (1957). He died
of natural causes on November 26, 1962, in Moscow, and was laid to rest
in Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow, Russia.
Anna Karenina(1953)as Aleksei Aleksandrovich Karenin
The Man with the Gun(1938)as Sibirchev
Rodina zovyot(1936)as Orthopaedic Surgeon
V ugare NEPa(1925)as Korabelnikov