Aleksei Petrenko
Aleksei Vasilyevich Petrenko (26 March 1938 – 22 February 2017) was a Soviet and Russian film and stage actor. He played Grigori Rasputin in Elem Klimov's historical drama Agony and Joseph Stalin in the BBC Two documentary World War II: Behind Closed Doors. • Illustration — Petrenko (right) greeting President Vladimir Putin in 2001
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Aleksei Petrenko

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- Name
- Aleksei Petrenko
- Birth Name
- Aleksei Vasilyevich Petrenko
- Born
- 26 March 1938
- Birthplace
- Chemer, Kozelets Raion, Chernigov Oblast, Ukrainian SSR
- Died
- 22 February 2017
- Place of death
- Moscow, Russia
- Spouse
- Azima Abdumaminova
- Occupation
- actor
- Nationality
- Soviet Union · Russia
- Education
- Kharkiv National University of Arts
- Honours
- Order For Merit to the Fatherland and 4th class · Order of Honour · State Prize of the Russian Federation · Honored Artist of the RSFSR · People's Artist of Ukraine · People's Artist of the RSFSR
- Languages
- Ukrainian · Russian
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Aleksei Vasilyevich Petrenko (26 March 1938 – 22 February 2017) was a Soviet and Russian film and stage actor. He played Grigori Rasputin in Elem Klimov's historical drama Agony and Joseph Stalin in the BBC Two documentary World War II: Behind Closed Doors. • Illustration — Petrenko (right) greeting President Vladimir Putin in 2001
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Aleksei Petrenko (1938–2017) was an actor and musician, of Russian and Soviet nationality. The actor was born in Chemer and died in Moscow. Aleksei Petrenko was educated at Kharkiv National University of Arts.
Languages used include Russian and Ukrainian. Honours include Honored Artist of the RSFSR, Order of Honour and People's Artist of the RSFSR, among others.
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Aleksei Petrenko studied at Kharkiv National University of Arts. The recorded working language is Ukrainian and Russian. Distinctions recorded are Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 4th class, Order of Honour, State Prize of the Russian Federation and Honored Artist of the RSFSR.
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Key facts
• Name — Aleksei Petrenko • Native Name — Алексей Петренко • Birth Name — Aleksei Vasilyevich Petrenko • Born — 26 March 1938 • Birthplace — Chemer, Kozelets Raion, Chernigov Oblast, Ukrainian SSR • Died — 22 February 2017 • Place of death — Moscow, Russia • Spouse — Azima Abdumaminova • Years Active — 1961–2017 • Occupation — actor • Website — * Illustration — People's Artist of the RSFSR
Selected filmography
Selected filmography
• King Lear (Король Лир, 1970) as Oswald • How Czar Peter the Great Married Off His Moor (Сказ про то, как царь Пётр арапа женил, 1976) as Peter the Great • Twenty Days Without War (Двадцать дней без войны, 1977) as Yuri Stroganov • Beda (Беда, 1977) as Kirill Alekseevich, the Director of the school • Yuliya Vrevskaya (Юлия Вревская, 1978) as Stepan Knyazev • Marriage (Женитьба, 1978) as Podkolesin Ivan Kuzmich • Agony (Агония, 1981) as Grigori Rasputin • Farewell (Прощание, 1983) as Vorontsov • TASS Is Authorized to Declare... (ТАСС уполномочен заявить, 1984, TV Mini-Series) as Paul Dick • Lev Tolstoy (Лев Толстой, 1984) as Vladimir Grigoryevich Chertkov • A Cruel Romance (Жестокий романс, 1984) as Knurov • Day of Wrath (День гнева, 1985) as Meller • The Prisoner of Château d'If (Узник замка Иф, 1988, TV Series) as Abbé Faria • The Servant (Слуга, 1989) as Roman Romanovich Bryzgin • The Feasts of Belshazzar, or a Night with Stalin (Пиры Валтасара, или Ночь со Сталиным, 1989) as Joseph Stalin • Presence (Присутствие, 1992) as Petya • Candles in the Dark (1993) as episode • Musketeers Twenty Years After (Мушкетёры двадцать лет спустя, 1992) as King Charles I • The Barber of Siberia (Сибирский цирюльник, 1998) as General Radlov • Memoirs on Sherlock Holmes (Воспоминания о Шерлоке Холмсе, 2000, TV Series) as Arthur Conan Doyle • In August 1944 (В августе 44-го..., 2001) as General Yegorov • The Idiot (Идиот, 2003, TV Mini-Series) as general Ardalion Ivolgin • Lilacs (Ветка сирени, 2007) as Nicholas Zverev • 12 (2007) as 5th Juror • Illusion of Fear (Иллюзия страха, 2008) as Petrovsky • World War II Behind Closed Doors: Stalin, the Nazis and the West (Вторая мировая война. За закрытыми дверями: Сталин, нацизм и и Запад, 2008, TV Series documentary) as Joseph Stalin • Wolf Messing: Who Saw through Time (Вольф Мессинг: видевший сквозь время, 2009, TV Series) as Joseph Stalin • Bury Me Behind the Baseboard (Похороните меня за плинтусом, 2009) as Granddad • Into The Storm (Навстречу шторму, 2009, TV Movie) as Joseph Stalin • Burnt by the Sun 2 (Утомлённые солнцем 2, 2010) as elderly lieutenant-accountant • Yolki 2 (Ёлки 2, 2011) as Grigory Zemlyanikin • Petrovich (Петрович, 2012) as Trofim Petrovich Streltsov • Viktor (Виктор, 2014) as Vetrov • Yolki 5 (Ёлки 5, 2016) as Grigory Zemlyanikin • Hoffmaniada (Гофманиада, 2018) as Coppelius / Sandman (final film role, released posthumously)
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Chemer.
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Moscow.
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q1966992: Aleksei Petrenko
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Awards
• Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1984) • People's Artist of the RSFSR (1988) • Order For Merit to the Fatherland 4th class (1998) • State Prize of the Russian Federation(1999) • People's Artist of Ukraine (1999) • Golden Eagle Award (2007) • Order of Honour (2014)
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- 1.Жену Алексея Петренко заказали сплетники. Mk.ru. Retrieved on 23 February 2017.
- 2.Peter Rollberg. Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema. Rowman / Littlefield. 528–529. 2009. 978-0-8108-6072-8.
- 3.Скончался актёр Алексей Петренко. tass.ru (23 February 2017)
- 4.World War II: Behind Closed Doors. Bbc.co.uk (10 November 2008). Retrieved on 23 February 2017.
- 5.«Указ Президента РФ от 28 марта 1998 г. N 295...». kremlin.ru (28 March 199). Retrieved on 12 January 2020.
- 6.Нагороджений Указом Президента України від 8 вересня 1999 року № 1147. Zakon1.rada.gov.ua. Retrieved on 23 February 2017.
- 7.Указ Президента Российской Федерации от 25 октября 2014 года № 680 «О награждении государственными наградами Российской Федерации. (PDF) . Retrieved on 23 February 2017.
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