Boris Sushkevich

Boris Sushkevich studied at Lomonosov Moscow State University. The recorded working language is Russian. The field of work recorded is acting, theatre and directing. Employment is recorded with Moscow Art Theatre. Distinctions recorded are Order of the Red Banner of Labour and People's Artist of the RSFSR.

• Name — Boris Sushkevich • Birth Name — Boris Mikhaylovich Sushkevich Борис Михайлович Сушкевич • Born — 7 February 1887 • Birthplace — Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire • Died — 10 July 1946 • Place of death — Leningrad, Soviet Union • Occupation — stage actor, theatre director, pedagogue

A Moscow University alumnus, Sushkevich joined the Moscow Art Theatre in 1912. A co-founder of the First Studio and one of its leaders, along with Yevgeny Vakhtangov, working under Leopold Sulerzhitsky, after the latter's death in 1916, he became its director and held this post until in 1924 it was re-organized into MAT-2, with Mikhail Chekhov at the helm. In 1919 Sushkevich directed The Robbers Friedrich Schiller at the just opened Great Drama Theater in Petrograd. In 1933 he moved to Leningrad and became the director of the Alexandrinsky Theatre, and in 1937 took up the directorship of the New Theatre (later Lensovet Theatre), where he remained the head of till his death in 1946. His artistic peak is considered to be the 1940 production of Gerhart Hauptmann's Before Sunrise in which he himself played the leading role.

Actress, theatre director and writer Nadezhda Bromley was his wife.