Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko

Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko studied at Lomonosov Moscow State University. Aleksandr Kanin, Olga Knipper and Vsevolod Meyerhold are recorded as having studied under Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko. The recorded working language is Russian. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are theatre. Employment is recorded with Moscow Art Theatre. Distinctions recorded are Stalin Prize, Order of Lenin, People's Artist of the USSR and Order of the Red Banner of Labour.

• Name — Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko • Native Name — Владимир Немирович-Данченко • Birth Name — Vladimir Ivanovich Danchenko • Born — 23 December 1858 • Birthplace — Shemokmedi, Russian Empire • Died — 25 April 1943 • Place of death — Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union • Resting Place — Novodevichy Cemetery, Moscow • Education — Moscow State University • Occupation — Actor Theatre director Theatre pedagogist • Movement — Naturalism Symbolism Psychological realism Socialist realism • Notable Works — Founder of the Moscow Art Theatre and Stanislavski and Nemirovich-Danchenko Theatre Vladimir Ivanovich Nemirovich-Danchenko (23 December 1858 – 25 April 1943) was a Soviet and Russian theatre director, writer, pedagogue, playwright, producer and theatre administrator, who founded the Moscow Art Theatre with his colleague, Konstantin Stanislavski, in 1898.

• Illustration — Nemirovich-Danchenko, c. 1900 Vladimir Ivanovich Danchenko was born into a Russian noble family of mixed Ukrainian-Armenian descent, in the village of Shemokmedi near Ozurgeti (Guria, Georgia). His father, Ivan Danchenko, was an officer in the Imperial Russian Army, and his mother, Aleksandra Yagubyan (1829–1914), was Armenian from the Governorate of Tiflis. He went to high school in Tbilisi, continuing his education at Moscow State University (physical-mathematical and juridical departments, 1876–1879). In 1879, he left the university for the theatre, starting as a theatre critic, and in 1881, his first play "Dog-rose", which was staged in one year by Maly Theatre, was published. He was a teacher of Ivan Moskvin, Olga Knipper and Vsevolod Meyerhold. In 1919, he established the Musical Theatre of the Moscow Art Theatre, which was reformed into the Nemirovich-Danchenko Musical Theatre in 1926. In 1943 Nemirovich-Danchenko established the Moscow Art Theatre School, which is still extant. He died of a heart attack on 25 April 1943, aged 84, in Moscow.

• The Brothers Karamazov (1910) • Resurrection (1930) • Anna Karenina (1937) • Three Sisters (1940)

Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko is recorded as having received Stalin Prize, Order of Lenin and People's Artist of the USSR. Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko is recorded as dramaturge, director, theatre critic, screenwriter and drama teacher.