Alexey Pokrovsky

Alexey Pokrovsky
Born Alexey Nikolayevich Pokrovsky
(1924-03-01)1 March 1924
Moscow, RSFSR, USSR
Died 30 August 2009(2009-08-30) (aged 85)
Moscow, Russia
Occupation actor, singer
Years active 1945 — 2009
Spouse(s) Alina Pokrovskaya

Alexey Nikolayevich Pokrovsky (Russian: Алексе́й Никола́евич Покро́вский; March 1, 1924 — August 30, 2009) was an actor and singer, People's Artist of the RSFSR (1981).[1]

Biography

In 1945 he was accepted into the troupe of the Moscow Art Theater. In 1977 he left the theatre because of divergences in his views with Oleg Yefremov.[2]

From the end of the 1940s he appeared in films, including in the films The Star (1953) and True Friends (1954)[1].

He became well known as a performer of songs and romances. In the 1960s and 1980s, he sang 12 musical and poetic compositions on television,[3] in which the best poems and songs of the era were presented in the interpretation of the artist, who accompanied himself on a small Viennese seven-string Russian guitar. Laureate of the festivals Pesnya goda 1974 and 1975.[4]

He died on August 30, 2009[1]. He was buried in Moscow at the Vagankovskoye Cemetery (plot 26).[5]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Алексей Покровский. Биография
  2. ↑ Алексей Покровский — Интервью — Эхо Москвы
  3. ↑ С чего начинается Родина
  4. ↑ Алексей Покровский — Песни советских композиторов
  5. ↑ Могила Алексея Покровского
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