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Alexander Sanin

Alexander Sanin
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Born Alexander Akimovich Schoenberg
15 April [O.S. 3 April] 1869
Berdichev, Russian Empire
Died May 8, 1956(1956-05-08) (aged 87)
Rome, Italy
Occupation Stage actor
Theatre director
Opera director
Film director
Acting teacher
Spouse(s) Lika Mizinova

Alexander Akimovich Sanin (Russian: Александр Акимович Санин, Shoenberg, Шёнберг; 15 April [O.S. 3 April] 1869 — 8 May 1956) was a Russian actor, director and acting teacher. He was a founder member of the Moscow Art Theatre and during his career directed plays, operas, and films.

Born in Berdichev, Alexander Shoenberg studied history and philology at the Moscow University. After meeting Konstantin Stanislavski, who was to become the major artistic influence in his life, he made his stage debut in 1887 with Stanislavski's Society of Art and Literature, with whom he also directed crowd scenes in the Meiningen manner. In 1898, he joined the newly founded Moscow Art Theatre company, at which point he adopted the stage name "Sanin." It was there that he gave his first critically acclaimed performance, as Lup-Kleshnin in Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich by A.K. Tolstoy. In tandem with Stanislavski, Sanin also co-directed Tsar Ioannovich, along with several other productions with the fledgling company, including The Sunken Bell by Gerhart Hauptmann (1898), The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare (1898), Men Above the Law by Alexey Pisemsky (1898), The Death of Ivan the Terrible by A.K. Tolstoy (1899), Snegurochka by Alexander Ostrovsky (1900), and The Wild Duck by Henrik Ibsen (1901).


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