Nikolay Khoschanov

Meritorious Artist of the RF Nikolay Vasilyevich Khoschanov was born on 2 June 1906.He graduated from the Vakhtangov Theatre School (1931-1933).He worked at the Vakhtangov Theatre from 1934 till 1941.He played at the Moscow Art Theatre (1938-1952), Moscow Theater of Drama and Comedy (1952-1964), and at the Taganka Theatre under Yury Lyubimov.Nikolay Vasilyevich Khoschanov died on 8 November 1998.



Gipsy (The Aristocrats, 1935)
Matsko (Intervention, 1933)
Borachio (Much Ado About Nothing, 1936)

At the Moscow Art Theatre he brilliantly played Tatarin (The Lower Depths)
At Alexander Plotnikov Theatre (of Drama and Comedy) — Yeliseyev (Flatmates)
Rutilio (Punishment Without Vengeance)
In Lyubimov’s performances Khoschanov created a number of vivid and remarkable episodic images:
General, seller of kerosene, minister, senator, dignitary, moonshiner, Duma deputy (Ten Days that Shook the World)
Senior official (Life of Galileo)
General (Alive)

The Lower Depths, 1952
Case № 306, 1956
The Night Without Mercy, 1961