Mikhail Artemyevich Kuznetsov (1918−1986) was a Soviet film and theatre actor, the winner of the Stalin Prize of the first degree, People’s Artist of the RSFSR.
He was born on 25 February 1918 in Bogorodsk (now Noginsk, Moscow Oblast). He finished the Drama Department of the Stanislavsky State Opera and Drama Studio in 1941. His cinema career started while he was a student.
From 1950 till the middle of the 1960s, Mikhail Kuznetsov was a staff actor at the Kiev Film Studio. At that time he starred in a large number of films. Mikhail Kuznetsov moved to Moscow in the middle of the 1960s to join the Film Actor Studio Theatre.
His characters were distinguished by inner passion, sincere lyricism and gentle humour. Among his best roles in the cinema were Alexey Solovyev in
Mashenka, Fyodor Basmanov in
Ivan the Terrible, Doctor Kolosov in In the
Name of Life, Solder Skobelev in
Taras Shevchenko, Taras in
Marina’s Destiny, Chizhik in
Salor Chizhik, Anton Lutenko in
The Silver Coach, Colonel Lartsev in
The Game without Rules, Laktionov in
The Guarneri Quartet, Soldier in
The Magic Weaver, Military Governor Prozorovsky in
The Young Russia, Chistov in
Mister High-School Student.
The card with a commemorative stamp depicts Mikhail Kuznetsov’s portrait and a scene from
Ivan the Terrible (Mosfilm Studio, 1945) in which he starred in the role of Fyodor Basmanov.
Design: V. Khablovsky.
Circulation: 10 thousand.
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