Alexey Pokrovsky

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]

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