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Nikolay Akimov

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Soviet theatre director and scenic designer (1901-1968)

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Nikolay Pavlovich Akimov was a Soviet experimental theatre director and scenic designer noted for his work with the Leningrad Comedy Theatre. His most notorious production was the cynical version of Hamlet (1932), with Ophelia as a drunken prostitute and the king's ghost as a clever mystification arranged by Hamlet.

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1961Order of the Red Banner of Labour
1960People's Artist of the USSR
1939Order of the Red Banner of Labour
1939Honored art worker of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
Medal "For the Defence of Leningrad"
Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"
People's Artist of the RSFSR
People's Artist of the Tajik SSR
Jubilee Medal Medal "In Commemoration of the 250th Anniversary of Leningrad"
Order of the Red Star

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Nikolay Pavlovich Akimov was a Soviet experimental theatre director and scenic designer noted for his work with the Leningrad Comedy Theatre. His most notorious production was the cynical version of Hamlet (1932), with Ophelia as a drunken prostitute and the king's ghost as a clever mystification arranged by Hamlet. Akimov, who was the Comedy Theater director in 1935-1949 and 1956-1968, wrote several books, among them About Theater and Not Just About Theater, and was designated a People's Artist of the USSR in 1960.

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deceased
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Lived 1901 to 1968 · aged 67
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