Boris
Ivanovich Volkov

Russia • 1900−1970

Biography and information

Soviet theater artist.
Honored Art Worker of the RSFSR (1947)
People's Artist of the RSFSR (16.07.1958)
People's Artist of the USSR (1965)

He studied at the Stroganov School (1913 - 1918) with F.F. Fedorovsky, in the workshops of the
People's House (1913 - 1916) by D. Polenov
and in VHUTEMAS (1918 - 1923) with A. Lentulov, V. Tatlin, D.P. Sterenberg.

In 1924 - 1940 - the chief artist of the Theater of the name of MGSPS,
in 1941 - 1949 - MAMT named after K.S. Stanislavsky and V.I. Nemirovich-Danchenko,
since 1951 - the Maly Theater. Collaborated with the State Academic Bolshoi Theater and the Moscow Art Theater