Arkady Raikin is a legendary actor of the Soviet theater and pop, an unsurpassed humorist, screenwriter and director, People's Artist of the USSR (1968), awarded the Golden Star of the Hero of Social Labor, laureate of the Lenin Prize (1980), creator of the Miniature Theatre. Arkady Isaakovich Raikin was born in Riga: he first made himself known to the world on October 24, 1911. Eleven years after this event, Father Arkady, a forest poacher, moved the family to St. Petersburg. In the city on the
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Arkady Raikin is a legendary actor of the Soviet theater and pop, an unsurpassed humorist, screenwriter and director, People's Artist of the USSR (1968), awarded the Golden Star of the Hero of Social Labor, laureate of the Lenin Prize (1980), creator of the Miniature Theatre.
Arkady Isaakovich Raikin was born in Riga: he first made himself known to the world on October 24, 1911. Eleven years after this event, Father Arkady, a forest poacher, moved the family to St. Petersburg. In the city on the Neva, Arkady became interested in the theater and began to study in the drama club.
After school, Raikin got a job as a laboratory assistant at a chemical enterprise, six years before the Great Patriotic War he graduated from the Leningrad College of Scenic Arts. Then there was the youth theater TRUM and the beginning of work on film projects. Speaking on the theatrical stage, Arkady Raikin played in his first films “Doctor Kalyuzhny” and “Fiery Years”.
Raikin became famous not as a movie actor, but as a pop artist. In the autumn of 1939, in the former first throne, Arkady Raikin became a laureate of the 1st All-Union Pop Artists Competition. Glory to him brought miniatures "Chaplin" and "Bear". In the same year he became an actor of the Leningrad Theatre of Pop and Miniatures. Despite the fact that the war was going on, art was necessary: in the fiery 1942, Raikin was appointed artistic director of his theater: in those years his performances were a gift to soldiers: together with his colleagues at the theater, Arkady Raikin performed at the front.
After the war, Raikin continued to work in the Theatre of Miniatures and starred in several more films. Together with the satirist writer V. S. Polyakov, he created theatrical programs “For a Cup of Tea”, “Do not pass by”, “Frankly speaking”. Arkady Isaakovich glorified the works of other satirical writers: Mikhail Zhvanetsky, Semyon Altov, Mark Azov.
In 1974, the actor starred in a television series.
film "People and Mannequins" Based on the actor's script.
In 1982, Arkady Raikin moved to Moscow with the theater, which received the name of the State Theater of Miniatures (now Satyricon). Since 1991, the theater has been named after Arkady Raikin.
The outstanding artist died on December 20, 1987 in Moscow. /
