Leonid Markov

Leonid Vasilyevich Markov (; 13 December 1927 – 1 March 1991) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor. People's Artist of the USSR (1985). Biography Markov was born in the village Alekseyevka (now Akkol). In the years 1931-1934, he played children's roles in the Saratov Drama Theater, where his father, actor Vasily Demyanovich Markov, worked. In 1945, Leonid, together with his older sister, Rimma Markova, entered the studio of the Vologda Drama Theatre, where he studied until 1947. At the end of the studio in 1951, Markov was admitted to the troupe of Lenin Komsomol, the scene of which debuted in 1947 as Nekhoda in the play The Honor of His Youth. Markov played Yasha and later Petya Trofimov in The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov, Petrushin in The Living Corpse by Leo Tolstoy, and a number of other roles of the classical and contemporary repertoire.