Georgy Taratorkin

Georgy Georgievich Taratorkin (; 11 January 1945 – 4 February 2017) was a Soviet-Russian film and stage actor who appeared in over 70 films between 1967 and 2017. He was the Secretary of the Union of Theatre Workers of the Russian Federation and President of the Association Golden Mask. Biography Georgy Taratorkin was born on January 11, 1945, in Leningrad in the family of Georgy Georgievich Taratorkin and Nina Aleksandrovna Taratorkina. He grew up in a difficult post-war time. After school he worked as a lighting technician in the Theater for Young Spectators, where he was noticed by the artistic director of the theater Zinovy Korogodsky and was admitted to the drama studio at the Bryantsev Youth Theatre. In 1966, he graduated from the studio and until 1974 played the leading roles in the Theater for Young Spectators. In the cinema, the actor made his debut in 1967 as the role of regicide committer Grinevitsky in the film Sofiya Perovskaya. His portrayal of Raskolnikov in the film Crime and Punishment (1969) based on the novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Along with other filmmakers, the actor was awarded the USSR State Prize in 1971.