Nikolai Plotnikov

Nikolai Plotnikov was a Russian actor and director at Vakhtangov Theatre in Moscow. He was born Nikolai Sergeyevich Plotnikov on November 5, 1897, in Vyazma, Smolensk province, Russian Empire (now Vyazma, Russia). His father, Sergei Plotnikov, was a barber, his mother was a homemaker. In 1910, when Plotnikov was 12, his mother died and he was sent ...