Konstantin Adashevsky

Biography

Konstantin Adashevsky was a Russian character actor with the Pushkin (Aleksandrinsky) Drama Theatre in Leningrad (St. Petersburg). He was born Konstantin Ignatevich Adashevsky on April 11, 1897, near Kalisz, Poland. His father, Ignaty Adashevsky, was Polish. The family moved to St. Petersburg, Russia, and there young Adashevsky caught the acting bug. He studied acting at the Davidov School of Russian Drama in St. Petersburg, graduating in 1925 as actor. From 1925-1987 he was a permanent member of the troupe of the Pushkin (Aleksandrinsky) Drama Theatre in Leningrad (St. Petersburg). There his stage partners were such remarkable actors as Yekaterina Korchagina-Aleksandrovskaya, Nikolay Cherkasov, Yuri Yuryev, Boris Babochkin, Nikolai Simonov, Vasiliy Merkurev, Illarion Pevtsov, Konstantin Skorobogatov, Yuriy Tolubeev, Aleksandr Borisov, Bruno Frejndlikh, Vladimir Chestnokov, Vladimir Erenberg, Leonid Vivyen, Nikolai Marton, Igor Gorbachyov, Olga Lebzak, Nina Mamaeva, Lidiya Shtykan, Nina Urgant, Galina Karelina, and other notable Russian actors. He was awarded the State Stalin's Prize of the USSR (1951), and was designated People's Artist of the USSR (1985). Konstantin Adashevsky died of a heart failure on June 1, 1987, and was laid to rest in Serafimovskoe cemetery in St. Petersburg (Leningrad), Russia.