Aleksandar Vereščagin

Alexander Aleksandrovič Vereščagin (Moscow, February 25, 1885 - October 23, 1962, Chicago) was a Russian director, actor and theater pedagogue. As a Russian emigrant, he worked on the territory of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. He is one of the most significant and versatile Russian emigrants who worked on the art scene of the Kingdom of SHS/Yugoslavia. He graduated from the Nikolaev Academy of Engineering (1905) at the same time as the Drama Academy in Petrograd (1906). He acted in theaters in Pskov, Petrograd, Moscow and Kiev. For a time he stayed in Paris, where he starred in the films Death of a Soldier, Woe to the Trustees, Church of the Virgin Mary, The Railroad Supervisor's Daughter, Poltava. He participated in the First World War, and from 1918 he was the director of the Russian Theater in Batum in the Caucasus. He came to the Kingdom of SHS in 1919. He was a director at the National Theater in Belgrade, and then worked in theaters in Skopje, Sarajevo, Zagreb, Novi Sad, Split, Cet...