Vyacheslav Nevinnyy

Vyacheslav Nevinny was a Russian actor of Moscow Art Theatre (MKhAT). He was born Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Nevinny on November 30, 1934, in Tula, Russia, Soviet Union (now Tula, Russia). Young Nevinny was fond of theatre, he was active in amateur drama club at Palace of Pioneers in Tula, and made his stage debut with Tula Theatre. From 1955 - 1959 he studied acting under Viktor Stanitsyn at Moscow Art Theatre School of Acting, graduating in 1959 as an actor. In 1960 he made his film debut in Ispytatelnyy srok (1960) by director Vladimir Gerasimov. From 1959-2009 Vyacheslav Nevinny was a permanent member of the troupe at Moscow Art Theatre (MKhAT). There his stage partners were such renown Russian actors as Anatoli Ktorov, Olga Androvskaya, Angelina Stepanova, Nikolay Khmelyov, Mikhail Yanshin, Aleksey Gribov, Boris Livanov, Mikhail Kedrov, Mark Prudkin, Anastasiya Georgievskaya, Vasili Toporkov, Mikhail Bolduman, Pavel Massalsky, and the next generation of MKhAT actors - Oleg Efremov, Tatyana Doronina, Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy, Oleg Tabakov, Kristina Babushkina, Alla Pokrovskaya, Kira Golovko, Iya Savvina, Nina Gulyaeva, Elena Panova, Darya Moroz, Olga Litvinova, Natalya Rogozhkina, Ekaterina Semyonova, Olga Yakovleva, Anastasiya Voznesenskaya, Irina Miroshnichenko, Evgeniya Dobrovolskaya, Andrey Myagkov, Stanislav Lyubshin, Vladimir Kashpur, Viktor Sergachyov, Evgeniy Kindinov, Vladimir Krasnov, Dmitriy Nazarov, Sergey Sazontev, Avangard Leontev, Igor Vasilev, Igor Vernik, Sergei Sosnovsky, Mikhail Porechenkov, Konstantin Khabenskiy, Valeri Khlevinsky, Valeriy Troshin, Mikhail Trukhin, Eduard Chekmazov, Aleksey Kravchenko, Aleksei Agapov, and Evgeniy Mironov among others. His best known stage appearances include his roles in such classic plays as Nikolay Gogol's Revizor (aka.. Inspector-General) and in Anton Chekhov's plays: Ivanov, Chaika (aka.. The Seagull), Dyadya Vanya (aka.. Uncle Vanya), and Vishnevy sad (aka.. The Cherry Orchard). Vyacheslav Nevinny was designated People's Actor of the USSR, and received a congratulatory note from the Russian president. He was suffering from diabetes with complications causing him amputation of both legs. However, Nevinny was supported by his family as well as by his fellow actors, such as Aleksandr Kalyagin and Sergey Yurskiy among many others. Nevinny was married to actress Nina Gulyaeva, their son, Vyacheslav Nevinnyy is also an actor at Moscow Art Theatre. He died at his home in Moscow on May 31, 2009, of complications related to diabetes, and was laid to rest in Troekurovskoe Cemetery in Moscow, Russia.