Anatoli Romashin (1931 - 2000) - Soviet and Russian film and theater actor, director. Winner of USSR State Prize (1977). People's Artist of the RSFSR (1982).

Biographie

Anatoli Romashin was born in Leningrad on 1 January 1931. His father was a Russian, mother was an Estonian. His brother Vladimir (1932-2012) was an opera singer.
He graduated from the Moscow Art Theatre School (course of Victor Stanitsyn) in 1959. Since 1959 - an actor Mayakovsky Theatre.

The actor became widely recognized after the release of the 1974 Elem Klimov's film Agony, where Romashin played the role of Nicholas II.

In recent years, he played in the Moscow Luna Theater under the directorship of Sergei Prokhanov.

According to critics, Romashin was the perfect actor for the role of a Russian intelligent. His artistic career included a lot of such roles.

He was killed in an accident on the evening of August 8, 2000 near the town of Pushkino, Moscow region - the actor was impaled by a huge old pine, that he was trying to chainsaw on his dacha. He was buried on the Vagankovo Cemetery. Six months later the dacha was destroyed by fire.