Vladimir Tkhapsaev(1910-1981)
- Actor
Vladimir Tkhapsaev is a Soviet Ossetian theater and film actor. People's Artist of the USSR.
Tkhapsaev was born in Ardon, North Ossetia. He was early left without parents. At the age of 12, he became interested in theater after he once saw a production of E. Britaev's play "Two Sisters" on an amateur rural stage. As a young man, he worked on the construction of the first high-mountain hydroelectric power station in the North Caucasus, the Gizeldonskaya hydroelectric power station, then in the mines and processing plant of the Sadonsk lead-zinc plant. In the 30s he worked on the construction of Komsomolsk-on-Amur. Here his extraordinary stage talent was revealed for the first time.
Vladimir studied at the Krasnodar Road Construction College.
Returning home to North Ossetia, he became one of the activists of the youth propaganda Theater of Small Forms (Temaf) then operating in the republic. Since 1933, he studied at the studio at the Russian Theater in Ordzhonikidze (now Vladikavkaz). Since 1935 - actor of the North Ossetian Drama Theater (Ordzhonikidze). He performed a huge classical and Ossetian repertoire. He toured the Soviet Union, Europe, and Africa.
In 1964, during the celebration of the 400th anniversary of the birth of William Shakespeare at the Theater Royal in London, he was honored by Queen Elizabeth II as the world's best performer of the role of Othello. Thapsaev performed it in the Ossetian language as part of a troupe of actors from the world's leading theaters, invited to the capital of Great Britain to stage Shakespeare's tragedy.
Tkhapsaev was born in Ardon, North Ossetia. He was early left without parents. At the age of 12, he became interested in theater after he once saw a production of E. Britaev's play "Two Sisters" on an amateur rural stage. As a young man, he worked on the construction of the first high-mountain hydroelectric power station in the North Caucasus, the Gizeldonskaya hydroelectric power station, then in the mines and processing plant of the Sadonsk lead-zinc plant. In the 30s he worked on the construction of Komsomolsk-on-Amur. Here his extraordinary stage talent was revealed for the first time.
Vladimir studied at the Krasnodar Road Construction College.
Returning home to North Ossetia, he became one of the activists of the youth propaganda Theater of Small Forms (Temaf) then operating in the republic. Since 1933, he studied at the studio at the Russian Theater in Ordzhonikidze (now Vladikavkaz). Since 1935 - actor of the North Ossetian Drama Theater (Ordzhonikidze). He performed a huge classical and Ossetian repertoire. He toured the Soviet Union, Europe, and Africa.
In 1964, during the celebration of the 400th anniversary of the birth of William Shakespeare at the Theater Royal in London, he was honored by Queen Elizabeth II as the world's best performer of the role of Othello. Thapsaev performed it in the Ossetian language as part of a troupe of actors from the world's leading theaters, invited to the capital of Great Britain to stage Shakespeare's tragedy.
