Theatre director, writer, and teacher, born in Ozurgety, Russia. Co-founder with Stanislavsky of the Moscow Art Theatre, he became sole director following the latter's death in 1938. Among his most notable productions were The Brothers Karamazov (1910) and Nikolai Stavrogin (1913). After 1919, his interest in opera led to some of his most original work as a director.
Vladimir Ivanovich Nemirovich-Danchenko (Владимир Иванович Немирович-Данченко in Russian) (December 11(23), 1858 - April 25, 1943, Moscow) was a Russian theatre director, writer, pedagogue, and playwright, who co-founded the Moscow Art Theatre with his more famous colleague, Konstantin Stanislavsky, in 1898.
In 1919 he established the Musical Theatre of the Moscow Art Theatre, which was reformed into the Nemirovich-Danchenko Musical Theatre in 1926. After Stanislavsky's withdrawal from the theatre, Nemirovich-Danchenko staged an acclaimed version of Anna Karenina (1937) with Alla Tarasova in the title role. In 1943 Nemirovich-Danchenko established the Moscow Art Theatre School, which continues to thrive to this day.
Nemirovich-Danchenko was one of the very first recipients of the title of People's Artist of the USSR in 1936.
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