Georgy Tovstonogov

Georgy Tovstonogov
Born
Georgy Aleksandrovich Tovstonogov

(1915-09-28)28 September 1915
Died23 May 1989(1989-05-23) (aged 73)
OccupationTheatre director
Years active1933–1989

Georgy Aleksandrovich Tovstonogov (Russian: Георгий Александрович Товстоногов, 28 September [O.S. 15 September] 1915 – 23 May 1989) was a Russian-Georgian theatre director.

He was the leader of the Gorky Bolshoi Drama Theater which was renamed after him in 1992.