Mikhail Rostovtsev (actor)

Rostovtsev in 1936

Mikhail Antonovich Rostovtsev (Russian: Михаил Антонович Ростовцев; real name Mendel Leibovich Ershler, Russian: Мендель Лейбович Эршлер; 22 October 1872, Taganrog – 19 April 1948, Moscow) was a Russian and Soviet bass, opera and operetta singer and actor. He was made an Honored Artist of the Republic (1927) and an Honored Art Worker of the RSFSR (1936).