Nikolai Yakovlevich Romanov is a Soviet theater and film actor, in most of the films he played small episodic roles. Despite this, the filmography of the artist is rich in diverse and interesting images, with which Nicholas coped well. In this article, we will talk more about the best roles of actor Nikolai Yakovlev.
"Property of the Republic"
The premiere of the adventure film took place in the spring of 1972.
The action of the picture returns the audience to the events taking place in the spring of 1918. It tells of Tarakanov, who runs the estate of Prince Tikhvin. With the participation and help of his former court fencing teacher Marquis and the street kid Keshka, he manages to steal a valuable collection of paintings and sculptures from an empty estate. In the hope of transporting the cockroaches stolen abroad, the Marquis and Keshka wander with the circus troupe, and they are pursued by the criminal investigator Makar Ovchinnikov.
In the film, Romanov Nikolai Yakovlevich played the role of a seller of weapons.
"The Train of Tomorrow"
This historical and revolutionary film was released in 1970.
As in the previous picture, the film tells about the events of the distant 1918 - a period of truly fierce struggle for the Brest Peace. Spectators are shown only two days from the life of the Soviet Union and Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, during which the most important event at that time took place - the transfer of the USSR government from Petrograd to the capital.
In February 1918, the Germans suddenly violated the ceasefire agreement and attacked Petrograd, after which the city began to fill with soldiers and officers who had fled from the front. All public transport is crammed with people in overcoats. Trains are literally taken by storm. In Petrograd, famine begins.
Late in the evening, March 9, 1918, all people's commissars receive a packet marked "Secret" with the following content: "Departure to Moscow will take place on March 10 this Sunday, at exactly ten o'clock in the evening from the Flower Site."
This train is the last and urgent. Exactly at this time departs from the platform and on the connecting tracks of the Nikolaev (today - October) railway.
In this picture, Romanov Nikolai Yakovlevich played the role of an employee of the Council of People's Commissars.
"Crime and Punishment"
The drama premiered on September 28, 1970.
This film, which is an adaptation of the famous classic novel of the same name by Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky, himself became a classic.
The plot of the novel revolves around a young man tormented by a difficult life and who wants everything from this life all at once. For the sake of simple profit, he is even ready to go for the murder: at that time he doesn’t even know what the punishment will be ... The film shows the struggle of the ideological criminal and investigator Porfiry Petrovich performed by such talented Soviet actors as G. Taratorkin and I. Smoktunovsky.
In this film, Romanov Nikolai Yakovlevich played the role of an official.
The Brothers Karamazov
The premiere of the melodrama took place on January 10, 1969.
This picture, like the previous one, is an adaptation, only the works of a completely different genre - a thriller novel written by the same Dostoevsky. This work was the last in the literary career of Fedor Mikhailovich.
This work raises serious philosophical questions that have not been answered to this day. Here, discussions are written about the essence of man, about the evil and the origins of good, about how these principles are related in the soul of everyone on Earth, in the world in which a person lives.
This work was the last not only for Dostoevsky - also after the adaptation of this work, the classic of Soviet cinema Ivan Alexandrovich Pyryev ended his career as a director.
In this picture, Romanov Nikolai Yakovlevich played a cameo role.