Nikolai Tarasov

Tarasov's tomb

Nikolai Lazarevich Tarasov (Armenian: Նիկողայոս Ղազարոսեան Թորոսեան, 1882, Moscow - October, 1910, Moscow) was an Armenian-Russian oil-industrialist and dandy, who was a devotee of the theatre.[1][2]

He was born as Nikoghayos Torosian in a family of Armenian traders from Armavir.[3] From 1906 he financially supported Moscow Art Theatre and became a member of theatre's direction. In 1908, along with his friend Nikita Balieff, he co-founded the Moscow Bat theatre (La Chauve-Souris),[4] to organise comedy evenings for members of the Arts Theatre.

He committed suicide in 1910. Tarasov's tomb at the Moscow Armenian Cemetery is a modernist style work by sculptor Nikolai Andreev.

References

  1. ↑ Тарасов Николай Лазаревич (1882—1910)
  2. ↑ «Почитай отца и мать твоих», глава из книги Тарасов А. Миллионер: Исповедь первого капиталиста новой России, М., Вагриус, 2004, ISBN 5-475-00046-8
  3. ↑ Владимир Седов Особняк Тарасова в Москве
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