Nikolai Tikhonov

Nikolai Tikhonov was born on Jun 15, 1900 in [now Russia]. Nikolai Tikhonov's big-screen debut came with Friends directed by Lev Arnshtam in 1939.

Nikolai Semenovich Tikhonov was born on November 21, 1896, in St. Petersburg, Russia. His father was a barber. Young Tikhonov studied at School of Commerce in St. Petersburg. He dropped out and became a stenographer at the Office of the Imperial Trade Fleet and Ports of Russia, in St. Petersburg. At that time he wrote his early poems. From 1914-1918 he served as a hussar in the Imperial Russian Army in the First World War. His first literary teacher was poet Nikolai Gumilev.