Alexander
Verkhovsky

Alexander Verkhovsky (his real surname was Shishkin) was born in 1892 in Baku (Azerbadzhan), he died on July 10, 1962, in Ryazan, Russia.
Verkhovsky was a theatre director and Honoured Artist of Dagestan Autonomous Soviet Republic. He began his activity on the professional stage in the city of Kuibyshev (now Samara). He worked as a director and an actor for many years in major cities of the Soviet Union and was the theatre director of several provincial theatres.

In the 1930s, Alexander Verkhovsky studied directing craft in Moscow under the guidance of Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko. From 1931 to 1933, he led the troupe of the Kursk City Theatre.

He directed 21 performances, among them: «Tempo» and «Poem about the Axe» by Nikolai Pogodin, «More Sinned Against than Sinning» and «Enough Stupidity in Every Wise Man» by Alexander Ostrovsky, «Fear» by Alexander Afinogenov, «The Poet and the Tsar» and «The Death of Lermontov» by Nikolai Lerner, «The Lower Depths», and «Yegor Bulychov» by Maxim Gorky, «The Insulted and the Injured» by Fyodor Dostoevsky, «Last Decisive» by Vsevolod Vishnevsky.