| Alexey Pokrovsky | |
| Birth Name: | Alexey Nikolayevich Pokrovsky |
| Birth Date: | 1 March 1924 |
| Death Place: | Moscow, Russia |
| Occupation: | actor, singer |
| Yearsactive: | 1945–2009 |
Alexey Nikolayevich Pokrovsky (ru|link=no|Алексе́й Никола́евич Покро́вский; March 1, 1924 – August 30, 2009) was an actor and singer, People's Artist of the RSFSR (1981).[1]
In 1945 he was accepted into the troupe of the Moscow Art Theater. In 1977 he left the theatre because of divergences in his views with Oleg Yefremov.[2]
From the end of the 1940s he appeared in films, including in the films The Star (1953) and True Friends (1954).[1]
He became well known as a performer of songs and romances. In the 1960s and 1980s, he sang 12 musical and poetic compositions on television,[3] in which the best poems and songs of the era were presented in the interpretation of the artist, who accompanied himself on a small Viennese seven-string Russian guitar. Laureate of the festivals Pesnya goda 1974 and 1975.[4]
He died on August 30, 2009.[1] He was buried in Moscow at the Vagankovskoye Cemetery (plot 26).[5]