Leonid Topchiev

Leonid Topchiev (9 January 1930 - 24 June 2021) was a Soviet stage and film actor. In 1958 he received a nomination for the Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or.  This was for his portrayal of Prince Ivan of Moscow the third in the movie Walking for Three Seas.  He  was also a theater director, working as the director of the Vologda Drama Theatre and the Yaroslavl State Theatre of Drama.

He received the Medal of the Order of Merit to the Fatherland II Stepani in 2004.  He was 91 when he died.

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Category:Soviet actors
Category:1930 births
Category:2021 deaths