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name: "Vladimir Barsky"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/vladimir-barsky"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "15 March 1866"
died: "24 January 1936"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-16T11:31:06.810992+00:00"
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# Vladimir Barsky

Actor. Born 15 March 1866 in Moscow, Russian Empire. Died 24 January 1936.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 15 March 1866, Moscow, Russian Empire
- **Died:** 24 January 1936
- **Also known as:** Vladimir Grigorievich Barsky, Владимир Григорьевич Барский, Vladimir Barskiy, В. Барский, В. Г. Барский

## Biography

Vladimir Grigorievich Barsky (also credited as Vladimir Barskiy) was a Russian and Soviet film director, screenwriter and actor. Born in Moscow in 1866, he trained at the Moscow Real School and the Imperial Moscow Technical School before beginning a career in theatre in 1892. He worked as a director and actor in theatres in Ivanovo-Voznesensk from 1899 to 1917 and at the People's House in Tiflis from 1917 to 1921.

From 1921 he held senior roles at Goskinprom of Georgia and later at studios including Sovkino, Mezhrabpomfilm, Uzbekkino and Turkmenfilm, contributing to the development of Georgian, Turkmen and Uzbek cinema. He collaborated on a series of films about Georgia's revolutionary past, of which two were completed: *Nightmares of the Past* (1925) and *At the Cost of Thousands* (1925). He is also known for his acting role as Commander Golikov in Sergei Eisenstein's *Battleship Potemkin* (1925). Barsky died in Moscow in 1936.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, ru.wikipedia.org, fr.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Battleship Potemkin* (1925), Fi1m 88, as Commander Golikov — [page](https://film.one/film/battleship-potemkin.md)

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