Alexander Ivanovich Yuzhin (1857-1927) was a stage name of the Georgian

Georgia (country)

Georgia is a sovereign state in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded to the west by the Black Sea, to the north by Russia, to the southwest by Turkey, to the south by Armenia, and to the southeast by Azerbaijan. The capital of...

 Prince Sumbatov (Sumbatashvili), who dominated the Malyi Theatre of Moscow

Moscow

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 at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. He was best known for the Romantical parts in the dramas by Schiller and Victor Hugo

Victor Hugo

Victor-Marie Hugo was a Frenchpoet, playwright, novelist, essayist, visual artist, statesman, human rights activist and exponent of the Romantic movement in France....

 but also penned a number of plays himself. Yuzhin lived on to become one of the first "People's Artists of the Republic

People's Artist of the USSR

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" in 1922.