Day of the day: Nikolai Akimov
On April 16, 1901, theater director Nikolai Akimov was born. Personal business Nikolai Pavlovich Akimov (1901 - 1968) was born in Kharkov in the family of a railway employee. When he turned nine years old, his father got a place in the board of the Moscow Vindavo-Rybinsky Railway, and the family moved first to Tsarskoye Selo, and then to St. Petersburg. Parents wanted the son to receive an engineering profession, but Nikolai Akimov from childhood was attracted to drawing.