Edvard Radzinsky

Edvard Radzinsky is exactly the kind of figure I gravitate toward. Born in Moscow in 1936 and trained in historical archives, he turned scholarship into theater, writing more than forty history books that ordinary Russian readers actually devoured. That gift, making Stalin or the last Tsar feel like living drama rather than dry record, is rarer than people admit. He hosted television, earned a Silver Play Button, and stayed creatively alive into his late eighties. I believe history is human drama before it is data, and Radzinsky has spent a lifetime proving that. I admire him for it.

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Name (English)

Edvard Radzinsky

Name (Japanese)

エドワード・ラジンスキー

Reading

えどわーど・らじんすきー

Born

September 23, 1936 (age 90)

Origin

Moscow, Soviet Union

Occupation

actor / screenwriter / playwright / writer / presenter

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Rat

Awards & achievements

• 2006 Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", 4th class
• Silver Play Button
• TEFI
• Figaro Award

• Official sitehttps://radzinski.ru
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/edvard_radzinsky/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edvard%20Radzinsky
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A8%E3%83%89%E3%83%AF%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A9%E3%82%B8%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B9%E3%82%AD%E3%83%BC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q283859

Tags

• actor
• screenwriter
• playwright

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.