sentences:  Young Boris Babochkin and his brother were fond of acting and were involved in amateur theatre productions in Saratov.At age 14 Boris joined the Red Army and served for one year in the same front on Volga and the Urals with the legendary commander Chapayev, whom he would later portray, although they never met.In 1920 Babochkin entered a local drama school in Saratov, but he soon dropped out and moved to Moscow to pursue an acting career.